What’s New
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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
Brooke de Lench
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What's New, Top Stories, Effects of Concussion and Repetitive Head Impacts, Blogs
August 14, 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.
Letting Kids Play Football is Not Child Abuse
The last three weeks have witnessed an all-out assault on the game of football, not coincidentally timed with the beginning of NFL training camps. First came a study reporting CTE
Lindsey Straus
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What's New, Identification & Diagnosis
April 27, 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.
All Concussions Are Different But Share Four Common Features
The 5th International Consensus Statement On Concussion In Sport issued in April 2017 (1)(“Berlin Consensus Statement”) while it modifies slightly the definition of sport-related concussion, continues to note that it provides
Lindsey Straus
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What's New, Press Releases
March 24, 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.
SmartTeams’ de Lench and MacDonald Present Six Pillars Concussion Program at IOC World Conference
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Concord, Massachusetts. March 23, 2017 On March 16, 2017, Brooke de Lench, Executive Director of MomsTeam Institute, Inc., and Jim MacDonald, M.D., M.P.H., a member of the
Lindsey Straus
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What's New, Prevention & Risk Reduction, Treatment & Management
March 8, 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.
NATA Issues New Sports Health and Safety Best Practice Guidelines
The National Athletic Trainers’ Association and Youth Sports Safety Alliance have issued best practice youth sports health safety guidelines. Touted as the first of their kind, the guidelines, however, largely
Lindsey Straus
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What's New, Top Stories, Treatment & Management, Effects of Concussion and Repetitive Head Impacts
February 1, 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.
Vision Assessment Should Be Part Of Return-To-Learn Protocol, UAB Researchers Say
A comprehensive vision assessment should be part of return-to-learn protocols to help determine when children are ready to return to the classroom following concussions — particularly in children reporting academic
Lindsey Straus
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What's New, Top Stories, Identification & Diagnosis
November 21, 2016
- 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.
Girls More Likely to Report Concussions, But Belief That Injury Not Serious Still Driving Underreporting, Regardless of Gender
Girls are more likely to report concussions when they occur, to realize, after watching a 30-minute Powerpoint presentation about concussion, that they had sustained more concussions than previously thought, and
Lindsey Straus
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What's New, Prevention & Risk Reduction
November 21, 2016
- 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.
Inadequate Helmet Fit Increases Concussion Severity In High School Football Players
High school football players who sustain concussions while wearing improperly fitted helmets are at higher risk of experiencing more symptoms and taking longer to recover than those who are concussed
Lindsey Straus
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What's New, Top Stories, Treatment & Management
November 7, 2016
- 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.
Few States Regulate Return To Learn After Concussion, Study Finds
All fifty states have passed laws since 2009 intended, in part, to assure a safe return to sports after concussion (“return-to-play” or RTP), but just eight regulate the process of reintegrating concussed
Lindsey Straus
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What's New, Top Stories, Identification & Diagnosis, Treatment & Management
October 21, 2016
- 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.
Four in Ten Youth and High School Athletes Continue Playing With Concussion Signs and Symptoms
Nearly four out of ten youth and high school athletes who show signs or experience symptoms of concussion nevertheless return to play on the same day, say researchers in a presentation at the American
