By admin on March 12, 2012
BY TIM STEVENS – tim.stevens@newsobserver.com
Printed from the News & Observer – www.NewsObserver.com
A concussion is caused when the brain is jarred. The movement of the brain within the skull causes the brain’s chemistry to change. The symptoms of a concussion can include headaches, blurred vision, amnesia, changes in personality, light sensitivity and other problems. Recovery [...]
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By admin on January 31, 2012
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains the physiology of concussions, what is happening in the brain, the symptoms and recovery time associated with proper healing. Click here to view the video.
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By admin on January 28, 2012
Originally posted on CNN’s website by Nadia Kounang, CNN
Nathan Stiles died playing the game he loved, football.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been following the 2011 season of a North Carolina high school football team. In 2008, a player on the team died after sustaining a head injury during a game. For a closer look at the health [...]
Posted in Head Injuries
By admin on December 14, 2010
By ALAN SCHWARZ
Originally Published in The New York Times: December 11, 2010
The former N.F.L. player Cris Collinsworth, left, with Bob Costas, has become a critic of illegal tackling in the N.F.L.
As Jameel McClain was going through Heath Miller’s head, other things went through Cris Collinsworth’s.
Collinsworth gasped along with many of his 22 million “Sunday Night [...]
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By admin on August 10, 2010
By ALAN SCHWARZ
Originally Published: July 26, 2010
The National Football League is producing a poster that bluntly alerts its players to the long-term effects of concussions, using words like “depression” and “early onset of dementia” that those close to the issue described as both staggering and overdue.
The poster, soon to be hung in locker rooms leaguewide, [...]
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