We recently wrote about a number of concussion lawsuits that were filed in the past two months or so by ex-players against the National Football League. Well, last Friday The New York Times did a big Page One round-up story on all the litigation of this kind pending against the NFL. Apparently,..
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The National Football League has a real situation on its hands: Last week a batch of lawsuits were filed against it by retired players who allege they sustained long-term brain damage from concussions during their careers on the gridiron. Last week was also the week when the NFL mandated that there will be..
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Add former Green Bay Packer Lew Carpenter to the growing list of pro football players who had degenerative brain disease. And his case adds a disturbing new twist to ongoing medical research. Earlier this month the Associated Press reported that Carpenter, who never sustained any known concussions during his NFL career..
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Last month we blogged about the return to the ice of Penguins hockey star Sidney Crosby, who was benched for almost 10 months after sustaining a concussion in January. The New York Times wrote that Crosby’s comeback would be one of the most-watched concussion cases ever, as we pointed out..
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Football and ice hockey aren’t the only sports that are causing long-term brain damage in athletes. Soccer is, too. That was the finding of a study done Dr. Michael Lipton of New York City’s Montefiore Medical Center, a researcher who presented the results of his work to the Radiological Society of North..
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Veterans who are now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after tours in Iraq and Afghanistan are not getting prompt help or treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to testimony at a Senate committee hearing last week. http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2011-11-30/veterans-PTSD-health-care/51515992/1 USA Today covered the proceedings before the Senate Veteran’s Affairs committee,..
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Are Pittsburgh Steelers’ officials deluding themselves, or are they just plain stupid and reckless, in their cavalier attitude about the two recent head injuries that player Troy Polamalu sustained? Sports writer Mike Bires of the Beaver County Times did a nice job of outlining the disturbing way that the Steelers organization is treating Polamalu...
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Hockey star Keith Primeau drives a hard bargain. When former National Hockey League linesman Pat Dapuzzo wanted Primeau to appear at a charity event, Primeau said he would do it on one condition, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/sports/hockey/for-ex-nhl-linesman-dapuzzo-recovery-doesnt-stop-when-injuries-heal.html?_r=1&ref=hockey Primeau wanted Dapuzzo to do what he had done: agree to donate his brain..
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In what The New York Times called “the most closely chronicled concussion in hockey history,” Pittsburgh Penguin Sidney Crosby came back to the ice this week, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/sports/hockey/sidney-crosby-ready-for-return-to-ice.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=sidney%20crosby&st=cse Crosby was benched for roughly 10 1/2 months, recovering from concussions that he suffered Jan. 1 and Jan. 5 this year. As The Times pointed out,..
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There was a big step taken recently that will go a long way toward guaranteeing that brain injury patients get doctors who are thoroughly schooled in that field of medicine. The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), which oversees the certification of physician specialists in the United States, has created a new subspecialty..
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