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‘I Got My Bell Rung!’

Mar 16, 2018 Posted by: Cover Three Thirsty Admin

I’ve seen a lot of patients this year with concussions. Usually, this is an athletic injury, but it is frequently seen in others as well. Concussions have always been a part of sports, especially those involving high-energy collisions, most notably football, soccer, hockey, and basketball. Intensive research, along with lawsuits like the NFL Players Association vs. the NFL is causing research to move rapidly to help us get a firmer grasp on how to prevent and manage concussions.
A concussion is a trauma-induced alteration in mental status that usually does not involve a loss of consciousness and does not have to be a result of a blow to the head. In fact, only ten percent of concussions are associated with a loss of consciousness.

A concussion is a result of soft brain tissue moving violently inside the bony skull. It is important to realize that this movement can result in varying degrees of microscopic injury to the brain, the majority of which do not show up on radiology imaging studies like CT or MRI scans.

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Fewer high school athletes play football amid concussion fears

Mar 15, 2018 Posted by: Cover Three Thirsty Admin

Cover Three - A new reason why parents can feel better about letting their children play.

Story:

By Lisa Rapaport

(Reuters Health) – Participation in high school football has been steadily falling in recent years amid mounting concerns about the potential for traumatic brain injuries to lead to lasting health problems, a U.S. study suggests.

Overall, participation in high school sports has surged from less than 4 million student athletes in 2001 to almost 4.6 million last year, researchers report in Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics. But participation in football peaked in 2008 at 1.11 million athletes, and then declined almost 5 percent to 1.06 million players by 2017.

“This decline is associated with media attention focused on concussions or brain injuries among football players,” said study co-author Dr. Chris Feudtner of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Timeline: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis

Mar 13, 2018 Posted by: Cover Three Thirsty Admin

What did the NFL know and when did it know it? To help answer that question we’ve created a dual chronology, with growing scientific concern about the link between football and brain disease on the left-hand column, and the NFL’s public statements on the right.

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This is an oldie, yet a goodie, from 2003.

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