Category: concussion
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Take a Concussion Test Before Your Concussion
If you participate in a sport where collisions happen frequently, you might want to take a concussion test now. I’m not just talking about sports like football and boxing where hitting is the point of the game. In the NCAA, more concussions are reported in women’s soccer than in men’s football. It’s also one of…
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Can Soccer Headgear Reduce Brain Injuries?
As a 3-year-old, Patrick Grange reportedly loved to toss a soccer ball into the air and practice heading it into a goal. Grange specialized in the skill throughout high school, college and a semi-professional career. That career ended when he died from brain damage at age 29. Could soccer headgear have saved his life? Not…
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Concussions in Hockey May Cause Brain Damage
A lot of hockey players accept that their sports includes a few blows to the head. Pros are famous for refusing to wear mouth guards. Now a new study suggests what this punishment may be doing to players’ brains. This study focused on children, but if you’re a grown-up hockey player, it seems likely some…
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Martial Arts Linked to Brain Damage
I’ve written a lot about how athletes can avoid injury. So far, I’ve said nothing about those sports where harm is the goal. Today a new study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine looks at boxing and mixed martial arts and comes to an unsurprising conclusion: The more you fight, the more you hurt…
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Pee Wee Football Hits Linked to Memory Loss
If your preteen wants to play American football, talk to some pros who started that early. Those who got into the sport before age 12 struggle on memory tests, a new study shows. Pee wee football hits can be so rough they have generated a genre on YouTube, including this collection of clips by “Marco…
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Reduce Your Sports Brain Injury Risk
By Laird Harrison Without even knowing it, you could have a sports brain injury. The death of Kosta Karageorge has once again focused attention on concussions in U.S. football. And it should. But just because you don’t play football, or haven’t had a concussion, doesn’t mean you’re safe.
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Do Sports Injury Genes Determine Your Fitness?
Sports injury genes could change your future. Imagine this scenario. You try to register for your hockey team as you do every year. But the league has a new policy: All players must report to a health center to get their mouths swabbed. A couple of days later, you get a call. “You’re positive for…
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Recognize Concussion Symptoms
Recognizing concussion symptoms may save your life. For generations, athletes took blows to the head and kept right on playing. It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of the game. Coaches, teammates and fans may depend on you. But getting hit again and again can permanently damage your brain. It can even kill…
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English Rugby Tightens Concussion Rules
Professional English rugby players will get concussion tests on the sidelines if they show signs of a head injury, under a new policy Premiership Rugby reports. A joint venture between Premiership Rugby, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and the Rugby Players Association (RPA) has produced a new set of processes designed to optimise the treatment…
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Update: Soccer Leaders Institute Concussion Rule
UPDATE: Referees may stop soccer matches for up to three minutes while the team doctor decides if a player can stay in the game in European competitions, wire services are reported on Thursday. Gianni Infantino, the secretary general of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), said the policy was approved by the organization’s executive committee…
