On Veterans Day Thursday, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shineski offered another olive branch to veterans of recent wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maybe the military is actually sincere in its efforts to reach out to our troubled returning warriors, including those with unseen wounds like post-traumatic stress disorder. The veterans department put..
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Fred Mueller has a tough job for a compassionate man: He runs the National Center for Catastrophic Injury Research at the University of North Carolina. In that role, Mueller collects information on sports injuries and accidents. Most recently, he was on the case of a high school linebacker in Kansas City who collapsed and..
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Head injuries in junior hockey are widely underreported, in good part because there is pressure to return players to the rink as soon as possible. That’s the gist of New York Times story Tuesday on the results of a study that were announced Monday in Toronto. As the base of that research, the..
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It’s an issue that’s been discussed and debated: How much more stringent should the guidelines be regarding footbal-playing youths who sustain concussions? In yet another tragedy that seems to point to tougher rules, last Friday running back Nathan Stiles of Spring Hills High School in the surburbs of Kansas City died hours after collapsing on the..
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Ariana McGuire is doing pretty well for someone who was shot in the face with an arrow. The Star-Ledger of Newark on Friday did a Page One profile of Ariana, an 8-year-old girl who was accidentally hit by an arrow by a boy who was practicing archery in a backyard. The arrow..
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A jury awarded a diabetic man, who suffered severe brain damage after being denied his insulin while incarcerated, Tuesday won a $17.5 million judgment against New York City, the New York Daily News reported. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/10/20/2010-10-20_175m_for_diabetic_denied_insulin_in_jail.html Jose Vargas, 43, was so disabled that he was baredly aware that the jury found in..
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Rutgers University football player Eric LeGrand has been paralyzed from the neck down ever since he crashed into an Army player in a game Saturday. The question now is will the defensive tackle remain immobile. http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2010/10/paralyzed_rutgers_player_eric.html A Page One story in The Star-Ledger Tuesday vividly described the incident that lead to the young player’s spine injury,..
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The topic of safety and the sport of ice hockey is on the agenda Tuesday at a medical conference at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/sports/hockey/18hockey.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper The confab will include representatives spanning the National Hockey League to youth leagues, and they will talk about recommendations..
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Our national newspaper, USA Today, wrote a story last week about the U.S. Army “discovering” a simple blood test that can diagnose mild traumatic brain injury. The test is described as a huge breakthrough, a potential “milestone in brain-injury care.” http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/medical/2010-10-15-1Abrain15_ST_N.htm?csp=netvibes As someone who has spent their career as an advocate..
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A concussion is keeping another pro football player off the field this weekend. After getting sacked nine times in last week’s game against the New York Giants, Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler won’t be playing in his team’s game against the Panthers Sunday. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/sports/eagles/20101008_Bears__Cutler_out_due_to_concussion.html The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Cutler was checked..
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