A warning to parents of your kids have ever suffered a concussion. Concussions in childhood may trigger long term brain changes. University of California Riverside biomedical researchers found subtle ...

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - As the stands fill this football season, fans are hoping for big action and game-breaking plays from their favorite teams. But parents also worry about their kids’ safety on ...

Taking a punishing hit on the football field or soccer pitch; having your head jostle around during a car accident; experiencing a fall from a ladder. An estimated 3.8 million concussions occur each ...

MARTINEZ, Calif. (KRON) — Two players suffered concussions during a Friday night high school football game in the Bay Area, parents told KRON4. One of the injured Alhambra High School players was ...

Tua Tagovailoa knows what it means to play through risk. Multiple concussions across his career have forced the Miami Dolphins quarterback to rethink how he prepares. This season, he’s added a new, ...

While most in the sports community now know the long-term dangers of repeated concussions, have the major leagues actually ...

PARIS (AP) — Former France forward Paul Willemse announced his retirement from rugby on Monday after sustaining multiple concussions during his career. The South Africa-born lock has not played since ...

The word “concussion” may bring to mind football players and other athletes. Or maybe someone who’s been in a bad car wreck. But the truth is that a concussion isn’t always the result of a severe ...

A UNC-Chapel Hill study conducted by the Matthew Gfellar Center studied more than 1,500 former NFL players found that two of the most commonly used ways to estimate head injury risk, years played and ...

A previous concussion has been linked to an increased risk of a subsequent car crash ending in permanent disability, not necessarily because of injury severity, but because the brain appears to lack ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A new study in mice reports that concussions sustained early in life can cause subtle brain changes that re-emerge later in life. The findings, published in Experimental Neurology ...