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  Lindsey Straus Lindsey Straus in 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.

  • Lindsey Straus

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

  Lindsey Straus Lindsey Straus in 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.

  • Lindsey Straus

Girls More Likely to Report Concussions, But Belief That Injury Not Serious Still Driving Underreporting, Regardless of Gender

More concussion education to change attitudes and beliefs needed

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 Lindsey Straus in 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.

  • Lindsey Straus

Few States Regulate Return To Learn After Concussion, Study Finds

Some experts view expanding concussion laws as unnecessary to return to learning after concussion

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 Lindsey Straus in 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.

  • Lindsey Straus

Four in Ten Youth and High School Athletes Continue Playing With Concussion Signs and Symptoms

Research abstract presented at 2016 AAP National Conference &

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

  Shannon Bauman, M.D. Shannon Bauman, M.D. in 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.

  • Shannon Bauman, M.D.

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

  Lindsey Straus Lindsey Straus in 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.

  • Lindsey Straus

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

  Lindsey Straus Lindsey Straus in Treatment & Management, Concussion Essentials May 8, 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.

  • Lindsey Straus

Return to Play After Concussion Is Step-By-Step Process

Protocol should only commence after concussion symptoms clear and student-athlete is no longer on any academic accommodations

According to the most recent international consensus statement on concussion in sport, return to play (RTP) after a child or teen suffers a sport concussion should be a step-by-step, graduated, exercise-limited,

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