Sentences with phrase «reported head trauma»

My prior post discusses efforts by researchers to develop a more consistent approach for patients arriving in emergency rooms with reported head trauma.

Rugby manages to produce a similar amount of reported head trauma with almost three times the amount of collisions per game, and with many, many more games.

Not exact matches

The study comes shortly after the NFL released its official 2015 injury report, which shows that instances of head trauma rose by 32 percent from 2014 to 2015.

Despite recent media attention on concussions and other brain trauma, the majority of football injuries occur in the lower extremities, with injuries to the knees reported to be as high as 36.5 percent, followed by up to 18.8 percent for ankle injuries, up to 13.3 percent for shoulder injuries, 11.8 percent for head injuries and 7.2 percent for neck injuries.

Reports circulating are he suffered serious head trauma resulting in (among other things) the mother of all concussion and is still feeling the effects from and thus can not be cleared to play football or at the very least resume football activities.

What I learned from working with the Newcastle team, and with youth football programs across the country over the years is that traditional concussion education in which athletes, coaches, and parents are taught the signs and symptoms of concussion, and the health risks of concussion and repetitive head trauma, isn't working to change the concussion reporting behavior of athletes.

Unfortunately, there has been during this same period, and especially in the last five to ten years, a substantial increase in the number of reported cases of second impact syndrome (SIS), which occurs when an athlete who sustains head trauma, i.e. a traumatic brain injury - often a concussion or worse injury, such as a cerebral contusion (bruised brain)- sustains a second head injury before signs of the initial injury have cleared.

An August 2015 editiorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, [41] said that autopsy studies - many conducted in Boston at the Center for the Study of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy - and a study reporting that retired NFL players who began playing football before age 12 demonstrated greater levels of cognitive impairment in their 40s - 60s than those who started later, [40] «raises concern that an accumulation of undiagnosed subconcussive head trauma may lead to (or be a leading factor) for CTE.»

Following a season of grueling practices and hard - fought games, football and ice hockey players who had no outward sign of head trauma showed worrisome changes in brain structure and cognitive performance that weren't shared by athletes who competed in varsity sports such as track, crew and cross-country skiing, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Neurology.

Police responded to a report of a burglary and found an unresponsive 66 - year - old male in the basement of the home with trauma to the head and body.

«Given all the known benefits and favorable safety profile of creatine supplementation reported in the scientific and medical literature, it is the view of ISSN that government legislatures and sport organizations who restrict and / or discourage use of creatine may be placing athletes at greater risk — particularly in contact sports that have risk of head trauma and / or neurological injury.»

The court reported concluded that the ex-showman suffered from dementia caused by repeated head trauma, something which is sure to make its way into the latest lawsuit.

Secondary (pituitary) or tertiary (hypothalamic) hypothyroidism has not been well described in either juvenile or adult cats but has been reported after severe head trauma.

FACT: According to a 2008 report of the Early Promotion and Intervention Research Consortium (E-PIRC), a Miami University project focused on mental health intervention in collaborating Early Head Start Programs working with 128 high - risk children and their families from Miami - Dade county, found that three - fourths (71 %) of these 128 children had experienced at least one trauma such as: