http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—The gridiron is back in action. From little leagues to professional teams, football frenzy has begun, and with it, concerns about concussions. But it's not just jarring tackles that can lead to concussions in kids. According to Dr. Ryan Coates, a pediatric neurologist at Loyola University Health System, there are many ways kids are exposed to concussion risks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-concussions-kids-athletes.html Health Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:10:52 EST news266141444 Most professional English football teams don't comply with international guidelines on concussion among players, which ensure they are safe to return to play, indicates research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-english-football-teams-dont-international.html Health Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:30:19 EST news266064119 Media representation of concussion management in rugby league could affect public understanding of appropriate medical care, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-concussion-treatment-rugby-league.html Health Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:38:13 EST news264235077 Concussions and even lesser head impacts may speed up the brain's natural aging process by causing signaling pathways in the brain to break down more quickly than they would in someone who has never suffered a brain injury or concussion. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-concussions-impacts-brain-aging.html Neuroscience Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:01:42 EST news262965696 (Medical Xpress) -- Rugby players and the sports media continue to underestimate the seriousness of concussion, a School of Psychology study has concluded. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-tackles-attitudes-concussion.html Health Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:40:42 EST news262600835 (Medical Xpress) -- Repeated concussions, even mild ones, can result in profound problems with learning and memory, suggests a study led by William Meehan, MD, director of the Sports Concussion Clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Michael Whalen, MD, director of the Acute Brain Injury Laboratory at MassGeneral Hospital for Children. Using a mouse model, the study documents cumulative, long-lasting impairment of brain function after repeated mild concussions, especially when they occur in close succession. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-multiple-mild-concussions-cumulative-effect.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:46:06 EST news262248133 As interest in concussion rates and prevention strategies at all levels continues to grow, one population that appears to have increasing head injury rates is collegiate football players. Research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Annual Meeting in Baltimore highlights that the concussion rate in three college football programs has doubled in recent years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-concussions-affect-college-players-high.html Health Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:01 EST news261245143 Patients vary widely in their response to concussion, but scientists haven't understood why. Now, using a new technique for analyzing data from brain imaging studies, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center have found that concussion victims have unique spatial patterns of brain abnormalities that change over time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-brain-imaging-technique-concussions-affect.html Neuroscience Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:20:01 EST news258306993 (AP) -- America's newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation of former troops the nation has ever seen. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-vets-disability.html Health Sun, 27 May 2012 14:40:45 EST news257348423 A new study suggests that head impacts experienced during contact sports such as football and hockey may worsen some college athletes' ability to acquire new information. The research is published in the May 16, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-impacts-contact-sports-college-athletes.html Neuroscience Wed, 16 May 2012 16:00:01 EST news256391926 Before beginning his 20-year career playing football in the NFL, Junior Seau starred at the University of Southern California and in high school. According to Chris Hummel, a certified athletic trainer and clinical associate professor at Ithaca College, “We don’t know yet if Seau’s suicide is directly linked to a history of concussions, but we have seen a few recent cases that makes us suspicious of such a link. What we do know is that concussions can have long term consequences, such as depression.” http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-pro-bowler-suicide-early-concussion.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 07 May 2012 07:02:17 EST news255592873 A newly developed paediatric concussion kit will help parents identify crucial signs of traumatic brain injury (TBI), one of the leading causes of acquired disability and death in children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-parents-cautioned-common-brain-injury.html Health Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:06:03 EST news254729149 Even two years later, Sarah Clark grimaces sheepishly and insists she mishandled the concussion her oldest son sustained in ninth-grade football. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-football-helmet-sensors-demystify-concussion.html Health Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:16:02 EST news253988131 A new study suggests there may be a starting point at which blows to the head or other head trauma suffered in combat sports start to affect memory and thinking abilities and can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, in the brain. The research was released today and will be presented as part of the Emerging Science (formerly known as Late-Breaking Science) program at the American Academy of Neurology's 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans April 21 to April 28, 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-trauma-sports-memory-loss.html Neuroscience Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:00:03 EST news253981272 (HealthDay) -- A new nonsurgical method for monitoring brain pressure might help improve treatment of head injury patients, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-nonsurgical-method-brain-pressure.html Medical research Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:18:53 EST news253376320 The University of Notre Dame's annual Bengal Bouts student boxing tournament's longtime mantra is "Strong Bodies Fight that Weak Bodies May Be Nourished." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-notre-dame-bengal-bouts-aid.html Medical research Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:16:11 EST news249930936 A study recently published by the University of Kentucky's Scott Livingston shows that physiological problems stemming from a concussion may continue to present in the patient even after standard symptoms subside. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-effects-concussion-longer-symptoms.html Neuroscience Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:16:47 EST news249758195 Concussions and the issues that can occur following one, continue to be a serious problem for football players. However, one simple game strategy: proper helmet fit, may be one of the easiest game winners for prevention, say researchers presenting their study at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-helmet-critical-concussion.html Health Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:28:25 EST news248174899 A new study by researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus and Pace University is critical of the widespread use of computerized neuropsychological tests (CNT) in decisions regarding when athletes can return to play after suffering a concussion. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-flags-over-reliance-return-to-plan-decisions-concussion.html Neuroscience Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:50:01 EST news247375905 (Medical Xpress) -- Imagine ice hockey without body checking and football with less hitting. What might sound blasphemous to hockey and football fans and players has more support than you may imagine. And a Michigan Tech researcher is a large part of that conversation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-hockey-football-concussions-major.html Health Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:46:25 EST news247131970 (Medical Xpress) -- Former Olympian Jarrod Shoemaker was in the middle of the swimming portion of a triathlon in Hamburg, Germany, when the swimmer in front of him accidentally kicked him in the face. Shoemaker finished the race, but could tell something was wrong with how his body was working. Three weeks later, he crashed hard from his bike onto wet pavement during a race in London, adding to his list of injuries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-concussed-triathlete-treatment-protocol.html Other Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:54:14 EST news242635705 Testing athletes for concussions may induce mental fatigue in subjects whether or not they have a head injury, according to Penn State researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-concussion.html Neuroscience Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:09:03 EST news242406534 The brain scans of high school football and hockey players showed subtle injury -- even if they did not suffer a concussion – after taking routine hits to the head during the normal course of play, according to a University of Rochester Medical Center study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-routine-school-sports-brain-injury.html Neuroscience Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:57:04 EST news240494217 (AP) -- Starting next year, a new law in New York says student athletes suspected of suffering concussions should be immediately removed from games. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-ny-require-benching-students-concussions.html Health Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:02:50 EST news236602959 (AP) -- As awareness continues to grow about sports-related concussions among student athletes, two New Jersey lawmakers say it's time for schools to start following nationwide protocols governing such injuries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-lawmakers-cdc-student-concussion-protocol.html Health Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:20:01 EST news236401145 A sideline visual test effectively detected concussions in collegiate athletes, according to a team of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Concussed athletes scored an average of 5.9 seconds slower (worse) than the best baseline scores in healthy controls on the timed test, in which athletes read a series of numbers on cards and are scored on time and accuracy. This quick visual test, easily administered on the playing field, holds promise as a complement to other diagnostic tools for sports-related concussion. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-visual-effective-concussions-collegiate-athletes.html Neuroscience Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:10:36 EST news234015006 Preliminary results from the first four brains donated to the Canadian Sports Concussion Project at the Krembil Neuroscience Centre, TorontoWesternHospital, reveal that two of the four former Canadian Football League (CFL) players suffered from a brain disease known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), while two did not show signs of CTE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-brain-autopsies-football-players-reveal.html Health Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:39:38 EST news230899167 (PhysOrg.com) -- While studying concussions in a high school football team, researchers captured the impact of an 18-year-old player who broke his neck during a head-down tackle in real-time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-breakthrough-real-time-football-player-captures.html Medical research Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:42:41 EST news230402525 Creating a baseline for each youth athlete is a critical part of accurate future concussion assessment, according to researchers presenting their study at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Annual Meeting in San Diego. Differences in how females and males scored on a standardized concussion assessment tool were also investigated. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-concussion-baseline-important-accurate-future.html Health Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:29:34 EST news229256964 A new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal by University of Calgary Faculty of Kinesiology researcher Dr. Carolyn Emery and colleagues has shown that when bodychecking is introduced into Bantam ice hockey there is no difference between overall injury rates or concussion, regardless of whether players have prior bodychecking experience in Pee Wee. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-injury-spike-bantam-bodychecking.html Health Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:29:52 EST news227791784