Five years ago, the director of imaging at UPMC Altoona organized the first Kids Safety Day in an attempt to reduce the number and severity of the broken bones, concussions and other injuries the ...

Doctor Ben Jones, a former scrum-half with Northampton, Worcester and England 7s, has called for concussion guidelines to be revised to improve player safety. Dr Jones’ research team have found that ...

This was despite them feeling well enough to return to the field under Rugby Football Union clearance protocols. Leading ...

Grassroots rugby concussion guidelines need to be improved as players' brains remain altered despite them being symptom-free ...

Amateur rugby union players who suffer concussion injuries should spend more time on the sidelines than currently required, a ...

Trauma centers nationwide will begin to test a new approach for assessing traumatic brain injury (TBI) that is expected to lead to more accurate diagnoses and more appropriate treatment and follow-up ...

A team of neurologists led by UCSF scientists has developed a new scale for assessing damage caused by brain trauma that could overhaul the field of concussion medicine and help doctors better treat ...

A CT scan is a diagnostic imaging exam that uses X-ray technology to produce images of the inside of the body. A CT scan can show detailed images of any part of the body, including the bones, muscles, ...

the types of tests for concussion, and how results are interpreted. A mild or moderate TBI can cause damage to the brain that isn't detectable with brain imaging tests. Yet the damage can cause ...

After friends led him off the field, he was diagnosed with a bad concussion. Gonzales was lucky his friends recognized he needed help: Continuing to play after a serious head injury risks ...

TAMPA (BLOOM) – Frankie Maldonado, the Director of Operations for Life Guard Imaging joins Gayle Guyardo, the host of Bloom, to share more about their innovative CT scan and how it compares to a ...

"I was bleeding, but they never once checked me for concussion, which I find a bit odd, to be honest. "Like, it was visible that my glasses were broken, I had blood on my face, I even had a little ...