The Game Plan: Sideline Assessment for Suspected Concussion
You can't always see a concussion, but you can see and learn how to assess one....
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NIH awards $10 million to study concussions in schoolkids
The Four Corners Youth Consortium, co-founded by The Sports Institute to research concussions in kids ages 11 to 17, has received $10 million from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke...
Brain Injury Today: Tracing Sports Safety Policy In Washington
Our co-founder, Dr. Stan Herring, speaks with Brain Injury Alliance of Washington on improving sports policy in the state and across the nation....
Brain Injury Today: Keeping Kids Safe Playing The Sports They Love!
Our co-founder, Dr. Stan Herring, joins Brain Injury Alliance of Washington for this episode of Brain Injury Today....
Law that gives trainers authority to pull players at center of effort to combat concussions
In 2006, playing in a middle school football game, Lystedt suffered a blow to his head. He returned to the game and was hit again, this time suffering a catastrophic brain injury that had him on life support for a week. His recovery required intense physical therapy. It was nine months before he could speak. It was two years before doctors could remove his feeding tube...
Healthy Living: Youth soccer pilot program teaches kids how to ‘be in the air’ to reduce risk of concussions
When we think about injuries on the soccer field, concussions often come to mind. Experts say most concussions in soccer come from a collision with the ground or another player and not from actually heading the ball. That's why researchers at The Sports Institute at UW Medicine launched a pilot program called Aerial, to teach kids how to head the ball properly...
Healthy Living: 10 years since Washington State passed first return-to-play law for youth sports
It's been 10 years since Washington State passed the Zack Lystedt Law, the nation's first return-to-play law to address and safely manage concussions in youth sports ...
Youth Football Concussion Rate is 5%, Study Finds
New research from UW Medicine's Sports Health and Safety Institute and Seattle Children’s Research Institute found concussion rates among football players ages 5 to 14 were higher than previously reported, with five out of every 100 youth, or 5 percent, sustaining a football-related concussion each season...