A new study has found that a kid who has suffered a concussion – even a mild one – is 15% less likely to go on to higher ...

nearly 20% of patients seen by the Sports Medicine team at Children's Hospital Los Angeles are children with concussions. That's not surprising, given that nationwide, up to 1.9 million youth a year ...

In sports, beneath the competitive spirit and the cheers of the crowd, there’s an often-invisible risk: traumatic brain ...

During Australia's winter sports seasons, hundreds of thousands of children will take to the field in contact sports like ...

Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have found that when it comes to concussion recovery, sleep matters. In a study ...

Results Sixty-nine articles characterising 60 unique samples met inclusion criteria, representing 89 114 children with concussion. Forty articles (33 studies) contributed to a random effects ...

Concussion damage could linger in an athlete's brain for at least a year, long after they've rejoined their sport, a new study says.

Advertisement Getting seven hours of sleep each night doubled a child's chances of recovering quickly during the first week after a concussion, researchers also found. On the other hand ...

About 3.9 million children play organized soccer in the U.S. each year, making it one of the most popular youth sports in America. Headers have long been associated with concussion risk, so in 2016, ...

In 2015, the USSF banned the use of the head to impact the ball in athletes younger than 10 years old. The header ban also ...

Objective: Previous studies suggest athletes underreport concussions. We sought to determine whether athletes in our clinics have sustained previous concussions that went undiagnosed. Design ...