From “punch-drunk” boxers to Junior Seau, the NFL player whose family says he committed suicide because of brain injuries, knocks on the head have long been suspected of causing long-term damage in professional sports.
They’ve heard the success stories: Veterans with PTSD finally able to sleep, less afraid of going out in public and able to deal with stress better, all with the help of a dog.
For many young athletes, mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) may always be a risk.
Almost $18,000 in donations has been raised by AMVETS Post 26, local businesses and the community for a traumatic brain injury study at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in New York.
The Obama administration announced two new collaborative efforts to research mild traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder in military servicemembers and veterans.
President Obama has announced new research projects focused “on developing more effective ways to prevent, diagnose and treat mental health conditions like TBI and PTSD.”
Virginia Commonwealth University researchers will lead a $62.2 million federally funded effort involving multiple universities, military installations and veterans hospitals to better understand how to prevent, diagnose and treat concussions.
The way it’s been explained to her family, 20-year-old Ellie Cizek has about 18 months to regain the memory and thinking skills she lost on the Colorado ski slopes in January, when she glanced off a chairlift post and slammed headfirst into a tree.
“Be careful” — two words Rebecca Kozowyk says she will never say again.
Rhode Island Hospital is planning to join a national study with an unusual feature: Participants will become research subjects without giving their consent. They can’t; they’ll be unconscious.