Recently, a study showed that most high school athletes would do whatever it takes to get back on the field after a concussion, no matter what doctors say. Most shockingly, the majority of those with that stance also showed a fairly good knowledge of the dangers of concussions. We will know if Rowan Stringer thought [...]
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NFL Player Donates Brain Injury Sensor To High School
More and more recent research shows us that preventing concussions is simply not possible, but we can identify the situations that make brain injury more likely to have happened. Specifically, we can pinpoint just how hard of a hit is too hard. Some NFL players know this more than others. While some players still downplay [...]
New Surgery Helps TBI Patients Recover From Long-Term Headaches
Marianna Consiglio was just 12 when a lacrosse ball flung into her head left Marianna with a severe concussion which took over a year and a half to recover from. Three years after that, she was still left with debilitating headaches, which no treatment seemed to help. Four years after her brain injury, Marianna’s mother [...]
See How Helmets Are Tested For TBI Prevention
By now, everyone interested in sports-based brain injuries is well aware of the contentious debate about the effectiveness of helmets in preventing TBI. While big organizations and decreasing numbers of researchers argue that helmets can protect players from traumatic brain injury, more and more scientists are arguing that helmets only protect against skull injuries, not [...]
Soldiers’ Art Shows What TBI Feels Like
Sometimes there are feelings and experiences that simply cannot be put into words. Traumatic brain injury is certainly one of those experiences, even though those of us in the field try every day to convey the experience in our attempts to spread awareness. As part of 60 Minutes’ recent exposé into the plight of our [...]
Are The Eyes The Key To Diagnosing Brain Injury
In the search for better diagnosis of traumatic brain injury, researchers have looked everywhere. They have looked at brains with every type of scan they have, investigated biomarkers in the blood, and they’ve even considered checking the mouth for indicators of a brain injury. It turns out, the indicator they may be looking for may [...]
The U.S. Military Was Sending Concussed Soldiers Back To War
While the U.S. military has recently lept into traumatic brain injury research and awareness in the wake of the massive numbers of soldiers returning home with TBI, they haven’t always been so proactive. Until very recently, traumatic brain injury has been completely neglected by armed forces health experts as an invisible, and therefore unimportant, injury. [...]
Riddell Ignored Warning About Concussion Risks
In the conversation surrounding the NFL and Riddell’s brain injury litigation, there seem to be two camps of extremists. There are those that stand behind the mantra “they knew what they were signing up for” and ignore the possibility that the league and game are putting players in unnecessary danger, and then there are those [...]
Most High School Athletes Won’t Report Concussion Symptoms
It has long been understood that self-reporting is a terrible diagnostic method for brain injury, but until recently there were few other ways to go about identifying possible brain injuries. For athletes, the biggest reason self-reporting doesn’t work as a diagnostic method is simply that players would rather stay in the game than report a possible injury. According to [...]
Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Boxing, Bombs, and Brain Injury
Two weeks after the tragic blasts in Boston that shook the world, we still know very little about the motivation behind the attacks. We have learned much about the two brothers believed to have planned and followed through on the bombing, but we know little more than their ethnicity (Chechnyan), the story of the older [...]
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