With finalists for the 2018 World Cup ready to face off this weekend, a new study released Wednesday sheds light on the cumulative impacts “heading” the soccer ball has on the neurological functions of players.
Read moreA federal judge in Philadelphia heard arguments Wednesday in the NFL’s request for a special investigator to look into what the league says are fraudulent claims in a $1 billion concussion settlement.
Read moreWorld Wrestling Entertainment won a federal lawsuit filed by two wrestlers who claimed they were not warned about the dangers of concussions, after a judge found the company did not hide what it knew about head trauma.
Read moreA new study suggests that modeling sports helmets after the skulls of woodpeckers may not be the whole answer to protecting athletes’ brains from injury.
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Seven-eighths of the brains of 202 former football players showed evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease linked to repeated blows to the head, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported Tuesday.
Read moreA federal class action transferred to Illinois is led by a former Big 12 NCAA athlete who suffered numerous concussions while playing football at University of Texas in the late ’90s.
Read moreAn attorney and family member of the doctor dragged off a United Airlines flight Sunday spoke out for the first time Thursday at a press conference in Chicago, saying he suffered a concussion and plans to sue over the incident that went viral.
Read moreA former DC United defenseman claims two attorneys from prominent personal injury law firms mishandled the discovery process in his suit seeking damages for the team’s poor treatment of a career-ending concussion he suffered during a game.
Read more(CN) – Playing a single season of high school football can change players’ brain composition, potentially exposing them to brain
Read moreA federal judge tossed from the ring claims against World Wrestling Entertainment by family of Doink the Clown, the late wrestling villain who overdosed on painkillers in 2013.
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