The committee formed by the NFL Player’s Association to tackle, so to speak, the issue of brain injuries and professional football has its first meeting this week in Palm Beach, Fla. http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hN5mqFoFXXSvkaDO9Nec2JaZ1GKQ The Mackey-White Traumatic Brain Injury Committee was named after two Hall of Fame players: John Mackey, who has..
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Among those testifying at Congressional hearings on the NFL and Concussion was Joseph Maroon, M.D., of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The hearings were held in Detroit on January 4, 2010. Maroon is also the Team Neurosurgeon, The Pittsburgh Steelers and has been on..
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I am always pleased when the news cycle shifts to concussion and brain injury because that raises public awareness that concussion means brain injury and that brain injuries can cause permanent brain damage. Thus, the NFL being grilled by Congress as to the safety of its players is a very..
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Dr. Randall Benson on Diffusion Tensor Imaging In my search for the holy grail of objective proof of brain damage in those with Post Concussion Syndrome, I try to stay as current as possible on neuroimaging advances. Yesterday I focused on Dr. Randall Benson’s testimony with respect to Susceptibility Weight..
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Randall Benson, M.D. on Neuroimaging Advances – SWI As I have stated here and elsewhere, diagnosing accidental concussions involves reconstructed evidence and the reliance on history from someone who likely has memory problems as to what happened, because they were concussed. In contrast to football or boxing concussions, real world..
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I began my treatment of the Congressional hearings on the long term brain damage of concussion in the NFL yesterday at my Brain Injury Lawyer Blog – http://www.waiting.com/blog/2010/01/nfl-concussion-hearings-in-congress.html I will continue that discussion on this blog for the next several blogs, as I tackled an even more important topic at..
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As angry as I get at the still stupid treatment of concussions, such as by Mike Leach at Texas Tech, I am so encouraged at the huge growth in public awareness of concussion. Almost every day there is a new story on concussion and some of those are really well..
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I have been talking on this blog the past week about the potential for brain injuries in the American Flight 311 crash in Jamaica. In continuing to follow the news of that crash, I found this story from CBS News about how planes are now safer than they once were...
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On previous blogs, I have talked about how the survivor of an on the ground air crash is exposed to significant concussional forces. The reason is that the extreme speed of a jet as it lands can create siginificant acceleration/deceleration forces. Unlike a modern car, it does not have a..
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From a Press Release from Air Jamaica Pilots Association: Organization says that lack of and/or unserviceable airport equipment combined with inclement weather could have seriously compromised the crew of American Airlines Flight 331, which crash landed in Jamaica last Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 MIAMI, FL, December 29, 2009 — A..
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