A Quick Test to Detect Athletes’ Concussions

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | February 18, 2011

Some sports such as foot­ball are par­tic­u­larly vio­lent and many play­ers suf­fer con­cus­sions. Con­cus­sions can cause a vari­ety of phys­i­cal, cog­ni­tive, and emo­tional symp­toms. Although symp­toms usu­ally go away with­in a few weeks with­out treat­ment, they may per­sist, or com­pli­ca­tions (such as demen­tia) may occur. Recent evi­dence shows that even hits to the head that…

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Football: Even “minor” hits can cause brain damage

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | November 1, 2010 |

Today the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Neu­rol­o­gy (AAN) “is call­ing for any ath­lete who is sus­pect­ed of hav­ing a con­cus­sion to be removed from play until the ath­lete is eval­u­at­ed by a physi­cian with train­ing in the eval­u­a­tion and man­age­ment of sports con­cus­sion.” At the same time, an arti­cle in Sports Illus­trat­ed reports a new study in…

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