Sentences with phrase «talking about concussions»

For the first time in history, sports teams on every level — youth, high school, college, and professional — are not only talking about concussions, but they are doing something about them.

We're going through a big transition in how we talk about concussions and how we treat concussions.

In a sea of 100,000 eager NFL fans at the third and final International Series game of 2014, no one talks about concussions or publicly financed stadiums or Roger Goodell's oversight or whatever you, the lifelong American NFL fan, have a problem with.

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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.

Elijah Collins, a three - star running back, said he thinks about concussions regularly, and he and his coaches talk about head injuries often.

JW: One thing that was interesting about [Joe] Rogan's interview with Cormier the other night: For all the talk about head injuries in sports, we actually saw what a concussion looks like in real - time.

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.

Jeff Skeen of Full90 Sports talks about and the role of protective headgear in reducing the risk of concussion and the difference between concussions, which occur as a result of contact between a player's head and a hard object (another player's head, the ground or the goalpost), and the kinds of brain injuries which can occur as a result of repeated heading of a soccer ball.

I wasn't talking then about total head trauma - a concept popularized by MomsTEAM's concussion expert emeritus, Dr. Robert Cantu - or discussing the effect of repetitive subconcussive hits, or what is now commonly being referred to repetitive head impacts, or RHI.

Neal Goldman, Brand Manager for Men's Lacrosse at Brine, talks about ways to reduce the risk of concussions in boy's lacrosse.

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).

Matt Stresak, Physician's Assistant at the Sports Concussion Institute in Marina del Rey, California, talks about the Institute's pro-active approach to concussion evaluation and mConcussion Institute in Marina del Rey, California, talks about the Institute's pro-active approach to concussion evaluation and mconcussion evaluation and management.

From high school through the pros, Mecklenburg's experience with football was different than what you see today; concussions were rarely talked about and instead of getting fines for hits to the head, the act was encouraged.

Steve Stenersen has been championing concussion education for years and we have been talking back and forth about concussions since I first learned about concussions from an article in US Lacrosse Magazine in 2008.

Steve and I were having one of our semi-annual talks about how to empower parents to ask their leagues about concussion policy.

In original stories that aired in February, local high school coaches, trainers and sporting goods dealers talked about a Virginia Tech study that indicates certain football helmets may cut concussion risks.

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.

Because the message that I carry with me, I don't want it to be tainted; I don't want anyone to say, «Well, he's only suing because he wants money; that's the reason why he is talking about the whole issue of concussion.»

I've learned about over the years and, you know, like the doctor said, people talk about the helmet — you improve the helmet, you know, you'll decrease the risk of concussion.

Steve: Carson is obviously talking about the NFLs concussion crisis, the head trauma faced by players has been a subject of discussion for years now, but it really exploded into the public consciousness with the death of twelve - time Pro Bowler Junior Seau, who took his own life on May 2nd.

It's one of the most talked about injuries in sport today, concussion.