In the past two decades, concussions have become major public health concerns. They account for 5%-9% of all sports-related injuries, particularly in contact sports, activities involving thrown ...

A primary care sports medicine specialist in the Jackie and Gene Autry Orthopedic Center, Dr. Santana has directed concussion oversight committees at multiple school districts and recently led CHLA's ...

As sport-related concussions continue to spark global concern, researchers at the University of South Australia (UniSA) are turning their attention to a largely overlooked group—non-professional ...

Concussions among high school athletes occur across a wide range of contact and limited-contact or noncontact sports, a study published online October 14 in Pediatrics has shown. Most of the injuries ...

During Australia’s winter sports seasons, hundreds of thousands of children will take to the field in contact sports like rugby league, rugby union, Australian rules and soccer. With this comes the ...

Complicating the athletics participation decisions for parents and children is that girls may experience sports-related concussions differently than boys. According to the CDC, girls have a higher ...

When playing sports, it's important to remember: Brains don't have seat belts. When rapid acceleration or deceleration of the brain inside the skull occurs with a blow to the head, a concussion ...

Kids can get head injuries in any number of ways, and a recent study explored how recovery differs when a concussion is a result of a sports injury versus non-sports related. The researchers learned ...

Athletes experiencing a concussion during a sports event are evaluated for return to play through clinical evaluation, without the need for imaging studies. We typically don't know with a high level ...

At CHLA, Jonathan Santana, DO, sees many of these young patients. A primary care sports medicine specialist in the Jackie and Gene Autry Orthopedic Center, Dr. Santana has directed concussion ...