If You Hit Your Head, Watch Out For These Symptoms... Even Days Later

Symptoms can also transform over time. For instance, the pain of headaches (the most common concussion symptom) may feel ...
BMJ

11.19 Concussions among Icelandic male athletes: self-reported prevalence with and without a definition of concussion

Objective Athletes´ concussion knowledge is not optimal which may contribute to underreporting. In our 2018 study of 508 female athletes (age = 26.9, SD = 7.1, 34.5% retired) (Kristjánsdóttir et al., ...
Medscape

Concussion History Tied to Long-Term Disability After Motor Vehicle Crashes

A previous concussion has been linked to an increased risk of a subsequent car crash ending in permanent disability, not necessarily because of injury severity, but because the brain appears to lack ...
BMJ

11.21 Evaluating the protective effect of mouthguard use for concussion in youth ice hockey

1 Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary,, Calgary, Canada 2 Integrated Concussion Research Program, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada 3 Alberta ...
Psychology Today

View Concussion as a “Brain Sprain”

Ask 10 random people what a concussion is, and you’d probably get 10 answers. Despite all the recent attention, the injury still is referred to as getting “your bell rung,” “knocked out” or “dinged up ...
Psychology Today

Does the Traditional Definition of Success Work?

As I entered the unknown land of brain injury, I noticed failure abounded. Here, a man tried to resume work when rehab said he'd met his goals and quickly had to quit. There, a woman struggled ...