Background The use of video to assist professional sporting bodies with the diagnosis of sport-related concussion (SRC) has been well established; however, there has been little consistency across ...

Objective Athletes´ concussion knowledge is not optimal which may contribute to underreporting. In our 2018 study of 508 female athletes (age = 26.9, SD = 7.1, 34.5% retired) (Kristjánsdóttir et al., ...

We conducted a cross-sectional study of patients seen in 2 sport concussion clinics, the Sports Concussion Clinic at Children's Hospital Boston and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports ...

While many people can recognize a concussion when they see it, it can actually be a challenge to define exactly. That’s partially because a concussion is another name for a “mild” traumatic brain ...

Although concussions were first described in ancient times by Hippocrates, the definition of concussion and what differentiates it from other head trauma has been debated throughout history. Since the ...

Athletes do not have the same understanding of a concussion and its effects as the formally accepted medical definition of the condition, study results showed. “This study indicates that researchers ...

The NFL has specific guidelines for handling players who may have been concussed, but you might not have known it by watching the league's season opener between the Broncos and Panthers. The league's ...

Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa returns tonight only 24 days after a concussion. Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett is returning only seven days after a concussion. That disparity has caused some ...

While concussion awareness has improved over the past decade, understanding the nuances of these sports injuries, their severity, symptoms, and treatment, is still a work in progress. Neurologists and ...

As I entered the unknown land of brain injury, I noticed failure abounded. Here, a man tried to resume work when rehab said he'd met his goals and quickly had to quit. There, a woman struggled ...

The NFL has specific guidelines for handling players who may have been concussed, but you might not have known it by watching the league's season opener between the Broncos and Panthers. The league's ...