"Concussions may have lasting and widespread effects on a person's cognitive abilities, according to two new studies presented here at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's annual meeting.
In one study, presented on Sunday (April 3), researchers found that a concussion's effect on visual working memory — the ability to remember specific things you have seen — may last much longer than scientists had thought.
There's been an assumption that a concussion can affect a person's thinking skills for several weeks, the researchers said. But the new study showed that the effects may last as long as 55 years.
The researchers looked at two groups: one group of 43 people who ranged in age from 18 to 80, and another group of 20 college students, whose average age was 21. Each group included some people who had a concussion and some who had never experienced one.
The study showed that regardless of people's age or how long it had been since they experienced a concussion, those who had suffered a concussion in their lives did worse on a test of visual working memory than did those who had never had a concussion.
To test working visual memory, the participants were very briefly shown an image, said Hector Arciniega, the lead researcher on the study and a graduate student in neuroscience at the University of Nevada, Reno. Then, a second image would appear, and the participants were asked whether this was the same image from earlier, he said.
The people in the control groups (who hadn't experienced a concussion), answered this question more accurately, on average, than the people who had experienced a concussion in their lives, Arciniega told Live Science. The results were consistent throughout the age groups, and show that concussions can have long-lasting effects, he said.
And while a lower accuracy on a memory test may seem like a small effect, Arciniega noted that people may notice the impairments, especially if they have had multiple concussions. The researchers also observed anecdotally that the people in the younger age group in this study (the college students) were more likely to notice these differences.
It might take longer for someone who has had a concussion to study for a test, for example, he said. In older individuals, the effects may be harder to identify, however, because people naturally experience a decline in working memory as they age, Arciniega said.
Attention deficits
In the second study, presented today (April 4), other researchers found that concussions affected people's ability to pay attention. In addition, the researchers found there is a general lack of awareness about concussions.
In the study, the researchers tested 63 men between ages 18 and 28. The scientists originally intended to compare the men who had been diagnosed with a concussion to those who had not been diagnosed.
However, after giving all of the participants a questionnaire asking about their concussion history, blows to the head and other symptoms, the researchers found that many of the participants had likely experienced concussions, even though they had not been diagnosed, the researchers said.
A total of 31 people were included in the concussion group: 10 who had been diagnosed, and another 21 who had not been diagnosed but who had experienced symptoms after being hit in the head.
The results from the questionnaire suggest that many people don't know what the symptoms of a concussion are, said Jon Sigurjonsson, an adjunct assistant professor of psychology at the City College of New York and the lead researcher on the study.
Next, to investigate attention, the researchers used a test called the "MMN" test, which involves measuring a person's brain activity while the individual is shown a flashing letter M on a screen. When the M changes to an N, there should be a spike in activity in the brain, indicating that the person is paying attention, Sigurjonsson said.
The researchers observed this activity taking place in the people who had not had concussions, but did not see the activity in people who had experienced concussions, suggesting that concussions had affected the individuals' attention abilities, Sigurjonsson said. There were no differences between the two groups in executive function, which includes skills such as planning and focusing, the researchers found.
The scientists plan to do additional tests on how concussions affect people's thinking abilities, Sigurjonsson. In addition, the researchers hope to use their results to help develop an objective test to determine if someone has had a concussion, he said."
Concussions and Cognitive Skills: What's the Impact?
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Risks of Concussion in Youth Ice Hockey Spur Reforms, Concerns
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"Children’s heads are nearly full size by the time they are 6 years old, but their mass is closer to 25 percent of an adult, and they have weak necks,” said Nowinski. “This means that when the head of a child is impacted, it takes little energy to accelerate their head and brain quickly, resulting in a bobblehead-doll-like effect.”
BU’s CTE Research May Lead to Regulations on Children’s Contact Sports
Read more: http://buquad.com/2016/04/06/bus-cte-re ... ct-sports/
Harris Poll results:
• 24 percent of adults think a concussion will change your life forever;
• 72 percent believe the damage to the brain is permanent;
• 80 percent believe you can only lessen symptoms and that you never fully recover;
• 25 percent will not allow their kids to play contact sports due to the fear of concussion;
• 81 percent are not comfortable that they would know the steps to manage and treat a concussion if they were to sustain one.
Read more: http://www.prescottenews.com/index.php/ ... s-concerns
"Children’s heads are nearly full size by the time they are 6 years old, but their mass is closer to 25 percent of an adult, and they have weak necks,” said Nowinski. “This means that when the head of a child is impacted, it takes little energy to accelerate their head and brain quickly, resulting in a bobblehead-doll-like effect.”
BU’s CTE Research May Lead to Regulations on Children’s Contact Sports
Read more: http://buquad.com/2016/04/06/bus-cte-re ... ct-sports/
Harris Poll results:
• 24 percent of adults think a concussion will change your life forever;
• 72 percent believe the damage to the brain is permanent;
• 80 percent believe you can only lessen symptoms and that you never fully recover;
• 25 percent will not allow their kids to play contact sports due to the fear of concussion;
• 81 percent are not comfortable that they would know the steps to manage and treat a concussion if they were to sustain one.
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Dr. Charles Tator
“Once upon a time eye injuries were a frightening reality at all levels of hockey. From the professional ranks to Atom, eyes were exposed to the randomness of high sticks and flying pucks and tragedies followed.
Accidental blindness was a part of the sport.
It’s almost hard to imagine now, but over his nearly 50-year career Dr. Charles Tator has watched hockey safety evolve to the point where kids can play their entire minor hockey career without risking their eyesight to bad luck or carelessness. And even in the professional ranks, playing without a visor will eventually become a thing of the past, as every player entering the league from 2013-14 is required to wear one.
When it comes to protecting players’ eyesight at all levels, the battle has been won in spectacular fashion, although the NHL was the last holdout to common sense.
Will the same be said for brain health in hockey?
The question has become the prism through which hockey is increasingly viewed these days, as everyone from hockey moms to NHL commissioner Gary Bettman wrestle aligning the nature of a hard, fast game and the increasing knowledge of the risks of brain injuries for those who play it, at all levels.
Tator has become synonymous with the push for greater concussion awareness, the sport’s conscience in many ways.
The Toronto-based neurosurgeon was referenced multiple times by members of the NHL’s head office as executives discussed the league’s concussion issues in a trove of previously private email communications that have become public. They are evidence in a class action lawsuit filed in Minnesota alleging the NHL was aware or should have been aware of the long-term effects head trauma could have on its players.
From then-NHL senior vice-president Colin Campbell making reference to those advocating for greater safety as ‘Greenpeace pukes’, to former NHL senior vice-president of hockey operations Mike Murphy complaining the league has become ‘over-doctored’, to vice-president of hockey operations Kris King lamenting about the league having to answer to the Charles Tators of the world, the member of the Canadian medical Hall of Fame has become part of the NHL vernacular.
...He hopes that he will eventually see the same consideration for protecting players’ brains as has been given to preventing eye injuries and spinal injuries, even if the path to such a seemingly obvious goal seems uncertain and resistance apparently is at the highest levels of the sport.
“I believe we can change the game,” he said during an interview at his offices at Toronto Western Hospital. “But it has gone very slowly because those who are in charge of the professional game have another idea. They believe that violence and aggression sells, that that’s what the public wants.
“[But] now I think we’ve realized when we’ve reached the level of parents withdrawing their kids from hockey, when we’ve reached the level of kids as young as 13 having to withdraw because of repetitive concussions … all of this evidence is mounting.
“The evidence that we need a cultural shift in hockey, it’s all there to be appreciated by those that are running the game.”
The league bristles at the characterization.
“Other than I don’t agree with Dr. Tator’s opinion, and that the actual facts belie it, I have no intention to comment further,” said NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly.
For inspiration about the possibility for change, Tator cites the influence of Dr. Tom Pashby, an ophthalmologist inducted to Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame for — among many accomplishments — first introducing helmets to minor hockey and publishing research regarding eye injuries that led to face protection becoming mandatory in Canadian minor hockey in 1980.
Tator joined with Pashby as evidence that spinal injuries could be reduced with greater awareness and rules against checking from behind.
“Protecting the eyes was a big item and he was instrumental in helping me figure out how to prevent broken necks,” said Tator. “I’d like to see it down to zero, but we have made progress. We used to see 14 or 15 cases a year and now we’re down to one or two a year, so that is an improvement.”
But brains are trickier. No one needed to be educated about the risks posed by sticks and pucks hitting players in the eye, and the solution was obvious.
Spinal cord injuries were another challenge and remain so, even if progress was made. Cutting down on them required education about their causes and subsequent changes to player behaviour. Helping the effort was the stark evidence of what happens when players break their necks when hit from behind: A young athlete in a wheelchair sends a powerful message.
Intentionally checking from behind has quickly become one of the sport’s new taboos.
Helping hockey understand its concussion problem proved more difficult. The injuries occurred in the course of the way the game has always been played and their effects were harder to demonstrate, sometimes even to the players themselves.
...If the brain is the final frontier, he’s confident there can and will be progress made there too. He cites the push to pass Rowan’s Law in the Ontario Legislature – a bill requiring the coroner’s recommendations made following the death of Rowan Stringer, an Ottawa high school rugby player who died after suffering three concussions in a week – as an example of the growing momentum around concussion awareness.
He’s seen dramatic changes in the approach to hockey safety before. He’s confident there are more to come.
“You have be an optimist to be a neurosurgeon,” he says. “You’re always hoping that there will be a change of attitude towards this. And it could happen tomorrow … it’s going to be in the best interests of everyone for there be an acknowledgement that the game needs to be changed.”
Why Dr. Charles Tator Believes Concussions Will Change Hockey Culture
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/dr-c ... ll-change-
Accidental blindness was a part of the sport.
It’s almost hard to imagine now, but over his nearly 50-year career Dr. Charles Tator has watched hockey safety evolve to the point where kids can play their entire minor hockey career without risking their eyesight to bad luck or carelessness. And even in the professional ranks, playing without a visor will eventually become a thing of the past, as every player entering the league from 2013-14 is required to wear one.
When it comes to protecting players’ eyesight at all levels, the battle has been won in spectacular fashion, although the NHL was the last holdout to common sense.
Will the same be said for brain health in hockey?
The question has become the prism through which hockey is increasingly viewed these days, as everyone from hockey moms to NHL commissioner Gary Bettman wrestle aligning the nature of a hard, fast game and the increasing knowledge of the risks of brain injuries for those who play it, at all levels.
Tator has become synonymous with the push for greater concussion awareness, the sport’s conscience in many ways.
The Toronto-based neurosurgeon was referenced multiple times by members of the NHL’s head office as executives discussed the league’s concussion issues in a trove of previously private email communications that have become public. They are evidence in a class action lawsuit filed in Minnesota alleging the NHL was aware or should have been aware of the long-term effects head trauma could have on its players.
From then-NHL senior vice-president Colin Campbell making reference to those advocating for greater safety as ‘Greenpeace pukes’, to former NHL senior vice-president of hockey operations Mike Murphy complaining the league has become ‘over-doctored’, to vice-president of hockey operations Kris King lamenting about the league having to answer to the Charles Tators of the world, the member of the Canadian medical Hall of Fame has become part of the NHL vernacular.
...He hopes that he will eventually see the same consideration for protecting players’ brains as has been given to preventing eye injuries and spinal injuries, even if the path to such a seemingly obvious goal seems uncertain and resistance apparently is at the highest levels of the sport.
“I believe we can change the game,” he said during an interview at his offices at Toronto Western Hospital. “But it has gone very slowly because those who are in charge of the professional game have another idea. They believe that violence and aggression sells, that that’s what the public wants.
“[But] now I think we’ve realized when we’ve reached the level of parents withdrawing their kids from hockey, when we’ve reached the level of kids as young as 13 having to withdraw because of repetitive concussions … all of this evidence is mounting.
“The evidence that we need a cultural shift in hockey, it’s all there to be appreciated by those that are running the game.”
The league bristles at the characterization.
“Other than I don’t agree with Dr. Tator’s opinion, and that the actual facts belie it, I have no intention to comment further,” said NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly.
For inspiration about the possibility for change, Tator cites the influence of Dr. Tom Pashby, an ophthalmologist inducted to Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame for — among many accomplishments — first introducing helmets to minor hockey and publishing research regarding eye injuries that led to face protection becoming mandatory in Canadian minor hockey in 1980.
Tator joined with Pashby as evidence that spinal injuries could be reduced with greater awareness and rules against checking from behind.
“Protecting the eyes was a big item and he was instrumental in helping me figure out how to prevent broken necks,” said Tator. “I’d like to see it down to zero, but we have made progress. We used to see 14 or 15 cases a year and now we’re down to one or two a year, so that is an improvement.”
But brains are trickier. No one needed to be educated about the risks posed by sticks and pucks hitting players in the eye, and the solution was obvious.
Spinal cord injuries were another challenge and remain so, even if progress was made. Cutting down on them required education about their causes and subsequent changes to player behaviour. Helping the effort was the stark evidence of what happens when players break their necks when hit from behind: A young athlete in a wheelchair sends a powerful message.
Intentionally checking from behind has quickly become one of the sport’s new taboos.
Helping hockey understand its concussion problem proved more difficult. The injuries occurred in the course of the way the game has always been played and their effects were harder to demonstrate, sometimes even to the players themselves.
...If the brain is the final frontier, he’s confident there can and will be progress made there too. He cites the push to pass Rowan’s Law in the Ontario Legislature – a bill requiring the coroner’s recommendations made following the death of Rowan Stringer, an Ottawa high school rugby player who died after suffering three concussions in a week – as an example of the growing momentum around concussion awareness.
He’s seen dramatic changes in the approach to hockey safety before. He’s confident there are more to come.
“You have be an optimist to be a neurosurgeon,” he says. “You’re always hoping that there will be a change of attitude towards this. And it could happen tomorrow … it’s going to be in the best interests of everyone for there be an acknowledgement that the game needs to be changed.”
Why Dr. Charles Tator Believes Concussions Will Change Hockey Culture
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/dr-c ... ll-change-
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"Think of a concussion like a sunburn. The more you get, the more problems that may arise over time. The earlier you get them, the more damage that can be done to a developing brain."
Healthy Living: Concussions in Youth Sports
http://wabi.tv/2016/03/29/healthy-livin ... th-sports/
Healthy Living: Concussions in Youth Sports
http://wabi.tv/2016/03/29/healthy-livin ... th-sports/
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"RESULTS: The introduction of mandatory head and facial protection has been effective in virtually eliminating ocular, facial, and dental injuries in youth hockey, but it has also been problematically linked with an increase in catastrophic spinal injuries. Players adopt a false sense of security when donning the equipment, leading them to take excessive and unwarranted risks because of the protection they are supposedly afforded. The addition of these protective devices has also altered how officials perceive game situations, leading them to be more lenient in administering penalties. The net result has been an increase in illegal and injurious behaviors, such as checking from behind."
Hockey helmets, face masks, and injurious behavior
Read study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/7862484/
Hockey helmets, face masks, and injurious behavior
Read study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/7862484/
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Annabell May
"The U12A Girls Shehawks had an extraordinary first weekend of April.
Coming off a four-overtime win against Cape Cod, the girls had a huge obstacle to overcome in the semifinals against Hingham.
On Saturday the Shehawks played an incredible game against an undefeated Hingham team and came away with a 3-2 thrilling win.
After an early Hingham tally, the Shehawks answered a few minutes later as the hard forchecking line of Julianne Flynn, Madi Hohmann and Caroline Lally forced a turnover in the Hingham end that resulted in a goal as Hohmann banged in her own rebound.
Hingham scored early in the second period but the defense of Emily Hohmann, Janie Smith, Madi Richman and Makenna Monahan did a great job keeping Hingham out of South Shore’s zone. When Hingham did get shots off, goaltender Tessa Burgess stopped them.
Mary Stevenson evened the score at two in the second period.
Midway through the third period Lauren Bedford picked up a loose puck at center ice, made a move on the Hingham defense and fired a shot over the goalie’s glove for the winner.
On Sunday the Shehawks faced Walpole, for the South Shore Conference Championship. The girls came out flying. Hayley McCarthy scored the first goal early when Flynn took a shot that hit Hayley’s stick and was redirected into the goal.
Left wingers Flynn, Stella Spaulding and Stevenson paired up with right wingers Lally, McCarthy and Sarah Irish while the two centers Richman and Lauren Bedford, rotated through the lines. Defensively Emily Hohmann paired with Janie Smith as Madi Richman played with Makenna Monahan. Burgess was again in goal. Unfortunately, Annabell May was out with a concussion and Ava O’Donoghue was in California.
With four minutes left in the first period Sarah Irish took a lead pass from Monahan at center ice and drove past the Walpole defense then placed a perfect shot to the top corner to go ahead 2-0.
Stevenson scored late in the second period off a feed from Bedford for a 3-0 lead.
Forechecking led to a backhanded goal by Flynn, assisted by Hohmann and Lally."
U12A Wins South Shore Title
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"The U12A Girls Shehawks had an extraordinary first weekend of April.
Coming off a four-overtime win against Cape Cod, the girls had a huge obstacle to overcome in the semifinals against Hingham.
On Saturday the Shehawks played an incredible game against an undefeated Hingham team and came away with a 3-2 thrilling win.
After an early Hingham tally, the Shehawks answered a few minutes later as the hard forchecking line of Julianne Flynn, Madi Hohmann and Caroline Lally forced a turnover in the Hingham end that resulted in a goal as Hohmann banged in her own rebound.
Hingham scored early in the second period but the defense of Emily Hohmann, Janie Smith, Madi Richman and Makenna Monahan did a great job keeping Hingham out of South Shore’s zone. When Hingham did get shots off, goaltender Tessa Burgess stopped them.
Mary Stevenson evened the score at two in the second period.
Midway through the third period Lauren Bedford picked up a loose puck at center ice, made a move on the Hingham defense and fired a shot over the goalie’s glove for the winner.
On Sunday the Shehawks faced Walpole, for the South Shore Conference Championship. The girls came out flying. Hayley McCarthy scored the first goal early when Flynn took a shot that hit Hayley’s stick and was redirected into the goal.
Left wingers Flynn, Stella Spaulding and Stevenson paired up with right wingers Lally, McCarthy and Sarah Irish while the two centers Richman and Lauren Bedford, rotated through the lines. Defensively Emily Hohmann paired with Janie Smith as Madi Richman played with Makenna Monahan. Burgess was again in goal. Unfortunately, Annabell May was out with a concussion and Ava O’Donoghue was in California.
With four minutes left in the first period Sarah Irish took a lead pass from Monahan at center ice and drove past the Walpole defense then placed a perfect shot to the top corner to go ahead 2-0.
Stevenson scored late in the second period off a feed from Bedford for a 3-0 lead.
Forechecking led to a backhanded goal by Flynn, assisted by Hohmann and Lally."
U12A Wins South Shore Title
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Good Questions
Great article for hockey parents, especially those dealing with injured daughters
"I had to let it go, and it was hard, harder than it should have been. As a parent you sometimes have to ask yourself tricky questions.
When did her experience become mine?
How do you match up what you want for your kids with what they want for themselves?
How do you help them pursue their passions and not yours?
How do you deal if you still want something for them that they don't want for themselves?"
When your child is ready to say goodbye to sports but you aren't
http://espn.go.com/espnw/voices/article ... bye-sports
"I had to let it go, and it was hard, harder than it should have been. As a parent you sometimes have to ask yourself tricky questions.
When did her experience become mine?
How do you match up what you want for your kids with what they want for themselves?
How do you help them pursue their passions and not yours?
How do you deal if you still want something for them that they don't want for themselves?"
When your child is ready to say goodbye to sports but you aren't
http://espn.go.com/espnw/voices/article ... bye-sports
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"The recent revelations about head injuries in football creates another major barrier to getting more girls involved in the sport. “Until we learn more about concussions as a society, I think that is going to hold back younger girls from playing,” says Head Coach Scott McCarron.
Right now, women’s football is in the same position that women’s hockey was back in the early ’80s. USA Hockey hosted the first USA National Championships for girls in 1980 and women in 1981. Since then, its been an uphill battle for women’s hockey. Finally in 2015, the first Professional Women’s Hockey League to pay its players was founded: the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL). Looking back at the twenty years it took the NWHL, it’s clear women’s football has a long way to go.
Still, the attention has brought renewed focus on preventing head injuries, and the appeal of the sport, both for players and the masses, is undeniable. Perhaps, given time, women’s football will follow the path of women’s hockey, which last year saw the creation of the Professional Women’s Hockey League, the first of its kind in the country."
Special Breed Seattle Majestics Women's Tackle Football League
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Right now, women’s football is in the same position that women’s hockey was back in the early ’80s. USA Hockey hosted the first USA National Championships for girls in 1980 and women in 1981. Since then, its been an uphill battle for women’s hockey. Finally in 2015, the first Professional Women’s Hockey League to pay its players was founded: the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL). Looking back at the twenty years it took the NWHL, it’s clear women’s football has a long way to go.
Still, the attention has brought renewed focus on preventing head injuries, and the appeal of the sport, both for players and the masses, is undeniable. Perhaps, given time, women’s football will follow the path of women’s hockey, which last year saw the creation of the Professional Women’s Hockey League, the first of its kind in the country."
Special Breed Seattle Majestics Women's Tackle Football League
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What does it take to shock a neurologist?
"Now chief of the Florida Centre for Headache and Sports Neurology, head of the Florida high school athletic concussion committee and team neurologist for the NHL’s Florida Panthers, Conidi was in Vancouver this week to present a paper adding more weight to the link between football and traumatic brain injury.
But hockey, his first love, doesn’t get off the hook.
...He adds: “Hockey has the highest incidence of concussion per participant, at any level. Look at the physics: force equals mass times acceleration. You’ve got higher mass now, higher acceleration in modern hockey. These guys are getting banged at a much higher rate.”
Neurologist ‘shocked’ by latest brain injury findings for ex-NFL players
Read more: http://vancouversun.com/sports/football ... fl-players
"Now chief of the Florida Centre for Headache and Sports Neurology, head of the Florida high school athletic concussion committee and team neurologist for the NHL’s Florida Panthers, Conidi was in Vancouver this week to present a paper adding more weight to the link between football and traumatic brain injury.
But hockey, his first love, doesn’t get off the hook.
...He adds: “Hockey has the highest incidence of concussion per participant, at any level. Look at the physics: force equals mass times acceleration. You’ve got higher mass now, higher acceleration in modern hockey. These guys are getting banged at a much higher rate.”
Neurologist ‘shocked’ by latest brain injury findings for ex-NFL players
Read more: http://vancouversun.com/sports/football ... fl-players
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Dr. Ann McKee
"Dr. Ann McKee, who is also Chief of Neuropathology at the VA Boston Healthcare System, says symptoms of CTE "in older individuals looks symptomatically a lot like Alzheimer's Disease."
But in younger individuals, "in their 20's and 30's, "McKee says CTE "is often a change in their personality and behavior. They become very irritable, have a short fuse, become depressed [or] become violent."
McKee echoed a growing concern voiced by football critics, saying that the sport may in fact be too dangerous for young people to play.
"Their brains are still developing. We think that the juvenile or adolescent brain is particularly at risk," she said. "They don't handle changes in blood flow very easily. The [young] brain is particularly susceptible to damage from head trauma."
McKee believes it's not just football that's dangerous to young people's brains. "Any athletic activity that causes head impacts is at risk. So soccer, with heading particularly," as well as other activities like ice hockey, rugby are a risk—including "occasionally baseball and basketball."
A 2010 study by medical journal Pediatrics reported a surge in youth-related basketball injuries, adding that nearly 40,000 children had to be treated in emergency rooms for hits sustained in basketball games.
In the last several years, the league has designed new helmets to cushion players from concussions. That, McKee said, "will never be the answer."
Although helmet design has helped prevent "sudden death in football…they weren't designed really to mitigate the effects of these acceleration/deceleration injuries that occur and rotational injuries that occur with concussion."
Fundamental change to the games, she said, is needed to ensure safety.
"Awareness is greater than 10 years ago," but we "need to get 'playing with the head' out of all games. People are taking head injury very seriously…but it will take education with players and coaches and families, to eliminate as much head contact as possible."
NFL needs big changes to concussion policy, and so does everyone else: Expert
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/24/nfl-need ... #pq=Mb24jV
But in younger individuals, "in their 20's and 30's, "McKee says CTE "is often a change in their personality and behavior. They become very irritable, have a short fuse, become depressed [or] become violent."
McKee echoed a growing concern voiced by football critics, saying that the sport may in fact be too dangerous for young people to play.
"Their brains are still developing. We think that the juvenile or adolescent brain is particularly at risk," she said. "They don't handle changes in blood flow very easily. The [young] brain is particularly susceptible to damage from head trauma."
McKee believes it's not just football that's dangerous to young people's brains. "Any athletic activity that causes head impacts is at risk. So soccer, with heading particularly," as well as other activities like ice hockey, rugby are a risk—including "occasionally baseball and basketball."
A 2010 study by medical journal Pediatrics reported a surge in youth-related basketball injuries, adding that nearly 40,000 children had to be treated in emergency rooms for hits sustained in basketball games.
In the last several years, the league has designed new helmets to cushion players from concussions. That, McKee said, "will never be the answer."
Although helmet design has helped prevent "sudden death in football…they weren't designed really to mitigate the effects of these acceleration/deceleration injuries that occur and rotational injuries that occur with concussion."
Fundamental change to the games, she said, is needed to ensure safety.
"Awareness is greater than 10 years ago," but we "need to get 'playing with the head' out of all games. People are taking head injury very seriously…but it will take education with players and coaches and families, to eliminate as much head contact as possible."
NFL needs big changes to concussion policy, and so does everyone else: Expert
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/24/nfl-need ... #pq=Mb24jV
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“If you have a 10-year history in collision sport, you have a 25-fold greater risk of having cognitive problems,” Galetta said. “In the 12 years I played, I would have all the factors that are now emerging as high risk. I do think about it very much. I love football. I love watching it. It gave me a tremendous advantage in understanding teamwork, in overcoming adversity. But I have deep concerns as a parent. I would likely advise not doing it. There are other sports that teach you the same principles without colliding your head.”
Galetta, a leading neuro-ophthalmologist, and colleague Dr. Laura Balcer, vice-chair of neurology and co-director of Langone’s concussion centre, are among medical professionals drawn to the new scourge of sports concussions and chronic brain disease from other areas of neurology.
...“There is no substitute for a parent’s judgment, or anyone’s judgment, that a child should come out of a game,” she says. “The KD test is helpful when there’s ambiguity. But there is no be-all and end-all test for concussion.”
...What’s more concerning to Galetta and Balcer are the 99 percent whose careers in youth sports must be weighed on the risk-reward scale of a mounting public health issue.
“The real problem is at the youth level, where two-thirds of sports concussions occur, and there’s no way you can have athletic trainers there,” Galetta said. “Parents need to be empowered, or have a group of people who know exactly what should happen, if their kid appears to have a meaningful injury. Emerging scientific evidence is showing that banging your head on a repetitive basis is not a good idea. For some, it could be catastrophic.”
The greatest obstacle in getting that message through is sometimes the athletes themselves. A Penn study involving 250 respondents, lured by a $5 Starbucks gift card, asked if they had tried to hide a previous concussion.
Forty-three percent replied in the affirmative; another 22 percent said they would do it again.
“Studies have shown concussions are reported 10 times more frequently after a season than in the season,” Galena explains. “Undetected or unreported concussions are actually far more frequent. So, we still have a lot of education to do.”
Neurologists admit youth concussions a scary part of contact sports
Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/touch/story.html?id=11871728
Galetta, a leading neuro-ophthalmologist, and colleague Dr. Laura Balcer, vice-chair of neurology and co-director of Langone’s concussion centre, are among medical professionals drawn to the new scourge of sports concussions and chronic brain disease from other areas of neurology.
...“There is no substitute for a parent’s judgment, or anyone’s judgment, that a child should come out of a game,” she says. “The KD test is helpful when there’s ambiguity. But there is no be-all and end-all test for concussion.”
...What’s more concerning to Galetta and Balcer are the 99 percent whose careers in youth sports must be weighed on the risk-reward scale of a mounting public health issue.
“The real problem is at the youth level, where two-thirds of sports concussions occur, and there’s no way you can have athletic trainers there,” Galetta said. “Parents need to be empowered, or have a group of people who know exactly what should happen, if their kid appears to have a meaningful injury. Emerging scientific evidence is showing that banging your head on a repetitive basis is not a good idea. For some, it could be catastrophic.”
The greatest obstacle in getting that message through is sometimes the athletes themselves. A Penn study involving 250 respondents, lured by a $5 Starbucks gift card, asked if they had tried to hide a previous concussion.
Forty-three percent replied in the affirmative; another 22 percent said they would do it again.
“Studies have shown concussions are reported 10 times more frequently after a season than in the season,” Galena explains. “Undetected or unreported concussions are actually far more frequent. So, we still have a lot of education to do.”
Neurologists admit youth concussions a scary part of contact sports
Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/touch/story.html?id=11871728
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National Athletic Trainers' Association - “Playing Through
"Conclusions: Athletes who do not immediately report symptoms of a concussion and continue to participate in athletic activity are at risk for longer recoveries than athletes who immediately report symptoms and are immediately removed from activity. Continuing to participate in athletic activity during the immediate aftermath of a concussion potentially exposes the already injured brain to compounded neuropathophysiologic processes."
National Athletic Trainers' Association - “Playing Through It”: Delayed Reporting and Removal From Athletic Activity After Concussion Predicts Prolonged Recovery
Read the study: http://natajournals.org/doi/abs/10.4085 ... 50-51.5.02
National Athletic Trainers' Association - “Playing Through It”: Delayed Reporting and Removal From Athletic Activity After Concussion Predicts Prolonged Recovery
Read the study: http://natajournals.org/doi/abs/10.4085 ... 50-51.5.02
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Long after brain trauma, sleep problems persist
"At least 18 months after sustaining a traumatic brain injury, first-time concussion victims continue to need more sleep and to suffer more daytime sleepiness than do healthy people, says new research. But even as they run higher risks of such injuries as vehicle crashes, sufferers routinely underestimate both their sleepiness and their increased sleep need, the study finds."
Long after brain trauma, sleep problems persist
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencen ... story.html
Long after brain trauma, sleep problems persist
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencen ... story.html
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Youth Football Players May Suffer Long-Term Brain Damage
"While concussions tend to dominate headlines when it comes to athletes and head trauma, repeated hits to the head may be resulting in long-term brain damage for youths even if they don't suffer concussions, according to a studypublished online in the Journal of Neurotrauma in April.
Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine examined data from 24 high school varsity football players who wore helmets that recorded each impact they endured during practices and games. The players went through a battery of neuropsychological tests and MRIs both before and after the season, allowing the researchers to compare their preseason baselines to their postseason results. Using diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI), the researchers sought to determine whether a single season of high school football resulted in changes to players' brain tissues.
Even after excluding the results of players who suffered diagnosed concussions throughout the season, the study authors discovered changes in the cellular microstructure of the remaining players' brains. Those changes had a statistically significant relationship with the number of head impacts players endured throughout the season and the acceleration of each impact. They did not, however, discover a statistically significant relationship between decreases in players' neuropsychological-testing results and changes in their brain tissue.
"Our findings add to a growing body of literature demonstrating that a single season of contact sports can result in brain changes regardless of clinical findings or concussion diagnosis," said senior author Dr. Joseph Maldjian, director of the advanced neuroscience imaging research lab at UT Southwestern's Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, in a statement.
Maldijan and his colleagues stressed the need for further research into this topic, given the study's small sample size and the possibility of a concussion going undiagnosed. However, it adds to a growing body of research suggesting youth athletes could be experiencing long-term changes to their brains even if they don't suffer concussions.
In 2011, researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center found brain scans of high school hockey and football players sometimes showed subtle hints of injury even if the players didn't suffer concussions. A study published online in the open-access journal PLOS ONE in 2014 found some football players' brains may not fully recover from hits endured during the season even after six months of no-contact rest. That same year, a study published online in JAMA found the number of years college football players have spent playing the sport has a significant inverse relationship to the volume of a portion of their brains associated with memory.
Concussions, unsurprisingly, also may have longer-term effects even after symptoms subside. A study published in the journal Brain Pathology in 2011found people who suffer even a single traumatic brain injury (such as concussions) could have permanent changes in their brain. In 2012, a study published in The Journal of Neuroscience found children still have changes in their brains months after suffering a concussion, even if they're symptom-free.
None of these studies definitively conclude that youth athletes shouldn't engage in contact sports, as the science is still far too nascent to make such proclamations. Youth athletes and parents should be aware, however, that concussions aren't necessarily the lone long-term concern when it comes to head impacts."
Youth Football Players May Suffer Long-Term Brain Damage After One Season
Read more: http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=2592 ... l-eu-news3
Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine examined data from 24 high school varsity football players who wore helmets that recorded each impact they endured during practices and games. The players went through a battery of neuropsychological tests and MRIs both before and after the season, allowing the researchers to compare their preseason baselines to their postseason results. Using diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI), the researchers sought to determine whether a single season of high school football resulted in changes to players' brain tissues.
Even after excluding the results of players who suffered diagnosed concussions throughout the season, the study authors discovered changes in the cellular microstructure of the remaining players' brains. Those changes had a statistically significant relationship with the number of head impacts players endured throughout the season and the acceleration of each impact. They did not, however, discover a statistically significant relationship between decreases in players' neuropsychological-testing results and changes in their brain tissue.
"Our findings add to a growing body of literature demonstrating that a single season of contact sports can result in brain changes regardless of clinical findings or concussion diagnosis," said senior author Dr. Joseph Maldjian, director of the advanced neuroscience imaging research lab at UT Southwestern's Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, in a statement.
Maldijan and his colleagues stressed the need for further research into this topic, given the study's small sample size and the possibility of a concussion going undiagnosed. However, it adds to a growing body of research suggesting youth athletes could be experiencing long-term changes to their brains even if they don't suffer concussions.
In 2011, researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center found brain scans of high school hockey and football players sometimes showed subtle hints of injury even if the players didn't suffer concussions. A study published online in the open-access journal PLOS ONE in 2014 found some football players' brains may not fully recover from hits endured during the season even after six months of no-contact rest. That same year, a study published online in JAMA found the number of years college football players have spent playing the sport has a significant inverse relationship to the volume of a portion of their brains associated with memory.
Concussions, unsurprisingly, also may have longer-term effects even after symptoms subside. A study published in the journal Brain Pathology in 2011found people who suffer even a single traumatic brain injury (such as concussions) could have permanent changes in their brain. In 2012, a study published in The Journal of Neuroscience found children still have changes in their brains months after suffering a concussion, even if they're symptom-free.
None of these studies definitively conclude that youth athletes shouldn't engage in contact sports, as the science is still far too nascent to make such proclamations. Youth athletes and parents should be aware, however, that concussions aren't necessarily the lone long-term concern when it comes to head impacts."
Youth Football Players May Suffer Long-Term Brain Damage After One Season
Read more: http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=2592 ... l-eu-news3
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article 551 plus
"When Hollywood tackles a medical issue, such as in the film Concussion, it is worth pausing to consider the issue in question. In practice, the terms concussion and mild traumatic brain injury are used interchangeably. However, for the 10% or more of patients demonstrating persisting neurocognitive dysfunction after concussion, there is nothing mild about it.1 Furthermore, a history of multiple concussions has been associated with increased risk of neurodegenerative disease, in particular, chronic traumatic encephalopathy,2 which is the subject of Concussion.
Contrary to the all too common animations illustrating the brain slamming back and forth inside the skull, the principal mechanical basis of concussion is likely to be head rotational acceleration.3 A consequence of these rotational forces is rapid deformation of the brain resulting in tissue damage, particularly to vulnerable white matter axons. During normal movement, axons can stretch to at least twice their resting length and relax back, unharmed. However, very rapid stretching, such as that which occurs with concussion, results in components of the axon becoming stiffer, resulting in breakage of axonal microtubules, a pathology known as diffuse axonal injury. Intriguingly, computational modelling suggests that the viscoelastic Achilles' heel in axons is the microtubule stabilising protein tau.4
A consequence of microtubule damage is interruption of axonal transport, leading to protein accumulation in axonal swellings at sites of injury. However, although axonal swelling is evidence of diffuse axonal injury, the vast majority of injured axons appear morphologically normal after traumatic brain injury, even in severe cases. Nevertheless, in many of these normal-appearing axons, there is likely dysregulation of sodium channels resulting in impaired action potential, a potential physiological substrate for the common symptoms of concussion, such as decreased processing speed, memory disturbance, and loss of consciousness. Accompanying this sodium influx is an increase in intra-axonal calcium, leading to activation of proteases and inevitable axonal degeneration.5 As such, the so called mild injury of concussion could result in permanent axonal loss."
Tackling concussion, beyond Hollywood
Read more: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneu ... 0/fulltext
Contrary to the all too common animations illustrating the brain slamming back and forth inside the skull, the principal mechanical basis of concussion is likely to be head rotational acceleration.3 A consequence of these rotational forces is rapid deformation of the brain resulting in tissue damage, particularly to vulnerable white matter axons. During normal movement, axons can stretch to at least twice their resting length and relax back, unharmed. However, very rapid stretching, such as that which occurs with concussion, results in components of the axon becoming stiffer, resulting in breakage of axonal microtubules, a pathology known as diffuse axonal injury. Intriguingly, computational modelling suggests that the viscoelastic Achilles' heel in axons is the microtubule stabilising protein tau.4
A consequence of microtubule damage is interruption of axonal transport, leading to protein accumulation in axonal swellings at sites of injury. However, although axonal swelling is evidence of diffuse axonal injury, the vast majority of injured axons appear morphologically normal after traumatic brain injury, even in severe cases. Nevertheless, in many of these normal-appearing axons, there is likely dysregulation of sodium channels resulting in impaired action potential, a potential physiological substrate for the common symptoms of concussion, such as decreased processing speed, memory disturbance, and loss of consciousness. Accompanying this sodium influx is an increase in intra-axonal calcium, leading to activation of proteases and inevitable axonal degeneration.5 As such, the so called mild injury of concussion could result in permanent axonal loss."
Tackling concussion, beyond Hollywood
Read more: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneu ... 0/fulltext
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Soon coming to Minnesota?????
"Concussions are increasingly a part of the sports scene because of increasing recognition of effects on the brain for a player who suffers one. In professional sports, many players have retired from the cumulative effects of concussions.
While it is routine in scholastic sports to have someone at a game who has been trained in the signs of concussions, it's not always the case in other sporting events. Legislature Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo says there should be.
"It's going to require that anybody that's involved in youth sports where there are collisions be versed in concussion protocol and require them to maintain that certification on a biannual basis," Lorigo said.
The measure stalled for a few weeks until Lorigo and Legislator Patrick Burke, who both have young children, worked out an agreement to ensure there were free sources for the training.
The measure is backed by UB's Dr. John Leddy, a national expert on concussions and medical director of the university's Concussion Management Clinic.
"It's important that somebody who can observe the kids for any potential signs of concussion, like they are not acting right or they're off balance after being hit, for someone to recognize some of the symptoms of concussion, such as they come off saying they are dizzy or they can't remember the last play," Leddy said.
Leddy says it's not unusual for some player to arrive at his clinic with serious problems because that player was allowed to stay in a game after suffering a concussion without being observed and then suffering another in the same game."
Concussion spotters may be required at all Erie County sporting events
Read more: http://news.wbfo.org/post/concussion-sp ... ing-events
While it is routine in scholastic sports to have someone at a game who has been trained in the signs of concussions, it's not always the case in other sporting events. Legislature Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo says there should be.
"It's going to require that anybody that's involved in youth sports where there are collisions be versed in concussion protocol and require them to maintain that certification on a biannual basis," Lorigo said.
The measure stalled for a few weeks until Lorigo and Legislator Patrick Burke, who both have young children, worked out an agreement to ensure there were free sources for the training.
The measure is backed by UB's Dr. John Leddy, a national expert on concussions and medical director of the university's Concussion Management Clinic.
"It's important that somebody who can observe the kids for any potential signs of concussion, like they are not acting right or they're off balance after being hit, for someone to recognize some of the symptoms of concussion, such as they come off saying they are dizzy or they can't remember the last play," Leddy said.
Leddy says it's not unusual for some player to arrive at his clinic with serious problems because that player was allowed to stay in a game after suffering a concussion without being observed and then suffering another in the same game."
Concussion spotters may be required at all Erie County sporting events
Read more: http://news.wbfo.org/post/concussion-sp ... ing-events
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Guest blog added to Paige Decker blog
Guest blog added to Paige Decker blog
Concussion Blog
Guest Post: A Visual Depiction of Concussion
May 13, 2016
Sarah Renberg suffered severe concussion during a hockey game as a junior in high school. The injury ended her hockey career and has left her struggling with symptoms for over a year. Despite some of her physical and mental handicaps, she has taken to drawing as a way of depicting her own struggle in a very profound and eye-opening way.
The drawings speak for themselves.
See the drawings at: http://www.theinvisibleinjury.net/blog/ ... concussion
Concussion Blog
Guest Post: A Visual Depiction of Concussion
May 13, 2016
Sarah Renberg suffered severe concussion during a hockey game as a junior in high school. The injury ended her hockey career and has left her struggling with symptoms for over a year. Despite some of her physical and mental handicaps, she has taken to drawing as a way of depicting her own struggle in a very profound and eye-opening way.
The drawings speak for themselves.
See the drawings at: http://www.theinvisibleinjury.net/blog/ ... concussion
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3 different concussion tweets
Darcy Peter
“I have a bruise on my elbow, my calf, both of my knees, and a concussion... Hockey: 5 Darcy: 0”
“Darcy Peter, be careful with a concussion! I was just studying those in neuro.” Johnathan Cannon
https://mobile.twitter.com/darcylpeter/ ... 1364072448
Emma Hatch
“I got another concussion from hockey it’s like the 2nd one in 2 months and now can’t play the rest of the season.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/hxtchfiles/s ... 0139490309
Steve Ewen
“Game has changed. Concussions are scary business. And with year-round hockey, it's less and less blue collar.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveEwen?p=i
“I have a bruise on my elbow, my calf, both of my knees, and a concussion... Hockey: 5 Darcy: 0”
“Darcy Peter, be careful with a concussion! I was just studying those in neuro.” Johnathan Cannon
https://mobile.twitter.com/darcylpeter/ ... 1364072448
Emma Hatch
“I got another concussion from hockey it’s like the 2nd one in 2 months and now can’t play the rest of the season.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/hxtchfiles/s ... 0139490309
Steve Ewen
“Game has changed. Concussions are scary business. And with year-round hockey, it's less and less blue collar.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveEwen?p=i
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Concussions Can Hurt Your Sleep Far Longer Than Experts Thought
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2016/05/0 ... 45590.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2016/05/0 ... 45590.html
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Al Johnson
"Members of the Minnesota Blackjacks, an adult hockey team, are crying foul after they were banned from the Minnesota Wild Adult Hockey League in March without rhyme or reason, they say.
“I think a lot of teams are envious of us because we’re a good hockey team,” Al Johnson, a Blackjacks defensive player, gently insisted.
“It’s like a conspiracy against us for being successful,” Johnson said of the sudden boot.
The Blackjacks had an impressive 80-2 record over the past five years. Not bad for team consisting of male players in their 40s through late 50s.
Johnson himself hasn’t played over the past year due to a concussion he endured in 2015 at the hands of a league opponent,
“We took a lot of abuse,” nodded Johnson, “sticks, checking, mostly verbal though calling us old men and all that stuff, [ageism], a lot of swearing.” Johnson recalls of his opponents behavior.
The Minnesota Blackjacks’ record is why Johnson believes the team received a letter from the league manager, skipping the penalty box completely, ejecting the Blackjacks from the league.
“Everybody’s bummed out, everybody’s lost. We want to play.”
Adult hockey team banned for being too good, players claim
http://www.fox9.com/news/140105528-story
"Members of the Minnesota Blackjacks, an adult hockey team, are crying foul after they were banned from the Minnesota Wild Adult Hockey League in March without rhyme or reason, they say.
“I think a lot of teams are envious of us because we’re a good hockey team,” Al Johnson, a Blackjacks defensive player, gently insisted.
“It’s like a conspiracy against us for being successful,” Johnson said of the sudden boot.
The Blackjacks had an impressive 80-2 record over the past five years. Not bad for team consisting of male players in their 40s through late 50s.
Johnson himself hasn’t played over the past year due to a concussion he endured in 2015 at the hands of a league opponent,
“We took a lot of abuse,” nodded Johnson, “sticks, checking, mostly verbal though calling us old men and all that stuff, [ageism], a lot of swearing.” Johnson recalls of his opponents behavior.
The Minnesota Blackjacks’ record is why Johnson believes the team received a letter from the league manager, skipping the penalty box completely, ejecting the Blackjacks from the league.
“Everybody’s bummed out, everybody’s lost. We want to play.”
Adult hockey team banned for being too good, players claim
http://www.fox9.com/news/140105528-story
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Video at: http://usatodayhss.com/2016/family-of-f ... ain-injury
Family of Florida girls lax player sues district, FHSAA after traumatic brain injury
A Central Florida girls lacrosse player and her family have filed a negligence lawsuit against the student athlete’s school district and the Florida High School Athletic Association, citing negligence that allegedly led to a traumatic brain injury following a violent check to her head during a game.
As reported by Orlando ABC affiliate WFTV, the family of East River lacrosse defender Kendalle Holley claims she suffered a concussion after she was hit in the head by an opponent’s stick during a game in the 2015 season, but wasn’t evaluated immediately after the event, so she kept playing. It was later determined she had suffered a concussion, though the head trauma wasn’t diagnosed until after the game had concluded, by which point Holley was vomiting and barely able to walk, according to this WFTV report.
The Holley family claims the delay in diagnosing her concussion made her symptoms significantly worse, leading to a month out of school and regressing grades in school.
“I went from like a 4.0 student to failing my tests and not being able to comprehend and my (end of course exams),” Holley told WFTV.
Now the Holleys want to hold the Orange County School District and FHSAA accountable for not doing enough to protect her once the concussion had already been sustained. As coaches and referees aren’t trained to diagnose a concussion in the state of Florida, it is of paramount importance that an athletic trainer be on site during an event. The Orange County School District reportedly employs some 30 trainers, but admits that individual schools often use trainers to work multiple events on a single campus simultaneously with the help of student trainers. That explains why no trainer was available to diagnose Holley’s condition in a timely manner, all while underscoring how the fact that no trainer was available until after the game could indeed have had a significant impact on Holley’s ability to recover.
The decision could prove a watershed moment in the fight to require more athletic trainers be available on campuses across the nation depending on how the case unfolds.
Family of Florida girls lax player sues district, FHSAA after traumatic brain injury
A Central Florida girls lacrosse player and her family have filed a negligence lawsuit against the student athlete’s school district and the Florida High School Athletic Association, citing negligence that allegedly led to a traumatic brain injury following a violent check to her head during a game.
As reported by Orlando ABC affiliate WFTV, the family of East River lacrosse defender Kendalle Holley claims she suffered a concussion after she was hit in the head by an opponent’s stick during a game in the 2015 season, but wasn’t evaluated immediately after the event, so she kept playing. It was later determined she had suffered a concussion, though the head trauma wasn’t diagnosed until after the game had concluded, by which point Holley was vomiting and barely able to walk, according to this WFTV report.
The Holley family claims the delay in diagnosing her concussion made her symptoms significantly worse, leading to a month out of school and regressing grades in school.
“I went from like a 4.0 student to failing my tests and not being able to comprehend and my (end of course exams),” Holley told WFTV.
Now the Holleys want to hold the Orange County School District and FHSAA accountable for not doing enough to protect her once the concussion had already been sustained. As coaches and referees aren’t trained to diagnose a concussion in the state of Florida, it is of paramount importance that an athletic trainer be on site during an event. The Orange County School District reportedly employs some 30 trainers, but admits that individual schools often use trainers to work multiple events on a single campus simultaneously with the help of student trainers. That explains why no trainer was available to diagnose Holley’s condition in a timely manner, all while underscoring how the fact that no trainer was available until after the game could indeed have had a significant impact on Holley’s ability to recover.
The decision could prove a watershed moment in the fight to require more athletic trainers be available on campuses across the nation depending on how the case unfolds.
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from the Mayo clinic
"You don't have to hit your head. A sudden impact anywhere on the body can cause a concussion."
The Hard-Hitting Facts About Concussion - Infographics - Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center
https://sportsmedicine.mayoclinic.org/m ... d=24253761
The Hard-Hitting Facts About Concussion - Infographics - Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center
https://sportsmedicine.mayoclinic.org/m ... d=24253761
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"A new study from the University of Arizona showed that a concussion can make you susceptible to viruses, infection and pain in other parts of the body.
Research from the University of Arizona College of Medicine showed that a brain injury can affect the entire body.
“What we showed is that brain actually suppresses the regulation of the immune system,” Dr. Jonathan Lifshitz, director of the Translational Neurotrauma Research Program at Barrow’s Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, said.
“There are cells, that are called regulatory T-Cells, that try to regulate the immune system,” Lifshitz said. “They appear to be damaged, so that once you get a second infection, the immune system is not quite able to mount an appropriate immune response.”
The research found the immune system is highly activated following a brain injury, such as concussions. In fact, it’s so activated that immune-active molecules migrate to the body from the brain, leading to pain in another part of the body."
The research was featured in the May 13 edition of the scientific journal called “Molecular Pain.”
Concussions can lead to problems elsewhere in body
Read more: http://ktar.com/story/1078595/ua-resear ... e-in-body/
Research from the University of Arizona College of Medicine showed that a brain injury can affect the entire body.
“What we showed is that brain actually suppresses the regulation of the immune system,” Dr. Jonathan Lifshitz, director of the Translational Neurotrauma Research Program at Barrow’s Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, said.
“There are cells, that are called regulatory T-Cells, that try to regulate the immune system,” Lifshitz said. “They appear to be damaged, so that once you get a second infection, the immune system is not quite able to mount an appropriate immune response.”
The research found the immune system is highly activated following a brain injury, such as concussions. In fact, it’s so activated that immune-active molecules migrate to the body from the brain, leading to pain in another part of the body."
The research was featured in the May 13 edition of the scientific journal called “Molecular Pain.”
Concussions can lead to problems elsewhere in body
Read more: http://ktar.com/story/1078595/ua-resear ... e-in-body/
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From The New York Times:
Six Head Injury Suits Filed in New Front Against Colleges and N.C.A.A.
Six cases were filed on Tuesday in a new effort by athletes to get financial relief for the lasting effects from concussions sustained in college.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/sport ... wrsm=Email
Six Head Injury Suits Filed in New Front Against Colleges and N.C.A.A.
Six cases were filed on Tuesday in a new effort by athletes to get financial relief for the lasting effects from concussions sustained in college.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/sport ... wrsm=Email
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"Research has shown the rate of concussions in girls soccer is high. Soccer has the second-highest frequency of head injuries among female athletes behind ice hockey."
Concussions in girls soccer lead to changes in training, diagnosis
Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/e ... story.html
Concussions in girls soccer lead to changes in training, diagnosis
Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/e ... story.html