Month: September 2017
Lindsey Straus
Brooke de Lench
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What's New, Top Stories, Effects of Concussion and Repetitive Head Impacts
September 26, 2017
- Lindsey Straus
Author: Lindsey Straus is an award-winning youth sports journalist, practicing attorney, and has been Senior Editor of SmartTeams since its launch as MomsTEAM in August 2000. She can be reached at lbartonstraus@MomsTEAM.com.
- Brooke de Lench
Author: Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute, Founder and Publisher, MomsTEAM.com, Producer of The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer. Follow Brooke on Twitter @brookedelench. Email her at delench@MomsTEAM.com.
CTE: Media Continues To Be Ahead Of Science
The prevailing media narrative is that concussions or repetitive subconcussive blows “cause” chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), that CTE “causes” former athletes to commit suicide, and such causal links are proven
Lindsey Straus
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What's New, Top Stories, Effects of Concussion and Repetitive Head Impacts
September 20, 2017
- Lindsey Straus
Author: Lindsey Straus is an award-winning youth sports journalist, practicing attorney, and has been Senior Editor of SmartTeams since its launch as MomsTEAM in August 2000. She can be reached at lbartonstraus@MomsTEAM.com.
No Increased Risk Of Dementia, Parkinson’s or ALS For Those Who Played High School Football Between 1946 and 1970, Mayo Clinic Finds
Are men who played high school football in Minnesota in the twenty-five years after World War II at increased risk of later developing dementia, Parkinson’s or ALS compared with non-football
Brooke de Lench
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What's New, Top Stories, Effects of Concussion and Repetitive Head Impacts, Blogs
September 11, 2017
- Brooke de Lench
Author: Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute, Founder and Publisher, MomsTEAM.com, Producer of The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer. Follow Brooke on Twitter @brookedelench. Email her at delench@MomsTEAM.com.
Creating A Culture Of Concussion Safety Requires Teamwork All Season Long, Not Just One Day
If your child plays a contact or collision sport, whether at the youth, middle school or high school level, chances are they will suffer a concussion at some point in
Brooke de Lench
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What's New, Effects of Concussion and Repetitive Head Impacts, Blogs
September 6, 2017
- Brooke de Lench
Author: Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute, Founder and Publisher, MomsTEAM.com, Producer of The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer. Follow Brooke on Twitter @brookedelench. Email her at delench@MomsTEAM.com.
CTE: Is the Media Scaring Athletes to Death?
As someone who has been educating sports parents about head trauma in sports for the past nineteen years, and about the very real risk to some athletes of chronic traumatic
Brooke de Lench
in
What's New, Blogs
September 6, 2017
- Brooke de Lench
Author: Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute, Founder and Publisher, MomsTEAM.com, Producer of The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer. Follow Brooke on Twitter @brookedelench. Email her at delench@MomsTEAM.com.
Is Letting A Child Play Contact or Collision Sports Child Abuse?
The last month has seen an all-out assault on the game of football, not coincidentally timed with the beginning of football preseason. First came a study reporting CTE in 110 of
