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Concussion
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Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
New Study Finds Increase in Number of Concussions in High School Athletes
A new study out of the Ohio State University and published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine found "concussion rates in the US High‑School athletes more than doubled between…
Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
Do Men Recover from Concussion as Quickly as Women?
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, utilizing diffusion tensor imaging, studied whether one's gender could affect the recovery time from concussion. Dr. Saeed Fakhran, an assistant profession of neuro radiology…
SDNY Blog
Concussion Class Action Filed Against NHL
In a complaint filed Wednesday, a group of former NHL hockey players filed a class action alleging that the NHL failed to warn, and concealed, the risk of concussions and…
Personal Injury Law Journal
Misleading Safety Claims Regarding Football Helmets Prompts Lawsuit
Stark & Stark attorneys have filed a putative class action lawsuit against helmet maker Riddell, alleging that advertising claiming its products help reduce concussions was false or misleading. The lawsuit,…
Pennsylvania Law Monitor
Concussions During Football Season
Soon school will be over and football season will be starting. Kids will be asking their parents to play on a local football team. While the initial reaction is to…
Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
Does Concussion Education Help Make Student Athletes Safer?
The good news is that most if not all states have passed a version of Washington State’s Zackery Lystedt law which is helping to educate high school athletic coaches, trainers,…
Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
DTI Used to Examine the Brain’s White Matter Microstructure in Ice Hockey Players
As part of the hockey concussion education project, researchers used MRI diffusion tensor imaging to examine the brain's white matter microstructure in ice hockey players with a history of clinically…
Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
Advanced MRI Used to Study Effects of Concussion
The hockey concussion education project under the leadership of Dr. Paul Echlin and in collaboration with a team from Harvard Medical School/Bingham and the women's hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital/Athinoula A. Martinos…
Health Care and Life Sciences
Teen Concussions Raise Risk for Depression
By Ken Shigley
As an attorney handling brain injury cases throughout Georgia, I have often seen children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Sometimes it is clear that the injury is catastrophic…
Litigation & Trial
Why The NFL Concussion Settlement Wasn’t Approved – And Why It Might Never Be
UPDATE, July 22, 2014. I wrote the below post a little over six months ago. As predicted, the BAP Fund problem was easily solved by removing the cap entirely. Also…