Researchers are using smart helmets and imaging to study brain injury risk in young football players over a season.
The new study also found that about a fifth of the high school players with afatal brain injuryhad suffered an earlier concussion less than a month before the fatal injury.
WASHINGTON, DC — A new study shows that retired National Football League (NFL) players experience more headaches than the general population and suggests their headache and concussion history are associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI). As well, almost all retired players in this small study ...
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 we are going to help you.'" ...
In the first study, researchers studied youth football players without history of concussion to identify the effect of repeated subconcussive impacts on the DMN. "Over a season of football, players are exposed to numerous head impacts. The vast majority of these do not result in concussion," ...
BOSTON (CBS 5) - A new study appears to have identified a pattern matching repeated brain injury among football players with permanent impairment. In the biggest study of its kind,researchers at Boston University analyzed the brainsof deceased athletes and veterans (all of who had history of r...
"So really for the first time in a series of players we have shown that there is evidence that head injury has occurred earlier in their life which presumably has some impact on them developing dementia." Dr David Reynolds from the charity Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "The causes of dem...
Brain injuries are common in professional American football players. Finding effective rehabilitation strategies can have widespread implications not only for retired players but also for patients with traumatic brain injury and substance abuse problems. An open label pragmatic clinical intervention was conduc...
The study has several limitations, including that it is a skewed sample based on a brain donation program because public awareness of a possible link between repetitive head trauma and CTE may have motivated players and their families with symptoms and signs of brain injury to participate in this...
Acute effects and recovery time following concussion in collegiate football players: the NCAA Concussion Study. CONTEXT: Lack of empirical data on recovery time following sport-related concussion hampers clinical decision making about return to play after injury. OBJ... M Mccrea,KM Guskiewicz,SW ...