Head & Brain Injuries

• Head Injury Concerns Lead to Baseball Bat Ban for Virginia High Schools

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | January 16, 2011 12:28 PM | 2 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Starting this season, high school baseball players in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake and every other city and county in Virginia (VA) will have to use wooden bats or aluminum bats engineered to...

• Snowmobilers' Have A Code Of Ethics

  Mike Bryant | January 15, 2011 9:16 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  Previously I wrote about the DNR tips for snowmobile riding. What I learned about recently through a very informative St Cloud Times editorial which was reprinted by the Minneapolis Tribune was that...

• Did You Know… You Should Be Aware Of Potential Dangers While Snow Skiing?

  Brett Emison | January 03, 2011 11:57 AM | 2 CommentsKansas City, MO

  Happy New Year! I was fortunate to get a few days off between Christmas and New Year's and spent the time with my family in Colorado. I must admit it had been a while since I had been...

• Recognizing Brain Injury or Closed Head Trauma?

  Michael Roberts | December 30, 2010 3:16 PM | 2 CommentsGadsden, AL

  People who have been in accidents are often unaware that their brains have been injured; when the head is subject to trauma, such as when it is struck by something or even just violently shaken,...

• Brain Injuries: Multiple Sclerosis Aggravation by Stress and Trauma

  Claude Wyle | December 23, 2010 12:00 PM | 2 CommentsSan Francisco, CA

  There is a well established medical relationship between the aggravation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and stress and head trauma. The medical literature associated with MS which has come out since...

• Tricare Puts Profits Over Health of Brain Damaged Soldiers

  Michael Phelan | December 23, 2010 10:53 AM | 4 CommentsRichmond, VA

  The signature injury to our brave soldiers fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is traumatic brain injury, which is often the result of blast waves from roadside bombs. Studies suggest that as...

• Wishing You a Safe and Happy Sledding Season

  Mark Bello | December 18, 2010 7:31 AM | 0 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI

  For most of us, winter is already upon us with plenty of snow to send the kids to the neighborhood sledding hills. They will speed down a straight path or take a different approach as they spin...

• The Forgotten Injury After TBI: The Injury to the Marriage

  Timothy Smith | December 16, 2010 12:32 PM | 2 CommentsTraverse City, MI

  It is clear to the doctors who treat traumatic brain injury, as well as the attorneys that represent those same injured individuals, that the organic damage to the brain itself is a very real injury...

• Seat Back Failure Studies – Video from NBC Philadelphia

  Jackie Lecher | December 02, 2010 1:11 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  During the drive to Thanksgiving Dinner last week, one of the topics that came up was the safest seat in the car in the event of an accident. My future inlaws and I formed the consensus that the...

• Football: Why So Many Head and Neck Injuries?

  Larry Coben | November 24, 2010 10:13 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  (Click Here to See AP Photo/Miles Kennedy from Delco Times) This play was so very typical of what we see every weekend across the country. Young men “mixing it up” for the love...