Concussion News

HeadFirst Sports Injury and Concussion Care has been advocating a “Mind Your Head” theme for youth athletes since it was established in 2012.

To have children crash their heads into fixed objects is not a rationale or appropriate form of playing sports. Additionally, football helmets have done little to protect ...

HeadFirst CEO and Medical Director Dr. Robert G. Graw, Jr., M.D., agrees that CT imaging is not usually needed when head injuries are properly evaluated. "We can confirm that radiation damange from CT scans can be avoided. Studies done at HeadFirst of children who have suffered a head injury ...

Robert G. Graw, Jr., M.D., founder and medical director of HeadFirst Sports Injury and Concussion Care, one of the largest concussion clinics in the country, is offering his response to this week’s announcement about U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a blood test to help ...

Risk factors for concussion are plentiful—playing soccer, playing football, having a prior concussion, being female. In an addition to the scientific to-do list, a new report is calling for researchers and to pay attention to something else that seems to make concussions more likely: learning disabilities.

Researchers first keyed ...