Topic: Mark Lovell
0 View Larger Image . Pittsburgh -- Look at your right hand. Close your eyes. Do you know where it is? Are you certain?. . For months, Sidney ...
NCAA injury surveillance report shows football concussions leveled off from 2004-2008 A new study used by the NCAA has found that the rate of reported concussions in college football has leveled off.The Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention, which ...
"The mechanism to deliver fuel to cells is damaged, and if the brain is subjected to another insult, the cells will die," says David Hovda, the director of the Neurotrauma Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles. Under development by Roy ...
This week, National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell set new guidelines for the treatment of NFL players who have suffered concussions, decreeing that those who show signs of such injuries must be removed from a game or practice and not allowed to ...
In addition, the symptoms -- dizziness, nausea, headache, amnesia, or loss of consciousness -- can be hard to recognize, says Mark Lovell, PhD, director of the Sports Medicine Concussion Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The real danger is repeated head injuries ...
