Sentences with phrase «about concussions on»

It would require schools to post information about concussions on school grounds and on school websites.

Alan Cabasso, M.D. will speak about concussions on Thursday, October 8, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Lance Auditorium.

Have a look at information about concussion on the Raising Children Network site http://raisingchildren.net.au/articles/concussion.html

Not exact matches

You can read the whole SI roundtable — which goes on to talk about other social and ethical issues surrounding the sport like concussions and continued instances of domestic violence among players — here.

after suffering from concussion, and Wenger could have a real defensive crisis on his hands — hardly the best time when we are about to face the second - highest scorers in the Premier League with 85 goals.

Patriots fans don't have to worry about him getting a concussion on a play like this anytime soon.

However, when athletes were educated on what a concussion is defined as, about 45 percent of them admit to having one in the past year.

Might want to think about enforcing a concussion protocol on yourself for the next game?

Knowing the facts about concussion and taking the proper steps to treatment when you're injured will get you back on the field faster.

Knowing the facts about concussions and taking the proper steps to treatment when you're injured will get you back on the field faster.

In reading reports about how the concussion suffered by San Francisco 49er Alex Smith was handled, or, in the view of many, including Wise, mishandled, I was particularly struck by remarks attributed to Coach Jim Harbaugh as to why he allowed his quarterback Alex Smith to take six more snaps (ending, amazingly, in a touchdown pass) after admitting that he was experiencing blurred vision from a head - rattling hit on a quarterback sneak.

, I am finally back at my desk trying to make sense of it all, including catching up on everything that has been written about the Aspen Institute roundtable and on reports about the way in which the concussions suffered by three NFL quarterbacks on Sunday were handled.

My reaction was one of sadness, frustration, and worry: sadness that a young athlete simply assumed that he had CTE as a result of a single concussion and considered it to be a death sentence; frustration that, despite concerted efforts by researchers and clinicians, along with some in the media, to set the record straight on CTE, the prevailing media narrative continues to be that concussions or repetitive subconcussive blows «cause» chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), that CTE «causes» former athletes to commit suicide, and that such causal links are proven scientific fact (they're not); and, finally, worry: concern about the consequences of the football = CTE and CTE = suicide memes in the real world.

She pointed to one patient, a high school athlete, who had clearly recovered from his concussion - to the point that he was performing in the superior range on neuropsychological testing and getting As in school - who was nevertheless so worried, anxious, and paranoid about hurting his head again that he thought he'd suffered another concussion when he happened to turn his head quickly from side to side!

Fortunately, as result of my first - hand experience, working closely the past four football seasons (on many football fields) with six different sensor manufacturers, the high school football program in Newcastle, and, most recently, the youth football program in Grand Prairie, TX, and from covering the concussion beat, along with a team of experts and staff journalists, for the past fifteen years, I believe MomsTEAM and I are in a unique position to explain just what impact sensors are all about.

As someone who is usually in the position of moderating a discussion of concussions or giving a keynote address at a conference or convention on how to keep young athletes safe, and given the deep knowledge I have on the subject as a result of MomsTEAM's work as the «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, I have to admit I found myself in the somewhat unique position of knowing nearly as much about concussions as some of the presenters.

Here you will find articles about information on the latest research about the long - term effects of concussion on an athlete's cognitive function, articles on whether the new state concussion safety laws are increasing concussion safety, advice on the academic accomodations concussed student - athletes often need when they return to the classroom, and about the latest in concussion research.

While it would have nice to have a medical doctor, perhaps a pediatrician with a focus on concussions, to speak to an audience who mostly write about and for moms, both Gioia and Pieroth gave informative talks in the short time they had.

[1 - 9] As a 2013 research paper [7] and a number of other recent studies [12 - 15] show, education alone (or at least that which focuses on educating athletes about the signs and symptoms of concussion and not changing attitudes about reporting behavior) does not appear capable of solving the problem, because the reasons for under - reporting are largely cultural, [2,3,9,10, 12 - 15] leading the paper's author to conclude that «other approaches might be needed to identify injured athletes.»

Second, like Dr. Covassin, she noted that it was based on a parent report of concussion symptoms, with about half of the reported cases never diagnosed by a medical professional.

A lengthy, well - researched, and powerful article in the Spring 2015 issue of the NCAA's Champion magazine, not only reports the belief of many top concussion experts that the media narrative about sports - related concussion trace has been dominated by media reports on the work of Dr. Ann McKee, which was the centerpiece of PBS Frontline's League of Denial, but Dr. McKee's, however belated, mea culpa that «There's no question [that her autopsies finding evidence of CTE in the brains of most of the former athletes were] a very biased study,» that they involved «a certain level of... sensationalism», that there were «times when it's overblown» and went «a little too far.»

The problem, argues Bauman, is that too many media stories focus on professional athletes, CTE, and poor outcomes of prolonged concussion (or sports exposure to repetitive head trauma), and [there are] too few stories about athletes who make full recoveries and improve (even after years of concussion symptoms).

The critical point to always keep in mind about impact sensors is that they are just another tool in the concussion toolbox or, put another way, another set of eyes, with which to identify athletes who (a) may have sustained impacts of sufficient magnitude that (b) may have resulted in some cases in concussions, so that they (c) may be monitored for signs of concussion, or (d) may be asked to undergo a balance, vision, and / or neurocognitive screen / assessment on the sideline or in the locker room, the results of which (e) may suggest a removal from play for the remainder of the game and referral to a concussion specialist for formal evaluation away from the sports sideline, which evaluation (f) may result in a clinical diagnosis of concussion.

installed inside or on the outside of a player's helmet, embedded in a mouth guard, helmet chin strap, skull cap, head band, or skin patch worn behind the ear, for instance), all are essentially designed to do the same thing: alert coaches, athletic trainers, team doctors, other sideline personnel and / or parents about high - risk single and multiple head impacts in order to improve the rate at which concussions are identified.

If you are involved in a private youth sports program which plays on publicly - owned fields, diamonds, rinks, or courts, or are in local government, you have probably been hearing a lot lately about what is being dubbed the «power of the permit»: the authority municipalities and towns around the country are using to condition use of their athletic facilities by private programs on compliance with state concussion safety laws from which they would otherwise be exempt, or, in an increasing number of instances, to fill gaps in their state's law.

A straightforward, elegantly written, concise, and well - organized 215 pages, Back in the Game stands out in a crowded field, not just as a primer on concussions for a parent, coach, or athletes, but for its incisive and often pointed criticism of the way our national conversation about concussions and the long - term effects of playing contact and collision sports has been shaped - some would say warped - by a media that too often eschews fact - based reporting in favor of sensationalism and fear - mongering.

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

In the four years since it was issued, the SCAT2 became one of the most widely used tools for assessing concussions on the sports sidelines (8), but, as a 2013 meta - analysis notes, «a number of concerns have been expressed about» its design and scoring (7).

I wanted to ask them for their reaction to a recent survey of college athletes in contact and collision sports at the University of Pennsylvania which found that, despite being educated about the dangers of continuing to play with concussion symptoms, most are still very reluctant to report symptoms because they want to stay in the game, and to comment on reports that the N.F.L. players» union was against putting sensors in helmets that would alert the sideline to hits of a sufficient magnitude to cause concussion, which may be the technological solution (or, in football parlance «end - around») to the chronic under - reporting problem.

The Pennsylvania Departments of Public Health and Education must develop and post on their websites guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students, parents, and coaches about concussions, the nature and risk of concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI), including the risks of continuing to play or practice after a concussion or TBI.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB 200 (2011) requires the Department of Health and the Department of Education to develop and post on their website guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students participating in or desiring to participate in an athletic activity, their parents and coaches, about the nature and risk of concussion and traumatic braConcussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB 200 (2011) requires the Department of Health and the Department of Education to develop and post on their website guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students participating in or desiring to participate in an athletic activity, their parents and coaches, about the nature and risk of concussion and traumatic braconcussion and traumatic brain injury.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

I would also like to think that MomsTEAM's continued efforts to educate parents about concussion risk management and our PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer,» which aired on over 300 stations last fall and which will be broadcast on almost all 387 stations in the fall of 2014, has played a role in increasing awareness.

It is up to parents, whether it be individually or as members of a booster club, «Friends of Football,» or PTA, to raise money to (a) fund the hiring of a certified athletic trainer (who, as we always say, should be the first hire after the head football coach); (b) consider equipping players with impact sensors (whether in or on helmets, in mouth guards, skullcaps, earbuds, or chinstraps); (c) purchase concussion education videos (which a new study shows players want and which they remember better); (d) to bring in speakers, including former athletes, to speak about concussion (another effective way to impress on young athletes the dangers of concussion); and (e) to pay for instructors to teach about proper tackling and neck strengthening;

Not only is it based on the latest thinking in the rapidly evolving field of concussion evaluation and management and make concussion terminology easy to understand, but, in explaining the short - term and long - term effects of concussion and the concussion management process, Dr. Meehan arms sports parents with all the information they need in making informed choices about treatment and when it is safe for their child to return to the playing field.

In the fall of 2012, the N.F.L. invited me to its New York City headquarters to present a proposal to the league on ways that I thought MomsTEAM could help them preserve and strengthen the sport of youth football, in part by educating parents, and especially safety - conscious moms, about the dangers of concussions and ways in which the risk of concussion could be reduced.

The alleged lack of scientific studies and the amount of clinical judgment involved in concussion management, and the lack of uananimity, either about grading the severity of concussions or in return to play guidelines, while it complicates our efforts to educate parents on concussions, should not be used as an excuse to do nothing.

To provide athletic trainers, physicians, other medical professionals, parents and coaches with recommendations based on these latest studies, the National Athletic Trainers» Association (NATA) has developed a set of guidelines to prevent and manage sport - related concussion and improve decisions about whether an athlete should or should not return to play after experiencing head trauma.

Based on data showing that, while youth football players sustained concussions at about the same rate in practice and overall as high school and college athletes, they were injured at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than older players during games, the UPMC researchers predicted that Pop Warner's new rules «may not only have little effect on reducing on reducing concussions but may also actually increase the incidence of concussions in games via reduced time learning proper tackling in practice.»

Neal Goldman, Brand Manager for Men's Lacrosse at Brine, talks about ways to reduce the risk of concussion in boy's lacrosse, which, according to a 2011 study1 of U.S. high schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff, has the third highest concussion rate (46.6 per 100,000 athletic exposures (1 AE is one athlete participating in one organized high school athletic practice or competition, regardless of the amount of time played), behind only football (76.8) and boys» ice hockey (61.9).

Err on the side of caution and take a child or teen to be evaluated if you have any concerns about concussion

On January 7th, I wrote about a press release promoting an unpublished University of Maryland (UMD) study that recommended a chocolate milk drink to help high school football players recover from concussions.

High school athletics coaches in Washington State are now receiving substantial concussion education and are demonstrating good knowledge about concussions, but little impact is being felt on the proportion of athletes playing with concussive symptoms, according to the two studies published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

High school athletics coaches in Washington State are now receiving substantial concussion education and are demonstrating good knowledge about concussions, but little impact is being felt on the proportion of athletes playing with concussive symptoms, according to two studies published this month in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

It is alarming because health and safety questions on the sidelines of a football game, or about concussions, or in a gym at a volleyball match are being made by coaches and not a medical professional,» CIF Director Roger Blake said.

Despite an increase in media attention, as well as national and local efforts to educate athletes on the potential dangers of traumatic brain injuries, a new study found that many high school football players are not concerned about the long - term effects of concussions and don't report their own concussion symptoms because they fear exclusion from play.

All of the negative stories that are now appearing about the health hazards relating to concussions could have a major effect on youth football here and nationally.

Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT 3) Information about Connecticut's Concussion Law Information about Concussions Concussion Signs & Symptoms Card for Coaches Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport: 3rd Int» l. Conference on Concussion in Sport, Zurich 2010 CDC Study: Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States Connecticut Concussion Task Force (CCTF) The William W. Backus Hospital - Concussions in Youth Sports Video Article: Concussion Debate at the Forefront of Youth Sports Spanish Translation of Concussion Information

I reached out to Christine, Carson's mom, to hear more about her son, and we spoke on the phone about Cullan's life, his tragic death and wondered what role concussions may have played in his decision to take his life.

In 2010, the NFHS developed on online course — «Concussion in Sports — What You Need to Know» — and about 1.7 million individuals have taken the course through the NFHS Coach Education Program at www.nfhslearn.com.