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What's New, Top Stories, Prevention & Risk Reduction, Identification & Diagnosis
August 8, 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.
Immediate Concussion Symptom Reporting Shortens Recovery Time By Five Days
Immediately reporting concussion symptoms is in a team’s best interests because it gives the athlete the best chance to return to sport activity in the shortest amount of time and
Rosemarie Scolaro Moser, Ph. D.
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What's New, Identification & Diagnosis
August 1, 2016
- Rosemarie Scolaro Moser, Ph. D.
Author: Rosemarie Scolaro Moser, PhD, ABN, ABPP-RP is a practicing neuropsychologist and director of the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, and currently serves on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Expert Panel on Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Dr. Moser is an active scientific researcher and author of Ahead of the Game: The Parents’ Guide to Youth Sports Concussion (Dartmouth College Press).
Changing Attitudes About Concussion Reporting: More Than Legislation Needed
Now that all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia have youth concussion laws in place, we have jumped the biggest hurdle, right? Then why is that there is
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What's New, Prevention & Risk Reduction
June 20, 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.
More States Have Adopted Sports Safety Best Practices, But Gaps Persist
Statistics released by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association in March 2016 show improvement in the number of states which have adopted best practices in three major areas of sports safety, but
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What's New, Effects of Concussion and Repetitive Head Impacts
June 20, 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.
Prominent Researcher Backs Heading Ban In Youth Soccer
In November 2015, a group of national and state youth soccer organizations announced a series of steps designed to make the game safer. Included were a ban on heading in
Lindsey Straus
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What's New, Top Stories
February 12, 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.
Pop Warner Settlement: Seismic Shift In Legal Landscape Or Just A Warning Shot?
In January 2016, Pop Warner reached a confidential settlement with Donnovan Hill, a Los Angeles-area football player who was rendered a quadriplegic at age 13 as a result of a helmet-to-helmet collision
Brooke de Lench
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What's New, Treatment & Management, Concussion Essentials
November 8, 2015
- 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.
Post-Concussion Strategies for the Classroom
Even when a student-athlete has recovered enough from a concussion to return to the classroom (which most experts now say can occur after only a few days at home, and
Lindsey Straus
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What's New, Identification & Diagnosis
November 4, 2015
- 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.
Chronic Under-Reporting of Concussion Symptoms By Athletes Continues
Chronic under-reporting of concussions among high school football players persists, despite increased awareness, education and legislation, say researchers in a presentation made at the October 2015 American Academy of Pediatrics
Lindsey Straus
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What's New, Prevention & Risk Reduction
October 31, 2015
- 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.
Pediatrics Group Declines To Endorse Outright Ban On Tackle Football
On October 18, 2015 the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a much-awaited Policy Statement on Tackling in Youth Football, joining those calling for limits in the number of contact practices,
Lindsey Straus
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What's New, Top Stories, Treatment & Management
May 11, 2015
- 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.
Concussions Hurt Academic Learning And Performance of Children and Teens
Student-athletes who experience lingering concussion symptoms and their parents worry more about the negative effect of concussion on learning and school performance, report more school-related problems, and more classes posing difficulty than
Brooke de Lench
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What's New, Top Stories, Blogs
December 8, 2014
- 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.
Improving Concussion Safety In Youth Sports: Why I Opt For Grass Roots Activism Over Class Action Lawsuits
Last week was chock full of news on the youth sports safety front. Nocsae decertified two men’s lacrosse helmets, and I fielded some troubling emails about child sports safety advocates who allegedly
