NEW YORK (AP) --Two dozenhigh school football playersdied in recent years from traumatic brain andspinal cord injuries, and the annual death count has been growing slightly, according to a new study. But such deaths remain rare, and are far lower than in decades past. Also, it’s not c...
Researchers are using smart helmets and imaging to study brain injury risk in young football players over a season.
Some players with elevated biomarker levels had never been diagnosed with a concussion, suggesting there are milder brain injuries that aren’t diagnosed clinically, but can still cause damage. These injuries are also known as subconcussive injuries.“A number of football players...
He said the results revealed damage on both sides of the hippocampus, and "the best explanation is it's the recurrent head injury." Herman's scan was positive for the tau tangles. A different scan had ruled out Alzheimer's. The diagnosis was CTE. "This is the first time this test has...
Concussions and other forms of brain injury have become one of the biggest worries in sports from soccer to ice hockey. In America the National Football League, which governs American football, has had to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to brain-damaged players. 从足球到冰球等体育运动...
Even without concussion, some high school football players can have impairment. ByABC News October 10, 2010, 12:59 AMOct. 9, 2010 -- Some high school football players can have neurological impairment without suffering a concussion, researchers found. That group of players had a significa...
-- The body of an Ohio State University football player who apparently committed suicide will be examined for signs of brain injury, the coroner's office told ABC News today. Kosta Karageorge's body was found in a dumpster on Sunday, dead from what appeared to be a self-infli...
Football injury report. In: 2001-2002 NCAA Injury Surveillance System. Indianapolis, Ind: National Collegiate Athletic Association; 2002. 16. Committee on Head Injury Nomenclature of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Glossary of head injury including some definitions of injury to the cervical ...
"We're hoping that the biomarkers are actually going to give us a quantity ofinjury, rather than just saying whether this a concussion or not," said Papa. "We can say to these players, 'Yes, I can see you have had an injury because the levels of the biomarkers are elevated, and now...
According to Dr. Alon Friedman, from the Ben-Gurion University Brain Imaging Research Center and discoverer of the new diagnostic, "until now, there wasn't a diagnostic capability to identifymild brain injuryearly after the trauma. In the NFL, other professional sports and especially school sports...