Vanderbilt clinicians power a multidiscipline approach with leading-edge technology for the successful treatment of vestibular disorders. A feature for Physical Therapy Products by Holly Cauthen, PT, DPT, and Kelsey Hatton, AuD, CCC-A.
On average, impacts are more frequent during drills, more severe during games, according to researchers.
USA Cheer, the US governing body for sport cheering and the sport of STUNT and TeachAids, a nonprofit social enterprise behind the CrashCourse concussion education technology, announce a new partnership.
U.S. Soccer announces it has partnered with TeachAids to incorporate CrashCourse materials into its suite of concussion education offerings.
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TeachAids, the Brain Injury Association of America, and the National Council of Youth Sports, along with US Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s national governing bodies, launch the CrashCourse Concussion Story Wall as part of Brain Injury Awareness Month.
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Female and male collegiate athletes take approximately the same amount of time to recover from a concussion, with subtle differences in recovery time depending on the type of sports being played and the division level of the sport.
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in partnership with TeachAids, HitCheck — a mobile app that allows clinicians and trainers to baseline and screen for cognitive assessment — now offers the concussion education platform CrashCourse for free to its users.
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U.S. Ski & Snowboard announces a partnership with non-profit health education innovator TeachAids to provide members concussion education resources as part of the organization’s ongoing commitment to athlete health and wellness.
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TeachAids, a nonprofit social venture leader in creating software addressing persistent problems in health education around the world, announces the launch of its new Institute for Brain Research and Innovation.
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College football players may underestimate their risk of injury and concussion. This raises important ethical considerations, according to a study published recently in JAMA Network Open.
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Nearly half of adolescents who sought specialty care for a concussion were back to driving when asked approximately 2 weeks after the injury, even though few had returned to exercise and sports, according to researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing), in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
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USA Gymnastics announces a new partnership with TeachAids to provide members access to CrashCourse materials as part of the organization’s commitment to athlete health and wellness.
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States with college teams in strong conferences, in particular the Southeastern Conference (SEC), were among the last to take up regulations on youth concussions, a study published recently in Social Science & Medicine suggests.
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A study published recently in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America highlights the risk of concussion for dance, circus, theater and film and television stunt performers, and offers guidelines for treatment.
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Board-certified neurologist Kester J. Nedd, DO, draws on his experience as a traumatic brain injury and concussion specialist to answer fundamental questions and bring awareness about the severity of the silent epidemic of this neurological condition in his new book, Concussion: Traumatic Brain Injury from Head to Tail.
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Doctors may soon be able to more accurately diagnose concussions by measuring the number of certain molecules in a person’s saliva, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers, in Clinical and Translational Medicine.
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Baylor Scott & White Texas Spine and Joint Hospital Tyler, part of a large not-for-profit healthcare system in Texas, announces that it utilizes HitCheck as its exclusive cognitive assessment tool on the field for student athletes.
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USA Hockey announces it has partnered with TeachAids to utilize CrashCourse as a resource in its overall concussion education materials, according to a media release.
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