The crisis of long-term brain damage in Australian contact sports may be deepening, and authorities must do more.
Football season is upon us. Unfortunately, sports — especially tackle football — are one of the most common causes of head injuries among children and adolescents. Head injury is an umbrella term that ...
The World Cup has the globe glued to TV screens, watching 22 soccer players work their magic on the field. Every so often, ...
The McCallum football team has chosen safety over style. That was the case when the Knights were introduced to a layer of soft padding outside their helmets in the spring. Not exactly a fashion ...
Angus Pitman finds a new sporting passion after walking away from country footy due to coping eight concussions on the field.
Concrete-based cricket pitches, like that on which Nathan Fitzgerald received fatal blows to the head, are ‘totally unsafe’, ...
In choosing to go public with his ALS diagnosis, former NFL running back Chris Johnson chose not to focus on the link between ...
A concussion in football is a type of brain injury caused by a sudden impact or jolt to the head that disrupts normal brain function. The CDC defines a concussion as a type of traumatic brain injury ...
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A sporting league in regional Victoria is the first to adopt a concussion app aimed at improving communication and ...
About a half-dozen varsity players sustained concussions during the 2024 season, he said. Only one McCallum player has suffered a concussion this season, Gammerdinger said. NFL and NCAA football teams ...