This is not a “nuclear” question or statement, it is an observation – brought to the forefront by Irv Muchnick of BeyondChron. Irv has the ability to write and raise questions that many do not want to address nor face,…
We have seen a snippet of what the former players have said, in this post I will pass along articles and samples of them. The underlying current is troubling for football. We have posted and posted and posted about this…
digtriad.com posted a story written by WFMY News 2 about the recent report from the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (NCCSIR); Monday, researchers at UNC Chapel Hill said catastrophic brain injuries associated with…
A group of researchers including R. Dawn Comstock released data, published earlier this year, regarding concussions what was initially found is not surprising, or shouldn’t be; Of 14,635 high-school sports injuries reported during the 2008-10 school years, 1,936 (13.2 percent) were…
Brooke de Lynch of Mom’s Team sent over this article and video about a family and their dealings with post-concussion syndrome and the long recovery after a very “innocent” looking hit. It begins as most complex cases often do, with…
Statistics are seemingly becoming a major part of all of our lives; from your favorite baseball players batting average, to the graduation rate of the school system, to your fantasy football team, to the injury rate of particular activities. Being…
OK that is highly unlikely and very egotistical of us to think so, but really if you look at what is coming out of “Camp Cantu” (as Matt Chaney says), they seem to be touting what we have been saying…
The concussion and head trauma issue has centered on organized sports, mainly football and hockey in North America. Granted those are collision sports with a high propensity of traumatic events, but what about the activities that our children partake in…
On this blog we have been presenting information that has led to me and others saying that intentional contact to the head of adolescents is not good for long-term health. What has not happened until recently is a “big name”…
With all the measures now being put into place a very interesting question is: can all high schools handle this? The simple answer to this is: NO! Required education for the coaches, parents and kids can only go so far;…
Matt Chaney has been busy this summer with work, but he found some time to forward a bunch of links regarding concussions. There were a lot dealing with the state laws and the mandates now in place across the sporting…
We have logged 21 different states putting forth legislation for head injuries in sports. The first one was in Washington with the passage of the Zachary Leystedt Law in 2009. Now the United States House of Representatives has put forth…
Jacob Resch an assistant professor at the University of Texas – Arlington just presented his findings about ImPACT testing and its reliability. I was privy to a media release of the information, here it is in full (bold is my…
Irvin Muchnick is a writer and investigative journalist writing focusing mainly on the WWE. Muchnick has been heavily involved in the concussion issue in the WWE and its crossover as well. Irv has been and will continue to be looking…
Matt Chaney has blogged about it many times, we have posted about it, now it is beginning to find its way into the mainstream media; validity of the neurocognitive tests more specifically ImPACT. Dr. Chris Randolph of the Loyola University…
The United States Army and the Joint IED Defeat Organization funded a study looking into various military and football helmet pads and their attenuation of concussive forces. Posted on R&D Magazine online the results were summed up this way; Researchers at…
We all know today and tomorrow are fairly unproductive for die-hard sports fans (see me), therefore I will give you some quick links for today. I am off to go watch some hoop, feel free to comment or email messages…
We have seen that Omalu and others in the field have been saying one or two weeks may be not enough to “calm down” the effects of a concussion. What was pointed out by our friend Matt Chaney is that…
According to Matt Chaney, a pseudo-contributor to The Concussion Blog and an individual who’s thoughts I respect, the bills and mandates being voted upon are not enough; What is the National Football League up to? Who do NFL yaks think…
Rick Telander of the Chicago Sun Times has written some good articles on the issue of concussions and head trauma, as it relates to sports. In a recent article, post Super Bowl, he wrote about the undercurrent of head injuries…
Axon Sports is a recently launched company, formed to help address the growing need for athlete concussion testing in North America. They are a joint venture company backed by CogState that provides a cutting edge Computerized Cognitive Assessment Tool (Axon…
A occassional contributor to The Concussion Blog, Matt Chaney, a journalist, editor, teacher and publisher, also has a blog. However, Chaney has published a book titled Spiral of Denial; Muscle Doping in American Football, so he is not new to finding and presenting…
Matt Chaney is a journalist, editor, teacher and publisher, and he too has a blog that is just getting up and going. However, Chaney has published a book titled Spiral of Denial; Muscle Doping in American Football, so he is…
The quote in the title is a Japanese proverb, I have read it most recently in a very good book call “The Red Circle” by Brandon Webb; a biography of a Navy SEAL (you can learn a lot from these…
We have discussed how playing with a brain injury can be dangerous; more immediately dangerous for the younger athlete. However, continually disturbing the brain while it is recovering only prolongs the issue and is a detriment to long-term brain health. …
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