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.
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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.
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Brain injuries have overtaken a broken nose, jaw and fractured ankles as the most common injury requiring hospital admission among league and union players.
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New research points to small, repetitive blows damaging rugby players’ brains, but boxing established this decades ago
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Usually people recover from concussions in a few days, or weeks at most. But 1-10% will still have symptoms three months later.
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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!
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A simple blood test or scan could give a definitive all-clear for concussed players to return to the field without risking permanent injury from another hit.
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Young people who had been hit in the head had heightened risks for physical and psychological difficulties as adults, though most were fine.
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• Greg Smith is director of Wintec's centre for sport science and human performance director. He played hooker for the Chiefs, has coached Waikato and played test rugby for Fiji - The Country
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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.
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Most NFL fans know head injuries are a cause for concern in the sport. But the new film "Concussion," starring Will Smith, is set to spread that message.
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‘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
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Five former players tell of the toll rugby league injuries continue to take on their lives.
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IF last Sunday night’s Channel 7 interview with Ian Roberts didn’t change your opinion on the impact of concussions and what direction the NRL need to head to ensure player welfare, then you have no place in the modern game.
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How to keep high school kids with concussions on the bench
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Soccer players who repeatedly strike the ball with their heads may be causing measurable damage to their brains, even if they never suffer a concussion , according to a study published Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Assn.
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A MELBOURNE suburban football team has volunteered for a world-first concussion study.
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Helmets and mouth guards don't protect against concussions, says an international group of experts
Mouthguards may not protect against concussions but they sure protect the teeth!
I think this quote from the article is very important:
"New advice in the Consensus states that children should not return to the field to play on the same day they experience a potential concussion, an acknowledgment that it may take longer for kids to recuperate from blows to the head than adults because their neural connections are still developing."
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Penn State may be the first institution to use virtual reality to protect student athletes from the very real consequences of concussions. University researchers in kinesiology, information technology and sports medicine are using the technology to investigate cognitive changes beyond the limits of typical diagnostic tests.
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Having a concussion may not be the only indicator of brain damage among football players.
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Greg Williams says he has gone public with his revelations of brain damage in a bid to help footballers of all ages.
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A STAR American footballer who committed suicide has been found to have had a degenerative brain disease, fuelling debate about the impact on athletes of repeated head knocks.
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A small study of professional soccer players found that even those who have never experienced a concussion still have changes in the white matter of their brains, likely from routine and unprotected headers.
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Tom Brady is the gifted quarterback of the New England Patriots, widely regarded (even by Jets’ fans) as one of the best ever at his position. But when he was a kid in the late 1980s and early '90s, his father Tom Sr.
PM - While it is about American football, the science behind the reasons why kids should not play tackle football sound correct.
Should tackle football have an age requirement?
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Today marks the end of the Herald 's special report into the cost of concussion and contact sports, particularly rugby, our national sport. The issue does not end here, however.
PM- nice graphic at the bottom of this article on the growth of the lock position in rugby union in NZ.
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If a massive cultural shift is what is needed to tackle sport's concussion crisis, then it's not just up to coaches and administrators to make that happen.