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"Young players are leaving the game with their destinies unfulfilled" The biggest stars in the world are pledging their brains. Young players are leaving the game with their destinies unfulfilled. The stories they tell spark fear and raise questions. And the science hasn't even begun to provide answ...

The Wall Street Journal reported today that the U.S. Department of Justice has launched criminal investigations into sexual abuse across multiple U.S. Olympic organizations as well as “potential financial and business misconduct throughout the U.S. Olympic system.” Other news outlets later reported ...

Study shows Hall of Famer Mikita had CTE Sep 13, 2019 Associated Press CHICAGO -- A posthumous study of Stan Mikita's brain shows the Hockey Hall of Famer suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy at the time of his death a year ago. Dr. Ann McKee, the director of the BU CTE Center, announced t...

"the rate of concussions in girls’ hockey doesn’t seem to be going down anytime soon" As we head into the summer months, I wanted to share one key idea with you about how we need to do things differently when it comes to what we teach ON the ice. We have to teach more CONTACT CONFIDENCE in the femal...

Concussion Risk is Higher in Female Athletes By Matthew Hoch Aug. 19, 2019 The University of Kentucky Public Relations & Strategic Communications Office provides a weekly health column available for use and reprint by news media. This week's column is by Matthew Hoch, Ph.D., associate professor with...

Olympic champion figure skating coach banned for life for sexual misconduct claims By Cindy Boren August 22 at 9:02 AM Richard Callaghan, the longtime U.S. figure skating coach best known for leading Tara Lipinski to a 1998 Olympic gold medal, was declared “permanently ineligible” Wednesday by the U...

Another HS hockey career cut short by concussion Mia Dunning has come a long way. The Ashwaubenon senior qualified for the WIAA state track and field meet last Thursday in the shot put and discus. Her winning throw in the discus of 141 feet, 11 inches was almost 10 feet farther than her previous per...

Five New Answers about the Link between Football, CTE, and Dementia AUGUST 5, 2019 KAT J. MCALPINE When it comes to our brain health, both gray and white stuff matter. The brain’s white matter is made up of all the connections linking together the brain’s working neuron cells, which are collectively...

Her interest in concussions comes from her own hockey career, having sustained the injury herself A love of hockey and an education in behavioural neuroscience. Together, they gave Maria Powell, B.Sc.(Hons.)’12, MD’17 , the motivation and tools to fight a debilitating injury that is pervasive in con...

Dementias beyond CTE including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's linked to sport, study finds The link between contact sports and dementia extends beyond chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) to a much wider range of neurological diseases, according to new studies of the brains of former football and rug...

Rise in concussions in female athletics Posted: 8:32 AM, Jul 05, 2019 Updated: 7:52 AM, Jul 05, 2019 By: Frank Cipolla We’re digging into new reports claiming the number of concussions among teenage girl athletes across our country is going up, especially those playing lacrosse and soccer. Fox 4 inv...

For the video and pictures use the link at the bottom Driven to the end Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin could do it all. Until it all became too much. (Jenn Ackerman for The Washington Post) By Kent Babb JULY 29, 2019 MINNEAPOLIS — On the day he’d bury his daughter, Mark Catlin stepped out of a chapel ...

The proposal below if passed would separate Safesport from all National Governing Bodies such as USA Hockey. Should Safesport also be separate entity in the state of Minnesota separate from any state or local governing organization? Senate panel: Negligence by Olympic, USA Gymnastics officials enabl...

Impacts in ice hockey were mostly long duration events The purpose of this research was to conduct reconstructions of concussive and non-concussive impacts in ice hockey to determine the biomechanics and thresholds of concussive injury in ice hockey. Videos of concussive and non-concussive impacts i...

Please use the link at the bottom of the article for pictures and figures. CTE: The Hidden Risk of Playing Contact Sports Authors and reviewers Authors Hamad Yadikar is an Assistant Professor at Kuwait University, in the Department of Chemistry and Emergency Medicine. His research project involves u...

Can USA Swimming address sexual abuse without a Larry Nassar moment? Can a governing body stop sexual abuse and make a culture change without that one galvanizing media-ready moment? Beau Dure Thu 11 Jul 2019 10.00 BST Last modified on Thu 11 Jul 2019 10.14 BST Shares 33 World swimming championships...

A concussion can cost your job, especially if you are young and well educated In the aftermath of a concussion the ability to prioritize many tasks is often impaired and patients are often better off doing simple tasks that are completed one by one. That may be the reason why people with no or few y...

Skating Coach Pleads Guilty To Having Sex With Underage Student June 18, 2019 at 3:50 pmFiled Under:Sexual Assault, Thomas Joseph Incantalupo MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A former figure skating coach has pleaded guilty to criminal sexual conduct for having sex with a student of his when she was between 14 ...

Pseudomedicine for sports concussions in the USA Kathleen E Bachynski James M Smoliga Published:July 03, 2019DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(19)30250-9 PlumX Metrics Over the past decade, medical studies, media coverage, legislation, and education campaigns have all contributed to heightened ...

workarounds if your concussion causes trouble reading Once you learn how to read, it’s easy to take the skill for granted. Like breathing or walking, we don’t give the ability much thought unless it begins to deteriorate. But trouble reading can develop at any age for a variety of reasons, including...

Where are the women's brain injury studies? Two-thirds of those who get Alzheimer’s disease are women In 1994, the National Football League formed a Committee on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury to study an alarming trend: Players were retiring early because of what seemed to be concussion-related proble...

Brandi Chastain, Michelle Akers launch landmark CTE study for women's soccer: "We can't ignore this anymore" On Friday, Team USA will take on France in the Women's World Cup quarterfinal. But meanwhile, first on "CBS This Morning," former soccer stars Michelle Akers and Brandi Chastain reveal how th...

Alan Shearer: Dementia, Football and Me Documentary 2017
Watch at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMoDtIJ_b8I

"The link between traumatic brain injury and CTE is incontrovertible," said neuropathologist Dr. John Crary Hayley Hodson fully admits she would never be considered a science geek. Before the star volleyball player from Southern California went to Stanford as an English major, she completed her high...

Implications for pediatric and young athlete populations at risk of mTBI Highlights • In aging adults, early-life mTBI leads to worst brain outcome than late-life mTBI. • Brain anomalies are mostly visible using DWI measures of white matter integrity. • Brain anomalies are visible even in neurologic...