Word: concussional
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The word concussion tends to evoke macho images when you're talking about sports: hulking football players flying across the field, crushing their heads into one another's helmets, lucky if they can count their fingers by the end of the game. But brain pain doesn't affect just boys...
In the post-Title IX era, female sports are more competitive than they have ever been. And with higher stakes have come more hazardous consequences. Boys who play football are still more likely to suffer concussions than any other athletes, but in some sports played by both sexes, girls actually...
Of course, many girls suck it up too, but there are anatomical reasons that explain why they are more likely to have a concussion diagnosed. For starters, look to the neck. Bigger, stronger neck muscles can balance the head during impact and lower the chances of the brain's being...
How can young female athletes protect themselves? Many sports-medicine pros recommend that girls work with coaches to strengthen their neck muscles. Another solution, especially for soccer players, is to wear protective headgear. Since its inception in 2002, a San Diego-based company, Full 90, has sold some 200,000...
NEW HAVEN—It was their finest hour. The team that everyone had been waiting for all season finally appeared in its full glory on Saturday, trampling the previously unbeaten Bulldogs in the biggest edition of The Game in 39 years. The Crimson was everything it had the potential...