Purdue
Lindsey Straus
Brooke de Lench
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Top Stories, Effects of Concussion and Repetitive Head Impacts
June 10, 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.
- 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.
Repetitive Head Impacts: A Major Concern At All Levels of Sports
Growing body of research suggests CTE results from accumulation of undiagnosed subconcussive head trauma
UPDATED A growing body of research suggests that brain trauma among football players (and athletes in other sports such as soccer and ice hockey) is less the result of violent collisions
