A UVA Health System emergency medicine physician helped develop new CDC treatment recommendations for children with concussions, also known as mild traumatic brain injury. Robert E. O’Connor, MD, ...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., July 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are teaming up ...

A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head—or hit to the body—that causes the brain to move rapidly back and forth in the skull. Concussions can have ...

ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwired - July 09, 2013) - According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), each year more than 170,000 young athletes go to their local emergency department for a ...

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An estimated 140,000 athletes ages 19 and under sustained concussions while participating in five major male sports and four major female sports during the 2012 school year.i In addition, experts ...

The Centers for Disease Control didn’t come out and say it, but when it published new guidelines for the diagnosis and management of concussion in children last week, the timing of the release seemed ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Sports injuries are taken very seriously, today maybe more than ever, with more and more young people partaking in athletic activities at ages younger than ever before. Some injuries ...

An influential doctors’ group wants Americans to take the risk of sports concussions more seriously and is recommending that organizers of sports programs for children, teens and adults take stronger ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. - A concussion can change the way a brain normally works and is a type of Traumatic Brain Injury, caused by a bump, blow or jolt to the head, according to the Centers for ...

NOCSAE is an independent and nonprofit standard-setting body with the sole mission of enhancing athletic safety through scientific research and the creation of performance standards for protective ...