Sentences with phrase «more about the concussion»

Because they have followed Dale's journey back to the track, millions of fans now think more about concussions.

VIDEO: Learn more about concussions and the services offered by experts at NYU Langone's Concussion Center.

These February workshops are targeted to reach spring coaches, youth coaches, sports officials, athletes, parents, school nurses, school counselors, athletic directors, upper administrators, including school board members, and anyone who wants to learn more about concussions.

Learn more about The Concussion Project and how you can get involved.

We are learning more and more about concussions each year.

Not exact matches

Due to the work of McKee at Boston University and Bennet Omalu (subject of the recently released movie Concussion), we are learning about more and more athletes diagnosed with CTE — Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a condition marked by «memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, impulse control problems, aggression, depression and, eventually, progressive dementia.»

Eager to learn more about hiscondition, Nowinski began researching concussions, and he became a crusader forawareness of the problems they cause.

FISHER: «Yup, but with Deflategate, botched concussion protocols, and more blown officials» calls, you know all about heat, huh?»

The source said the the main concern of the NFL types is thus that, if he gets a couple more concussions, dad will tell son, «life is about more than football....»

I think Jackson and Allen will probably fall to us so I'm resigned to the pick, I'm more worried about concussions with Rosen, no chance we land Darnold.

Everyone now has a much deeper and more substantial understanding about concussions, and how to prevent and manage them, than they did 20 or even 10 years ago, and the information conveyed to players reflects that greater understanding.

He doesn't want to reveal more about himself than that because he is part of the concussion lawsuit that is still being settled.

What's even more impressive about their hot start is that they've managed to do this after # 1 goalie Marc - Andre Fleury went out with a concussion, and then after # 2 goalie Malcolm Subban went out due to a lower body injury.

While much of what the speakers at the N.F.L. / USA Football luncheon I attended last week in New York City was concussions and football safety advice MomsTEAM has been giving parents for years, what impressed me the most was what we were told about the ongoing efforts by the league and its youth football partner to improve health and safety for football players from the pros down to the youth level, a topic which takes up more of N.F.L. commissioner Roger Goodell's time than any other.

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.

The bad news is that concussion education of athletes and parents was much less extensive, with about a third of athletes and more than half of parents not receiving any concussion education beyond signing a concussion and head injury information sheet.

«First, this is relatively small regional sample from a population with which this group has done quite a bit of work, so these parents may be more knowledgeable about concussions than other parents across the country.»

Eschewing the extremes occupied by the loudest voices in the national concussion and youth sport conversation, the ones who either deny there is a serious issue that needs to be addressed (who they characterize as the «just a knock to the head» crowd) or have become so convinced that contact sports inevitably result in lifelong disability that they are so fundamentally unsafe that they should be abolished, they opt instead for the common sense middle ground - a place where MomsTEAM and I have been all along - a magical place where it is possible to have a «more thoughtful, science - based» dialog about the role of sports in our kids» lives.

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.

More parents are becoming educated about the risks head injuries - whether of the diagnosed concussion variety or the result of repetitive impacts - and the steps that can and are being taken to minimize those risks.

Recent qualitative and quantitative studies have confirmed MomsTEAM's longstanding belief that, more than education about concussion signs and symptoms, it is changing the negative attitude of too many coaches towards reporting and creating a safe concussion - reporting environment that may be the best ways to improve the low rates of self - reporting found in study after study.

They can then share ongoing, objective reports with their children's doctor to help make more informed decisions about whether or not to let their children return to the playing field — or playground — following a documented concussion.

The risk of brain injuries in professional football has gotten enormous attention thanks to more than 4,200 former players suing the National Football League, alleging the league withheld information about the long - term dangers of concussions.

After waves of lawsuits alleging the failure to warn about the dangers of the sport and that helmets were ineffective in preventing concussions, the number of companies making them dropped from more than a dozen in the late 1970s to only a couple of major names by the early 1990s.

Learn more about how to recognize a concussion, what to do if you think your child has a concussion, how to properly choose and fit a helmet, and how to take our free online training.

«We are excited about this affiliation, and hope we can help bring more awareness to what is being done now about sports concussions.»

Only 36 % report that their children's school has a policy about returning to sports after a concussion, while more than half are unaware of any concussion policy (Table 1).

These studies could teach us more about why and how concussions tend to occur, as well as how subconcussive blows — a hit to the head that doesn't result in a concussion — affect an athlete over a long period of time.

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.

«The more we know about sports concussions, the better we can manage the injury if it does occur and mitigate any lasting effects.»

Trowbridge said they were motivated to do the study to find out what caregivers understand about concussions and how to better educate them so they can be more effective in looking for symptoms or other possible signs of trouble.

One hard knock Concussions are the most common type of brain injury, and about 85 percent of people who suffer one will more or less fully recover within a year.

In addition to helping the researchers understand more about the forces at work in concussions, the data collected from the sensors also can help individual players reduce their own risk of injury.

Molfese and a team of other researchers want to know more about how a concussion affects the brain.

More About The Movie: The script for Concussion is based on a magazine article written by Jeanne Marie Laskas.

I highly recommend going through previous nominees for Best Limited Film for there you'll not only find more transgressive films about the white LGBT experience (Hedwig and the Angry Inch & Mysterious Skin, Velvet Goldmine & Beautiful Thing, Tomboy & Concussion) but especially films about the very type of characters I highlighted this past month.

To learn more information about concussions, head injuries, symptoms, treatments and recovery time, visit mayoclinic.org.

To learn more about the wide range of initiatives being taken by schools, medical professionals and the government to improve concussion treatment, click here to read the full article.