What can you do to protect, identify and treat a concussion? Scientist Julie Stamm, author of the book “The Brain on Youth Sports,” offers five tips to raise awareness.
Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
Physical and Mental Health - Exercise, Fitness and Activity
Healthy body, healthy mind! Physical Exercise, Fitness, Running, Jogging, Gym and Activity. Twitter Hashtag: #GymEd Curated by Peter Mellow |
Rescooped by Peter Mellow from Hospitals and Healthcare |
What can you do to protect, identify and treat a concussion? Scientist Julie Stamm, author of the book “The Brain on Youth Sports,” offers five tips to raise awareness.
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
When Jackie Hughes suffered yet another concussion in a Muay Thai bout, she started rethinking the risks. It led her to a new combat sport she says is safer and allows her to take on — and beat — the men.
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
Two head injuries suffered by quarterback Tua Tagovailoa this year have put the spotlight on concussions.
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
While much of the inquiry into concussions and repeated head trauma in sport will focus on professional players and leagues, local teams and young players should also look out for the findings.
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
A series of neurological tests led specialists to conclude that repeated head knocks affected how the otherwise healthy 30-year-old went about her everyday life.
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
Brain injuries have overtaken a broken nose, jaw and fractured ankles as the most common injury requiring hospital admission among league and union players.
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
New research points to small, repetitive blows damaging rugby players’ brains, but boxing established this decades ago
Rescooped by Peter Mellow from eParenting and Parenting in the 21st Century |
"Tackling is dangerous. There's no safe way to do it. There are fair ways to do it, but there's no safe way to bring another man - or woman - to the ground and stop their momentum at the same time."
Dr Nowinski said there was no reason for children to play adult forms of any contact sport. "You just don't start hitting children in the head," he said. "When they're young, you don't play the adult, dangerous version of the game. What's the point? We're crazy to have children who are not getting paid and don't even understand what CTE means playing by the same rules as adults.
As a parent, you have to think twice about letting your child play heavy contact sports like AFL, Rugby (either code) or football. At least in basketball there is no tackling.
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
People with a history of concussion are more than twice as likely to develop a neurological disease, according to a new study that gathered the largest ever data set on the syndrome in the UK
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
Her father is Australia’s best known health journalist, her brother one of Washington’s fastest-rising media stars. But Anna Swan showed grit beyond them both in the aftermath of a catastrophic accident on a family holiday to Italy.
Great story. Take home message: Always wear a helmet when cycling! Prevention is better than cure.
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
Historical research and testimony linking brain injuries with the game shows that this train of thought is nothing new
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
The confronting findings of Macquarie University's National Repetitive Head Trauma Initiative lay bare the devastating impact of repeated concussion in sport.
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
As the number of ex-footballers diagnosed with dementia grows, the debate surrounding the sport's worrying relationship with degenerative brain disease intensifies.
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
Athletes with concussions are told to give up activity, screens and school for weeks. Now experts think a little more activity helps the brain heal.
The brain benefits from movement and exercise after concussion. It may not be such a good idea to follow medical advice advocating rest and giving up activities!
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
Kiwi scientists have published another study exploring links between concussions suffered while playing rugby and long-term impacts on brain function. - New Zealand Herald
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
The 2016 State of Origin rugby league competition is over for another year and the focus has shifted to off-field events with claims for compensation for brain injury.
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
The Herald has uncovered a spate of dementia cases among rugby legends, raising the ugly possibility that head injuries suffered during their playing days have contributed to the disease.
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
Mild traumatic brain injuries are common, yet tracking how a person is healing is still a patchwork of tests that aren’t always reliable. A new blood test might change that.
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
Weeks after suffering what would be the last concussion of an athletic career filled with them, the towering, bearded Kosta Karageorge left his Columbus, Ohio, apartment in the middle of a frigid night. The college wrestler and football player had been distraught, his family said, reeling from his last head injury. At 1:30am, shortly before disappearing into the night, he shot off a final note to his mother, Susan.
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
‘Dings,’ ‘bell-ringers’ ... regardless of what they’re called, a new Harvard study reveals that potential concussions are being ignored at the line of scrimmage
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
FIFA's Medical Committee proposes stopping games for 3 minute intervals to assess head trauma
Will this proposal be implemented or will the ball be kicked down the field?
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
Dr Michael Grey, a motor neuro-science expert at the University of Birmingham, says the impact of the brain against the skull causes damage.
Rescooped by Peter Mellow from eParenting and Parenting in the 21st Century |
Former rugby league player Ian Roberts has predicted the ‘‘end of contact sport’’ after being diagnosed with brain damage he believes is the result of being knocked out up to a dozen times in his playing career.
‘‘It’s quite possibly the beginning of the end of contact sport, like hard contact sport,’’ Roberts said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/ian-roberts-says-he-has-brain-damage-20140309-34ez8.html#ixzz2vVVMsCpU
Pas très étonnant.... Et bien évidemment pas spécifique au rugby !
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
The brain is an incredibly important organ. You probably don't need reminding of this.
Scooped by Peter Mellow |
Research of unprecedented depth has revealed most ex-footballers remain affected by battle wounds.