Yesterday’s harrowing Four Corners episode exposed the devastating impacts of degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and the link with contact sports, primarily Australian ...

As sport-related concussions continue to spark global concern, researchers at the University of South Australia (UniSA) are turning their attention to a largely overlooked group—non-professional ...

When playing sports, it's important to remember: Brains don't have seat belts. When rapid acceleration or deceleration of the brain inside the skull occurs with a blow to the head, a concussion ...

In the past two decades, concussions have become major public health concerns. They account for 5%-9% of all sports-related injuries, particularly in contact sports, activities involving thrown ...

Every soccer season, athletes like me are taught to watch for headaches, dizziness and blurred vision after a concussion. But no one has ever taught many of us that a concussion can also affect our ...

In sports like soccer, American football, or many martial arts, hard ball contacts and collisions are commonplace.

A research paper published in June found almost a third of parents surveyed said they stopped their children from playing contact sports out of fear of concussion.

Thirty years ago, Dr. John Leddy was treating athletes at the University of Buffalo when he became frustrated with the conventional wisdom around concussions. The prevailing view back then was that ...

The Derek Sheely Foundation debuts free football video game mod with simulated concussion symptoms during Brain Injury Awareness Month to help people recognize the dangers of staying on the field with ...

Proposed individualized concussion rehabilitation process, whereby return-to-play decisions are based on skill-based and physical interventions, and testing. As sport-related concussions continue to ...