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High School Football's
Hidden Danger
The story of Kort Breckenridge.
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Keeping Quiet Can Keep You
Out of the Game
The story of a varsity basketball player: Tracy's story.
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Concussion Researchers
Study Impact on Teens
The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
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Concussions and Athletes
Outside the Lines: Teen Concussions
ESPN Sports
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Second Impact Syndrome
The dangers of not recognizing the first head injury.
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A Blow To The Brain
60 Minutes Interviews coaches, players of the past, and players that never could.
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NFL Acknowledges Head Injuries
The House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing about the impact of Pro Football conucssions.
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Think Brain Injury.com's
Public Service Announcement for
Youth Athletes.
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Network formed for the prevention of young athletes' sports concussions |
Two Scottsdale AZ men have formed a non-profit organization with the goal of increasing awareness of and preventing life-altering, concussion-related injuries to young athletes from age 11.
Arizona Sports Concussion Network (ASCN), an alliance of physicians, psychologists, athletic trainers, high school administrators, youth sports organization leaders and parents is the state's only independent organization of its type and one of very few nationally.
Network founders and co-CEOs Mickey Cummings and David Carfagno, D.O., C.A.Q.S.M., who also serves as its medical director, have assembled this unique coalition to warn of the consequences associated with the all-too-frequent and largely preventable occurrences of Post Concussion Syndrome (PCS), Second Impact Syndrome (SIS) and other permanent brain injuries among school-age athletes within all sports, including cheer leaders.
The two Scottsdale men were brought to the quest from different backgrounds; Cummings as a former athlete and concerned parent of a NCAA college football player, and Carfagno as a physician who has treated many young amateur and professional athletes suffering from concussions, some whose lives were changed by their injuries.
The network's founders point out that these younger athletes are especially at risk because their brains are still developing, and a repeated concussion could sideline their life. ASCN's vital mission is to combat this often destructive and potentially devastating – yet relatively unrecognized – problem. To accomplish this, it provides educational services, training, physician referrals and related services.
To proactively protect Arizona's young athletes, ASCN has arranged for the support of the Arizona Sports Concussion Center (ASCC) www.AZSportsConcussion.com and the services of its certified physicians. The Center's Concussion Management Program, features the Impact™ computerized neuropsychological baseline (pre-injury) test. Impact™ testing is the nationally recognized standard for sports-related pre- and post-injury testing. |
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Sideline Views
Listening to Wisdom From a 10-Year-Old Son About His Head Injury
By Adam Buckley Cohen |
"Dad, I'm scared. I only have one brain, and I don't want to hurt it playing football."
My son Will, his 10-year-old eyes filling with tears, was trying to decide whether to play quarterback in his peewee game against Roosevelt Elementary. Ten days earlier, he'd taken a helmet-to-helmet hit during practice and possibly, although we really don't know, sustained a concussion. Now I wanted to help him make the right choice — if only I knew what that was.
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Football and the brain need a divorce
From the Toronto Star
Evidence is mounting that the game's violence is shortening players' lives. Can it change? |
Enjoy the Grey Cup, sports fans; you may get more memories out of it than some of the players.
The Canadian Football League, whose existence has seemed precarious at times, has enjoyed a few years of total stability. There will be Argonauts football next year and for years to come, though given their play of late that seems as much a threat as a promise.
But change may be coming to the pro gridiron. As you watch the offensive and defensive lines hammer their helmets into each other, play after play, in the clash of wills that so often determines the game's outcome, it's worth considering that worry about concussions is prompting some doctors to try and make the game less dangerous.
Can it be done without removing the fury at the heart of football?
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Merril Hoge: Concussion Nearly Killed Me In Locker Room
By Will Brinson |
Merril Hoge, now an ESPN analyst, retired from the NFL in 1994 after suffering two concussions in five weeks. During ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown this week, the analyst recalled the immediate effects of his concussion, and they are terrifying.
Hoge essentially stated that he died -- literally -- in the Bears' locker room, forcing doctors to resuscitate him, and that he was barely cognizant in the weeks following his injury.
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Culture of hiding concussions may be changing
By Rachel Cohen (AP) |
Kurt Warner headed to a meeting with Arizona Cardinals medical staff and coaches before Sunday's game wrestling with the question of whether to be honest about the post-concussion symptoms he was experiencing.
"Do I want to stretch the truth a little bit? Do I want to not tell them everything so I could play?" he wondered.
"I know I could dictate it," he said Monday. "But then I had to go, 'What are you thinking?' Because I know this is bigger than that."
The issue of concussions is front and center in the NFL, illustrated starkly Sunday when the two quarterbacks from last season's Super Bowl sat out — after saying during the week they planned to play despite sustaining head injuries the previous game.
Warner didn't play against the Tennessee Titans, and the Cardinals lost. Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger didn't play against the Baltimore Ravens, and the Steelers lost.
Their absences came against the backdrop of increased attention to the issue, from studies highlighting the dangers of repeated head injuries to several statements issued by the NFL on how teams should handle concussions.
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La Salle to pay $7.5 million to brain-injured football player
By Frank Fitzpatrick and Sam Wood
Inquirer Staff Writers |
The worsening impact of head injuries on football was underscored yesterday when it was revealed that La Salle University had agreed to pay $7.5 million to a severely brain-damaged player, an amount five times the school's annual athletic budget.
Preston Plevretes, a sophomore linebacker, was severely injured in a Nov. 5, 2005, game against Duquesne, six weeks after suffering a concussion during an Explorers practice. His lawyers argued that because La Salle prematurely cleared him to return, without having him undergo proper testing or be seen by a doctor, the player became a victim of second-impact syndrome.
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| Our mission: |
The Center's mission is to substantially reduce occurrences of Post-Concussion Syndrome (PCS) and Second Impact Syndrome (SIS), a condition that most often occurs in athletes under 21 years of age. Such injuries, which are all too common, can result in brain swelling, permanent brain damage and, even, death.
ASCC is an independent testing organization trained in the use of the computerized neuropsychological Impact™ Test for both baseline (pre-injury) and post-injury testing.
For information on becoming a member of The Center, a donor in support of our vital mission, or a sponsoring company that wants to put your product or service in front of up to 176,000 young Arizona athletes, click here or call 480-710-5508. |
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