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Category: Brain Injuries
Side Impact Crashes Are More Likely to Cause Traumatic Brain Injury
January 14, 2016 | Category: Brain InjuriesBrain injuries are the result of a significant percentage of car crash fatalities. Traumatic brain injury, or TBI, can also be life-changing for victims who survive, as damage to the brain can affect all aspects of your health. Symptoms of TBI range from cognitive impairment to personality and mood changes to ringing in the ears. Some patients with severe brain injuries are permanently restricted in their abilities, and others may need to re-learn basic life tasks.
U.S. Soccer Association's New Safety Initiatives Finally Addressing Head Injuries
January 6, 2016 | Category: Brain InjuriesAn agreement announced Monday, November 9, 2015 following an August 2014 lawsuit filed against U.S. Soccer, U.S. Youth Soccer, the American Youth Soccer Organization, U.S. Club Soccer and the California Youth Soccer Association includes reforms to improve concussion awareness for everyone including coaches, referees, parents and players in youth soccer, along with some uniform concussion management and return-to-play protocols, according to CNN.
Help for Traumatic Brain Injury Victims
January 5, 2016 | Category: Brain InjuriesTraumatic brain injury is one of the most devastating injuries a victim can endure. Traumatic brain injury, or TBI, is common among victims injured in motor vehicle collisions or injured as a result of a fall. TBI causes symptoms ranging from mood changes and impaired memory to seizures and ringing in the ears, and treating the condition and its symptoms is often very difficult. Now, however, Breakthroughs describes a new drug that may show some promise in the treatment of TBI.
New Report on Head Injuries from High School Football Tackling
November 25, 2015 | Category: Brain InjuriesThe high school football season is coming to an end. However, during the first seven weeks of the football season this year, there were been seven deaths across the nation attributed to blunt-force injuries to the head from tackling.
What Are Concussions And How To Avoid Them
September 18, 2015 | Category: Brain InjuriesYou cannot see it. It may become obvious right away or show up days or weeks later. When you do see evidence of it, seek medical attention right away. What is it? It is a concussion.
Tips For Staying Safe When Engaging In Wheeled Sports
July 20, 2015 | Category: Brain InjuriesOften the most serious and the most common injury people sustain while on bikes, in-line skates, or while skateboarding, is a head injury. In these types of crashes, head injuries are the leading cause of death and disability.
Study Reports New Concussion Reading Test 95% Accurate
April 13, 2015 | Category: Brain InjuriesSustaining concussions when participating in sports happens frequently. As we reported in our blog Youth Sporting Injuries - Can Someone Be Liable?, 12 percent of athletes said they had suffered either concussions or head injuries in 2013. Since participating in sports with concussions is so very dangerous, we are reporting here about a recent study done by New York University.
Youth Sporting Injuries - Can Someone Be Held Liable?
April 8, 2015 | Category: Brain InjuriesSporting injuries happen every day to youth during games and during practice - skinned knees, bruised arms/legs, broken bones. They are all part of the game, right? Well, not necessarily. It may be possible to hold certain parties liable depending on the incident.
4 Life-Changing Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
February 27, 2015 | Category: Brain InjuriesThe subject of traumatic brain injury (TBI) seems to be in the news every day. An example of this was December 1, 2014 when at least two news stories on TBI were covered.
Soccer - The Next Sport With Helmets?
November 7, 2014 | Category: Brain InjuriesEveryone knows when playing football, players wear helmets. Will soccer be next? In his front page article in the Fort Myers News-Press on Sunday October 26, "Lasting Impact - Soccer latest sport tackling the concussion issue", journalist Seth Soffian reports on the issue and cites the case of Nate Ingham.