Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
What can you do to protect, identify and treat a concussion? Scientist Julie Stamm, author of the book “The Brain on Youth Sports,” offers five tips to raise awareness. 
No comment yet.
Sign up to comment
Scoop.it!
A senate inquiry into concussion and repeated head trauma in contact sports held its first public hearing last Monday. Change is coming to sport, and it will come fast. Meanwhile, many keep battling with the effects.
Scoop.it!
People who find themselves alone after a significant knock to the head are at higher risk of harm.
Scoop.it!
James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.
Scoop.it!
T.J. Abraham’s career ended when his brain began to fail. His doctors blame football, and he is pushing for change.
Scoop.it!
Usually people recover from concussions in a few days, or weeks at most. But 1-10% will still have symptoms three months later.
Scoop.it!
Suffering a traumatic head injury is a terrifying ordeal, with serious implications for the way we live. Yet, strangely, there can be an upside. Here, four people tell Sirin Kale about their experiences
|
Scoop.it!
Women may be more susceptible to concussion, but remain significantly underrepresented within sport and exercise science research. This, leading experts warn, means they often do not get the treatment or aftercare they need following a head injury.
Scoop.it!
Treatment for concussions in kids has changed in the past 10 years. A new study confirms the recent move away from prolonged days out of school.
Scoop.it!
Brain injuries have overtaken a broken nose, jaw and fractured ankles as the most common injury requiring hospital admission among league and union players.
Scoop.it!
Then one day medical staff realised he wasn’t stuck in minimal consciousness when they were testing him with different objects.
Scoop.it!
Many educators receive little or no training in how to spot brain injuries resulting from a concussion. There are ways to improve collaboration.
Scoop.it!
There have been about 60 scooter-related incidents reported since hundreds of Lime scooters appeared in Brisbane.
|
