A former high school football player in Washington State is suing his old school district and a local chiropractic clinic for brain injuries he received in 2006. Adrien Gault alleges in his lawsuit that the Sequim School District didn’t follow…
The Near-Fatal Football Injury That Lead To California’s Proposed Laws on Concussions
We recently wrote that California is considering new legislation that would impose strict guidelines on when high school athletes can return to the field after sustaining head injuries. Only three other states have policies as strict as the one California…
California Weighs Strict Laws To Protect Student Athletes With Concussions
Momentum for the Lystedt Law which prevents a concussed scholastic athlete to return to the game in which he or she receives a concussion continues to grow. California, often on the vanguard of American culture and society, has joined the…
Evolution in the Understanding of Concussion – Length of Amnesia Correlates to Severity of Brain Damage
Continuing on with the discussion of my Concussion Clinic videos, today’s topic is The Length of Amnesia is the Best Predictor of Severity of Injury. Today’s video is here:http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=braininjuryattorney#p/u/8/WB9ErwpKnXk Brain injury is one of those things that everyone feels the…
Evolution in the Understanding of Concussion – Non-Athletes are At Much Higher Risk of Disability
Continuing on with the discussion of my Concussion Clinic videos, today’s topic is Non-Athletes are at Far Greater Risk of Disability. Today’s video is here: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=braininjuryattorney#p/u/5/Z3QvSHrWykI Sport is an ideal laboratory to study concussion. First, almost all sport concussions get…
Evolution in the Understanding of Concussion: The Need for Periodic Followups
Continuing on with the discussion of my Concussion Clinic videos, today’s topic is the Need for Periodic Follow-ups. Today’s video is here: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=braininjuryattorney#p/u/11/dEWHgwRywtY When the sport and concussion guidelines are applied properly there is a 15 minute post-injury evaluation to…
Evolution in the Understanding of Concussion: Distinguish Between Confusion and Amnesia in Diagnosing Concussion
Continuing on with the topic “The Evolution of Our Understanding of Concussion, Otherwise Called Mild Traumatic Brain Injury,” our next point of emphasis is the importance of distinguishing between confusion and amnesia after a brain injury. The video on this…
Evolution in the Understanding of Concussion: Adrenaline Increases Memory and Masks Post Traumatic Amnesia
Our next lesson on the topic “The Evolution of Our Understanding of Concussion, otherwise Called Mild Traumatic Brain Injury,” is the role that adrenaline plays in masking the most reliable marker for brain injury, that of Post Traumatic Amnesia. The…
Evolution in the Understanding of Concussion: Sport Concussion’s Get Witnessed and Documented
Continuing with this blog’s treatment of the “The Evolution of Our Understanding of Concussion, otherwise Called Mild Traumatic Brain Injury,” today I focus on the huge diagnostic disadvantage real world concussions have in the diagnostic process. While the sport concussion…
The Evolution of Our Understanding of Concussion, otherwise Called Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
I have been blogging over the holidays about concussions because once again they have been in the news. As discussed on this blog, Texas Tech coach Mike Leach was fired because of his forced isolation of wide receiver Adam James…