A couple of weeks ago, eight-year-old Liam Ramsay-Leavitt of Martinez, Calif., was swinging on the monkey bars at school. "And then I just fell on my side," he says. "I was kind of dizzy and I had an ...

Cognitive problems and other patient-reported symptoms after head injury do not distinguish concussion from neck injury, researchers from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo have found.

Most of us have bumped our heads at some point. But sometimes, that hit is more than just a bump. It could be a concussion, which is a type of brain injury that can have lasting effects if not ...

Football season is underway. NFL teams are already playing pre-season games, and college and high school programs are training in preparation for their first scrimmages. While squads on all levels may ...

Objectives To explore the epidemiology, incidence and distribution of sports-related concussion (SRC) among middle- and high-school students from Japan sustained during extracurricular sports.Methods ...

NaNoWriMo—National Novel Writing Month—is a month of writing every single day in November to create a 50,000-word novel. This writing community and event includes anyone, no matter your ability; it ...

While fall sports are associated with many great things, one of the unpleasant byproducts is the number of concussions sustained by athletes. Each year more than 300,000 concussions are reported, but ...