Sentences with phrase «months after a concussion»

The rules changes come just 17 months after the Concussion Legacy Foundation and the Santa Clara Institute of Sports Law and Ethics (ISLE) launched the Safer Soccer campaign to delay the introduction of headers until high school.

But a compound previously used to enhance memory in mice may offer hope: Rodents who took it up to a month after a concussion had memory capabilities similar to those that had never been injured.

For up to three months after a concussion, athletes have an increased likelihood of a musculoskeletal injury to a lower limb.

Not exact matches

Brett played for the Islanders from 1994 - 95 to May 1996 but quit the game at 20 after suffering three concussions in 10 months.

A number of Thursday's back pages focus on the concussion review panel failing to sanction Northampton Saints for their treatment of Wales wing George North after he suffered a head injury at the beginning of the month, despite the panel concluding that he should not have returned to play after the incident.

When a recent email prompted me to pick up the phone to talk to one concerned mother, she told me that her son - who had suffered a concussion playing indoor lacrosse, but, seven months later, and after seeing a number of concussion specialists, was still experiencing symptoms - was giving up hope of ever getting better.

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 have had three concussions, and it took four months to recover after the last one.

Five months after Rory Lamont, the former Scotland full - back, lifted the lid in an exclusive Scotsman interview on a culture within sport that treated concussion as a temporary, minor injury, rugby unions, leading sports medics, government officials and other sporting bodies have begun to accept that some of their practices in managing head injuries were inadequate.

These were Giuliana Bonnette's symptoms after her first concussion 6 months ago.

My interest in this research started after my brother committed suicide at the age of 17 following a series of concussions he had in an 18 month period.

Davis especially has blasted the Boston research — just months after leading concussion campaigner Chris Nowinski had addressed the body and the Players» Association — during an unsavoury radio interview with Roberts.

Contrary to what my brother had been told by doctors who treated him that it would take about 2 weeks to heal from a concussion, I found it was taking the hockey players an average of 3 - 6 months to be symptom - free and several players were still having symptoms after a year.

Three months after the NFL agreed on a $ 765 million settlement with thousands of ex-players for concussion - related health problems, a group of their NHL peers is going to court, too.

New research shows that the brains of some football players who had the usual head hits associated with the sport, but no concussions, still had signs of mild brain injury six months after the season ended.

If your child or teen has concussion symptoms that last weeks to months after the injury, their medical provider may talk to you about post-concussive syndrome.

To perform the analysis, the researchers divided 27 rodents into nine groups: one day, seven days or six months after either no concussions, a single concussion or three concussions on three consecutive days.

Young hockey players who have suffered concussions may still show changes in the white matter of the brain months after being cleared to return to play, researchers at Western University have found through sophisticated Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques.

After growing the model for two months — previous ones lasted a few weeks at best — the team dropped different weights on the system to simulate brain trauma, like a concussion.

«The one thing we know is that there can be physiological changes in the brain that last for months to years after a brain injury due to concussion.

WHEN the 2013 National Football League season kicks off in the US next month, players will have an added layer of protection to go with their helmets and shoulder pads: an independent neurologist at every game to assess them for signs of concussion after receiving a blow to the head.

The authors conducted a study of injured patients at an emergency department in a hospital in France to examine whether persistent symptoms three months after a head injury were specific to concussion or may be better described as part of PTSD.

That inflammation worsened for months after the last concussion.

If you still have concussion symptoms months after your motorcycle accident, such as feeling lightheaded or a headache that won't go away, you may have post-concussion syndrome.

While many people are able to fully recover from concussions with timely medical treatment, others suffer from post-concussion syndrome, which can last for months after the incident that caused the concussion.