Park City, Utah, has again become the scene of tragedy involving traumatic brain injury (TBI) and young athletes. As The New York Times pointed out Thursday, roughly two years ago champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce sustained TBI in an accident in Park City. And on Tuesday, Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke fell and hit..
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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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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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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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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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The National Football League is giving lip service to the notion that it is taking concussions seriously, but head injuries are still falling through the cracks. Take the case of San Diego’s Kris Dielman. On Oct. 23 Dielman was hurt when there was “about 12 minutes left in the game” against the..
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The National Football League’s next study of the long-term impact of concussions on players will be more expansive than its first effort, which was lambasted by Congress and independent physicians, according to The New York Times. In fact, one of the doctors leading the new research initiative joined the chorus of..
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New York City is liable for $19 million of a $36 million verdict awarded to a boy bicyclist who sustained brain damage when he was hit by a car, the New York Post reported Sunday. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/jury_hits_city_for_K4dhuTynjmBPy8cWP9omZP The city’s responsbility for $19 million would be the biggest legal award paid by the..
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