Anyone who has seen athletes in the middle of a game know that most will downplay an injury if they believe they can still, regardless of the consequences. We’ve all seen an athlete sprain an ankle, get knocked down and struggle to get up and keep playing even when common sense says that it’s better(…)
We’ve discussed concussions on this site many times before (just put concussion in the search bar). The actual mechanism of concussion and how it adversely affects the brain is still relatively unknown. Marchi et al, 2013 tested the integrity of the blood brain barrier in American football players’ pre and post-game to determine what, if(…)
As we’ve discussed several times, concussion can be a serious injury. Numerous young people are forced to cut their careers short due to the sequale of this injury. A major hypothesis in rehabilitation has been earlier intervention will decrease long-term disability. Matuseviciene, et al 2013 set out to determine if an extra visit with an(…)
McIntosh and McCory 2005 performed a literature review of head and neck injuries in the sports medicine literature. They surveyed rugby, ice hockey, American football, baseball, soccer, boxing, cricket, horse racing, skiing and snowboarding. One of the major factors that can help prevent head injury was found to be the hardness of a surface. They(…)
The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine released their position paper on concussion in 2010. You can find it here. They report that the rate of concussion in sport play is 0.14-3.66 per 1000 in high school and 0.5-3.0 in college sports. The position paper goes on to review on-field analysis, side line analysis and(…)
Brooks et al, 2010 completed a 5 year survey of skiers and snowboarders and the injuries they sustained. In that time period, over 6 million skier days were recorded. A total of 16945 injuries were recorded for a rate of 2.68 per 1000. Of them, 308 were cross country skiing and 1856 people did not(…)
Cameron Marshall recently completed a review of sports concussion. The author begins with a review of the current state of affairs; that 90% of concussions do not result in a loss of consciousness, that they account of 8.2% of all high school sports injuries, that 50% of concussions are from football players, that 12.6% of(…)
We’ve discussed concussion and head trauma more than once on this site (here, here and here for example). Gavet et al 2011 discuss the little understood nature of CTE, or the accumulation of concussive and sub-concussive forces upon a brain. After a discussion of the gross and micro anatomical changes observed in ex-athletes who had(…)