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On bikes and scooters, “the best way to prevent an injury is to wear a helmet, and children need to follow the rules of the road,” an expert says.
Pepperdine Addresses Increases in Concussions Among Female Athletes
Concussions in college athletics are a general concern in high school, college and professional athletics teams. While national discussion tends to focus on football and boxing, sports traditionally dominated by males.
USBIA collaborates with other national brain injury organizations to form One Voice Coalition
USIBA participated in One Voice Coalition, a collaboration with other national brain injury organizations to develop a federal position paper describing the unmet needs of people with brain injury. Download the report here.
Nation’s Youth Sports Organizations and Health Leaders Unite to Launch Sports Concussion Partnership
National Sports Concussion Coalition to identify shared approaches to enhancing safer youth play A number of the nation’s most prominent youth sports organizations announced today that they will be partnering with concussion specialists, sports medicine professionals and leaders at other levels of sports to create an unprecedented coalition to prevent and manage concussions among young
It could be anywhere from $20 to $10,000 for a first-time offender—or no ban at all. The good news: fatal car crashes are on the decline. The bad news: fatal car crashes involving cell phone use—anything from texting to talking to reaching for a ringing phone—are on the rise. In fact, the leading cause of death for
One year ago, a handful of leading brain injury groups joined forces to create the United States Brain Injury Alliance (USBIA). Today, the success of the initiative can be measured by the joining of 21 state groups as USBIA members. More importantly, though, it is a testament to the groups’ collective commitment to working towards
Download your copy here! USBIA Annual Report
New documentary ‘The United States of Football’ takes a powerful look at the sport’s vulnerability when it comes to brain injuries
Watch the official trailer here!
June edition of Brain Injury Journey Magazine electronic version available for free
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