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What's New, Top Stories, Treatment & Management
January 11, 2019
- 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.
Little Uniformity Seen In Criteria Used In Studies Evaluating Return To Play Decisions After Sport-Related Concussion
Experts recommend that return to play (RTP) decisions after a sport-related concussion (SRC) be based on multiple measures of recovery (1), but a recent literature review by researchers at SUNY-Buffalo (2) found
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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
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Treatment & Management, Concussion Essentials
October 24, 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.
Return to Learn Just As Important As Return To Sports, Says AAP
Helping a student-athlete make a successful return to learning after a concussion is just as important as ensuring their safe return to sports, and requires a team approach involving parents,
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Top Stories, Identification & Diagnosis
August 2, 2016
- Shannon Bauman, M.D.
Author: Medical Director and founder of Concussion North, a physician led inter-disciplinary team-based clinic specializing in sports injuries and sports related concussions in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. A member of the Team Physician committee for the Canadian Academy of Sports and Exercise Medicine (CASEM); she is a researcher and speaker on concussions, serves as medical advisor to the Simcoe County District School Board (SCDSB) Concussion Committee and Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA), and has been involved in the development of medical guidelines for the management of concussions for the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (ONF). As a Sports Medicine physician, Shannon has been involved with the Hamilton Bulldogs (AHL), Toronto Rock Lacrosse (NLL), Toronto Nationals (MLL), Hamilton Nationals (MLL), World Cup Sledge Hockey 2009, 2010 Vancouver Olympics Men's Sledge Hockey, and Team Canada Senior Women’s Lacrosse World Cup.
Athlete’s Request To Play Despite Continuing Concussion Symptoms Raises Many Questions
In reflecting on the culture of sport and the reasons an athlete may or may not report a concussion, I think about a 15-year-old-male elite rugby player who came to my office
Brooke de Lench
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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.
Recovering from Concussion: Teachers Can Help Students With Memory Problems
Students with concussions, particularly those who have suffered multiple concussions, often have trouble retaining new information and retrieving information when needed, such as when taking a test or answering a
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
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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
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What's New, Top Stories, Treatment & Management
October 27, 2013
- 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 Post-Concussion Help For Students In Classroom Needed
An overwhelming majority of both athletes returning to the classroom after a concussion and their parents are “very concerned” that academic performance will be negatively affected, finds a recent survey. Majorities
