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Lessons to Learn: Fighting for Football
“Like there haven’t been concussions in the last 100 years of sports. Toughen up. Quit looking for an excuse to sit on the sidelines.” [Comment on USA Today’s “Concussions now a hot issue as leagues...
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Pronger out for season with concussion, but Crosby still considered the ‘pussy’
Former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell was once quoted in describing what he termed to be the “wussification of America.” If we look at this “wussification” in the spectrum of hockey’s concussion...
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UPMC and Recovery Predictor?
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and its concussion program have released what they think is a new model to predict how long each individual may take to recover. Lead researcher on this...
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Limiting Head Trauma is Logical
The research is starting to come in; the problem is that results and conclusions bring more questions that should be answered. Naturally some will look at early evidence and make a 180 degree change...
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UPMC Blazes Trail… Comes up with curious results
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh did something that has not been done up to this point; an intensive study on youth football. Using geography as its...
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Delaware Youth Concussion Summit – Wrap Up
A regular reader and a very good friend to The Concussion Blog was fortunate enough to attend the Delaware Youth Concussion Summit the past week. I had asked her to write-up a report and she kindly...
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