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 ...

One evening in April, driving home from a university function, I was stopped in freeway traffic caused by roadworks somewhere up ahead when I felt a massive jolt. The back of my head hit the headrest, then my head lurched forward and I felt something hit the inside of my ...

New laws that require better reporting and monitoring of concussions for high school athletes appear to be working to reduce the number of traumatic brain injuries that young players suffer, according to a study co-authored by a University of Colorado researcher.

The study found that the rates at which young ...

It’s clear what happens during a concussion: First, there’s a violent collision that twists the brain inside of the skull. That sends the brain’s neurons into chaos, often leaving the victim confused, dizzy and with blurred vision.

More difficult to understand is how quickly the brain begins ...

WASHINGTON -- Concussions were "grossly" underdiagnosed among children presenting to a Level 1 trauma center's pediatric emergency department, according to a study presented here.

The investigators, with the New Jersey Medical School's Department of Emergency Medicine in Newark, concluded that providers need to be better educated about recognizing traumatic ...

(Reuters Health) - With passage of laws requiring U.S. high schools to report young athletes’ concussions, more of these head injuries are being reported – but the rate of repeat concussions has gone down, a new study shows.

Between 2009 and 2014, all 50 states and the District of Columbia passed ...

Compared with other medical science, concussion studies are so relatively new that trends and tendencies are still up for debate.

That includes this premise referenced at an Ottawa concussion symposium: are girls more prone to concussions than boys? And why do girls tend to take longer to recover from concussion ...

A tool to help measure concussion patients’ responses in driving situations is helping to generate data that determines when it’s safe for those patients to get back behind the wheel.

The Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) partnered with DriveSafety in Salt Lake City, Utah to develop ...

Right around this time of year, our kids start banging heads again, gearing up for the 2017 football, soccer and cheerleading seasons. With that, New Jersey physicians hope you, and coaches, know the signs of a possible concussion and how to react.

“The vast majority of concussions in children and ...

Almost five years ago, soon after the suicide of linebacker Junior Seau, the NFL announced it was donating $30 million to the National Institutes of Health for brain research. At the end of August, it appears that partnership will expire, with $16 million of the money still unspent.

"NIH officials ...

Gina Mazany grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. And that's where she had her first fight.

"It was right after I turned 18," she recalls.

A local bar had a boxing ring, and Mazany decided to give it a shot. Her opponent was an older woman with a "mom haircut ...

With the issue of concussions becoming a hot topic in recent years, a conference was held Downtown (Jacksonville, Fla.) on Sunday, where hundreds of sports and health professionals were on hand to raise awareness.

The American Academy of Neurology Sports Concussion Conference went beyond medical professionals. Athletic trainers, coaches and ...

Until very recently, the widespread recommendation by the medical community to patients who had suffered a concussion was simple and straightforward: rest, rest and more rest. The trauma that the brain sustains during a concussion can be from linear forces (like when the brain is forcefully pushed up against the ...

While concussion awareness has improved over the past decade, understanding the nuances of these sports injuries, their severity, symptoms, and treatment, is still a work in progress. In the June 21 issue of Neuron, UCLA neurologists and neurotraumatologists review the science of concussions and outline several areas where neuroscience and ...