Concussion
Former Wales internationals have backed a new study into how repeated head impacts affect women’s rugby players. Cardiff University’s medical engineering team aims to create the first head impact assessment protocol designed specifically for female athletes. The study followed 30 players from the university’s women’s rugby team using specialised mouthguards, cognitive tests and MRI scans. [...]
US Army medics in Europe are trialling a handheld TBI tool that could help identify traumatic brain injuries in as little as 15 minutes. The US Army said the i-STAT Alinity device, made by Abbott Laboratories, is being tested to help medics make faster decisions in battlefield settings. Military officials said the tool could give [...]
Nobby Stiles’ son has warned of a brain injury “epidemic” among footballers who head the ball, especially women. John Stiles spoke after an inquest on Wednesday into the death of his father, the England 1966 World Cup winner and former Manchester United midfielder, heard that thousands of headers had caused his chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or [...]
Tinnitus is common among former NFL players, particularly those with a history of concussion symptoms, new research suggests. The condition was also associated with worse mental health among affected former players. The study was led by Niki Konstantinides, a researcher in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of [...]
Heading a football just once may temporarily release brain injury markers into the blood, a study of amateur male players suggests. The research found greater changes in certain blood markers associated with neural damage the harder and more often players headed the ball. For two of the six proteins tracked, levels rose higher the more [...]
Claude Lemieux’s brain is being donated to Boston University’s CTE research centre, his family said in a statement. The former ice hockey player died by suicide at the age of 60 on Thursday, according to authorities, after serving as the Montreal Canadiens’ torchbearer before a playoff game earlier that week. He played nearly 1,500 NHL [...]
Moderate screen time after concussion was linked to greater improvement in psychological symptoms in adolescents than either low or high use, a study suggests. The research followed adolescents aged 12 to 17.9 years who had sustained a concussion, a mild brain injury usually caused by a blow to the head, and were assessed within 10 [...]
A free concussion mod for an American football video game simulates symptoms on screen to highlight the dangers of staying on the field injured. The mod, called MODDEN 26, was released during Brain Injury Awareness Month by the Derek Sheely Foundation. It depicts common concussion symptoms including blurred vision, dizziness, headaches, nausea, light sensitivity and [...]
Youth American football accounts for nearly one in five traumatic brain injuries linked to sport in children and young adults in the US, a preliminary study has found. Researchers analysed more than 70,000 traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), injuries to the brain caused by a blow or jolt to the head, in people aged 25 or [...]
Eye movement tests may detect brain changes in military veterans more than a decade after concussion, according to new research. The study evaluated 78 military veterans, including 38 with a history of mild traumatic brain injury, often called TBI, a brain injury caused by a blow or jolt to the head, and 40 without. Participants [...]
