Cerebrum Health News : An Athlete's Concussion
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Cerebrum Health News: An Athlete's Concussion
There has been a lot of effort and money put into alleviating an athlete’s concussion. A lot of science’s best minds are working toward preventing, treating, and understanding concussions in a whole new way. Progress is certainly being made, but how much? This week at Cerebrum we’ve scanned the web and found some great reads in regards to an athlete’s concussion. Read on to learn more!
We Need to Talk About Concussions, Right now Near the end of the rst period, I was carrying the puck through the neutral zone when I saw “Jumbo” Joe Thornton coming to clog up the middle of the ice. I curled to the boards to avoid his stick-check, and the puck ipped up on edge. I looked down for a split second to gather it. When I picked my head back up, everything went black.
Cerebrum Health News: An Athlete's Concussion
Cerebrum Health News: An Athlete's Concussion
I just remember hearing the crowd roaring as I slowly got back to my feet. I’d lost my stick in the collision and I couldn’t nd it, so I just skated back to the bench as quickly as I could. I didn’t want to give the crowd anything extra to feed on. When I reached the bench, I knew I had got caught pretty good. There was blood pouring from my nose, and I could feel that I had tweaked my knee, too. When I limped back to the dressing room, my primary concern was actually my knee, not my head. Subconsciously, you know after taking that hard of a hit that something must be wrong with your head. There’s just no way your brain comes away from that kind of collision unscathed. But in the moment, my head felt ne. I didn’t have any immediate concussion symptoms. The trainers cleaned up my broken nose, put a brace on my knee and I went back out and finished the game. People reading this who have never played hockey before might be wondering what I was thinking. To be completely honest, as hard as this still is for me to admit, I was telling myself, “They just gave you the C. Get back out there for your teammates.”
Cerebrum Health News: An Athlete's Concussion
Cerebrum Health News: An Athlete's Concussion NFL-Backed Youth Program Says It Reduced Concussions. The Date Disagrees
No initiative has received more backing and attention than Heads Up Football, a series of in-person and online courses for coaches to learn better safety procedures and proper tackling drills. The N.F.L. funds and heavily promotes the program. The league and U.S.A. Football, youth football’s governing body, which oversees the program, have sold Heads Up Football to thousands of leagues and parents as having been proved effective — telling them that an independent study showed the program reducing injuries by 76 percent and concussions by about 30 percent. That study, published in July 2015, showed no such thing, a review by The New York Times has found. The research and interviews with people involved with it indicate, rather, that Heads Up Football showed no demonstrable effect on concussions during the study, and signi cantly less effect on injuries over all, than U.S.A. Football and the league have claimed in settings ranging from online materials to congressional testimony. As the 2016 youth football season dawns, the revelation will most likely fuel skeptics of football’s claims of reform, and discourage parents who want solid information about the sport’s risks for their children.
Cerebrum Health News: An Athlete's Concussion
Cerebrum Health News: An Athlete's Concussion v i a N.F.L.-Backed Youth Program Says It Reduced Concussions. The Data Disagrees.
NFL teams now face nes, loss of draft picks if they violate concussion protocol The NFL and NFL Players Association on jointly announced new guidelines designed to probe and punish teams that violate the league’s game-day concussion protocol. Under the new policy, when a team’s medical staff or other employee is determined to violate the concussion protocol, the team could be subject to discipline — either nes of anywhere from $50,000 to $150,000 for a rst violation, or loss of draft picks. Fines for violators will ramp up to a minimum of $100,000 for a second and each additional violation of the concussion protocol. vi a NFL teams now face nes, loss of draft picks if they violate concussion protocol
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Cerebrum Health News: An Athlete's Concussion