Head Injury

March is Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month, a condition that has led to permanent disability in more than 5 million individuals in the United States.

In young male American football players, concussion symptoms and severity were higher for those who sustained the injury on natural grass compared with artificial turf, according to new research in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine.

PHILADELPHIA — Among men who played American football, researchers found that exposure to the sport at a younger age was strongly associated with worse cognitive performance and resilience, particularly in those who lived to at least 60 years.

Despite the brain being one of the most important organs of the body, breakthroughs in brain health, specifically the way we measure cognition, have been largely unchanged in decades.

In a cohort of adults with traumatic brain injury, level of impairment for those who exhibited cognitive impairment after 6 months was directly correlated to TBI severity, according to research from JAMA Network Open.

WASHINGTON — There was a 71% increase in electric scooter injuries among youth aged 18 years and younger from 2020 to 2021, according to a study presented at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition.

PHILADELPHIA — Individuals who sustained a head injury had a 34% higher risk for suffering ischemic stroke than those who did not have a head injury, according to an expert at the American Neurological Association annual meeting.

Researchers from the Concussion in Sport Group have released a consensus on sport-specific strategies for concussion prevention and treatment, according to a statement published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

LAS VEGAS — According to results presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, head injuries are increasing among high school athletes despite an overall decrease in injury rates since 2006.

Head injury was associated with decreased long-term survival time in a community-based cohort with more than 30 years of follow-up, researchers wrote in JAMA Neurology.