Sentences with phrase «hearing about your concussion»

It is not uncommon to hear about concussions, fractures and ligament damage occurring in a ski or snowboarding accident.

Not exact matches

You've almost definitely heard, between reports and the Will Smith film, Concussion, buzz about brain injuries caused by football injuries.

When the NFL settled the concussion lawsuit with thousands of retired players, you couldn't change the channel without hearing a choir of former players and analysts saying, «Knowing what we know now about concussions...»

When we hear about catastrophic injury and death amongst athletes, we typically think about concussion (1), cardiac arrest (2) and heatstroke.

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.

Every clinician who routinely treat athletes with post-concussion syndrome (i.e. patients whose symptoms after suffering a sports - related concussion persist for months or years), with whom I spoke for this article expressed variations of the same concern: that their patients, hearing media reports about athletes suffering symptoms associated with CTE (such as depression), were losing hope of a full recovery, to the point of considering suicide.

I don't know about you, but I've been hearing some extreme solutions in reply to the increased awareness of concussions in youth football.

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.

At 11 a.m., during a joint hearing, members of the NYC Council's Committee on Education and Committee on Health receive testimony about a legislative proposal intended to improve detection of concussions during scholastic football games and practices, and a legislative proposal that would establish a Youth Sports Health and Safety Task Force; Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

Benedetto said Monday he didn't know his showing of «Concussion,» which focuses on the dangerous brain injuries professional football players face, at his hearing was in jeopardy until reading the Daily News story Monday about Markey.

I haven't seen anything written about this aspect of the book — how the concussion is a lens — but it certainly altered my own complex hearing of it.