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Bryan Burwell: Criticism of Kurt Warner is unwarranted

Last updated Friday, May 11, 2012 - 3:23pm

ST. LOUIS -- Before we allow this very important debate about the importance of player safety in pro football to disintegrate into a silly exercise of infantile name-calling (oops, too late for that), I was actually hoping that some genuine good could come out of the darkness.

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Study: High-school athletes return from concussions too soon

Jack Kelly Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last updated Monday, March 5, 2012 - 3:42pm

Of 14,635 high-school sports injuries reported during the 2008-10 school years, 1,936 (13.2 percent) were concussions, according to an epidemiological study published in January in the American Journal of Sports Medicine. This was nearly twice the rate reported in earlier studies of high-school athletes.

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Concussion bill for non-school sports in Wyoming

Bob Moen The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 20, 2012 - 9:01pm

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- A Senate committee has endorsed proposed legislation that would require coaches and trainers of organized non-school youth sports and activities to get training about concussions and how to handle head injuries.

Senate File 50 advances to the Senate floor after winning the 5-0 vote from the Senate Labor, Health and Social Services Committee on Monday.

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Each year U.S. emergency rooms treat more than 170,000 sports-related traumatic brain injuries, including concussions, in children and teens.

Concussion insurance aimed at high school athletes

Grace Rubenstein The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 3:25pm

As awareness grows of the grave dangers of concussions, coaches and parents across the nation are searching for ways to better manage these brain injuries in young athletes.

Financial giant Wells Fargo is pioneering a program in Sacramento, Calif., that creates a new insurance package that provides concussion testing and medical care for high school athletes. It's a level of diagnosis and treatment historically available only to the pros.

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Winnipeg Jets' Tanner Glass, left, heads off the ice after getting hit by a stick from Boston Bruins' Joe Corvo, not shown, in the first period of an NHL hockey game in Boston, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. The Bruins won 5-3. Glass did not return to the game.

League-wide secrecy complicates NHL's attempt to combat head injuries

Mike Berardino Sun Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 6:42pm

SUNRISE, Fla. -- Sidney Crosby, the world's most talented hockey player, made big news over the weekend during his trip to South Florida.

He did this not by scoring a hat trick for the Pittsburgh Penguins or even playing in Friday night's game, but merely by skating in circles for 27 minutes during a non-contact workout earlier that same day.

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MLS discusses best protocol for concussions

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, January 7, 2012 - 6:44pm

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Major League Soccer is looking to take the lead with the best protocol for handling concussions.

Team doctors, athletic trainers and trainers from outside the sport attended the MLS Medical Symposium on Saturday.

While football and soccer has its share of concussions, men's soccer ranks fifth in terms of game-related concussions, according to Dr. Ruben J. Echemendia, a clinical neuropsychologist for the MLS who led the symposium.

How concussions are sustained differs in each sport, but identifying and treating concussions should be the same across various sports, he said.

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Collier: Sports cliches that achieved grateness

Gene Collier Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last updated Saturday, December 31, 2011 - 2:17pm

Welcome again to the annual literary exercise in which we try to figure out exactly what our sports figures and broadcasters and writers are saying, particularly when they are merely trafficking in sports cliches. Our Body of Work on this matter stretches back to 1984, when, in a full column-deadline panic, we strung together every sports clichE in the book and passed it off as legitimate social commentary, a spasm that became a tradition. Here is the 28th annual Trite Trophy dishonoring the worst sports cliche of the year.

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With NFL career shortened by concussions, Utecht charts a new course in music

Chip Scoggins Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

Last updated Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 6:19pm

MINNEAPOLIS -- Ben Utecht played college football in his hometown for the Minnesota Gophers, caught touchdown passes from Peyton Manning in the NFL and won a Super Bowl championship. He understands what it's like to perform on a big stage.

Now he's getting a taste of it in a more literal sense.

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Has America grown numb to concussions in sports?

Bill Dwyre Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 9:10pm

LOS ANGELES -- The horror stories in pro sports are coming so fast and furious that their significance is being lost in their numbers. It should be the other way around, but it's not.

Another concussion. Ho hum.

Player A will sit out two games, Player B a month. Page 5.

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Study: Leather helmets may protect as well as modern ones

Jeannine Stein Los Angeles Times

Last updated Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 9:04am

Newer isn't necessarily always better, even when it comes to football helmets. A study published online Friday in the Journal of Neurosurgery finds those vintage "leatherhead" helmets may protect as well as or better than modern ones when it comes to some typical helmet-on-helmet collisions that can lead to concussions.

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Kyra Yu slaps a puck toward the net during an open skate for hockey players at The Ice Sheet in Ogden.

Post-Concussion testing a new tool in the doctor's bag

Katie M. Ellis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 4:04pm

Concussions are common in impact sports -- and they are particularly serious when athletes return to play before they have fully recovered from the blow.

But some local health-care providers are excited to have ImPACT, or Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing, to help prevent further injury after a concussion.

"The test is nothing but a tool, but it is an important tool," said Tres Ferrin, outreach coordinator at McKay-Dee Sports Medicine in Ogden. "We don't want to send (players) back too soon to get a worse injury or a fatal injury.

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Youth boxing taking a pounding from doctors

Amina Khan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 9:30am

LOS ANGELES -- Youth boxing is getting pummeled by pediatricians in a new policy statement opposing such pugilism as too dangerous of an athletic activity for children.

The position statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Paediatric Society argues that the high risk of concussion could damage young brains while they're still developing.

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