7 Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention (ACRISP), Federation University, Ballarat, Australia Concussion is the number one injury risk in contact and collision sports.

Objective Athletes´ concussion knowledge is not optimal which may contribute to underreporting. In our 2018 study of 508 female athletes (age = 26.9, SD = 7.1, 34.5% retired) (Kristjánsdóttir et al., ...

Athletes do not have the same understanding of a concussion and its effects as the formally accepted medical definition of the condition, study results showed. “This study indicates that researchers ...

We conducted a cross-sectional study of patients seen in 2 sport concussion clinics, the Sports Concussion Clinic at Children's Hospital Boston and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports ...

Ask 10 random people what a concussion is, and you’d probably get 10 answers. Despite all the recent attention, the injury still is referred to as getting “your bell rung,” “knocked out” or “dinged up ...

Coaches should use a stricter standard for evaluating a concussion and should give athletes a longer rest period, two new studies suggest. Research on American college football players shows the risk ...

Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa returns tonight only 24 days after a concussion. Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett is returning only seven days after a concussion. That disparity has caused some ...

As I entered the unknown land of brain injury, I noticed failure abounded. Here, a man tried to resume work when rehab said he'd met his goals and quickly had to quit. There, a woman struggled ...

The NFL and NFLPA have enacted a new addition to the league's concussion protocol following nearly universal criticism of the procedure in Weeks 3 and 4 of the season. Dolphins quarterback Tua ...

Representatives from 23 institutions met earlier this month for the first time to discuss a collaboration to study sports-related concussions in the Ivy League and the Big Ten. The meeting, held July ...