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Educating student-athletes on Concussions

CBS News Feature on ATSNJ member, Nick Nicholaides of Ridgewood High School and his concussion awareness program.

 

In addition to the CBS Feature above, when Katie Couric's producer called Nick Nicholaides a few weeks ago, it was one sign of the success of the Ridgewood High School (RHS) athletic trainer's concussion awareness program.  Nicholaides was featured on Couric's new ABC talk show., but the real success of the program appears to be a recent reduction of concussions among Ridgewood student athletes.

Click here to read another story in the North Jersey Record regarding Nick and his program. 

Former NFL star talks to young athletes about concussions

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cite an alarming statistic — an estimated 1.275 million concussion or similar traumatic brain injuries to Americans per year.

More important to Dr. Stephen Rice, director of Sports Medicine at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, than the statistic —one he suspects might be too conservative — is awareness of concussions.

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Catawba player walking thanks to athletic trainer, surgeons

A Catawba College football player who broke two vertebrae in his neck Saturday during practice is walking again thanks to a quick response by medical personnel. 

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Medical issues end duo's careers

This young man's college career was over before it started.  He committed to Purdue in 2011 and dreamed of playing D1 football, but his career was cut short due to lingering symptoms from a concussion. It's important to remember that brain injuries needs ample time to recover and kids who play while "a little symptomatic" are at greater risk for lingering and long term problems.
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The Woman Who Would Save Football

The door to Ann McKee's office is a shrine to the human brain: artistic, scientific, and comic. An iridescent Andy Warhol carrying a Campbell's Soup can keeps company with a newspaper photograph of the anatomist and neurologist who created the Wilder Brain Collection at Cornell University. A teenage boy slouches across a 2006 cover of The New Yorker, the lobes of his not-yet-adult brain depicted under a baseball cap. "MySpace" dominates his prefrontal cortex, an illustration of just how much has changed in social media, sports, and brain science. A bumper sticker asks, "Got brains?
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Expert on youth sports concussions points to SJU's Gagliardi for solution

Dr. Robert Cantu, a leading national expert on the issue of sports concussions, makes recommendations in his upcoming book, Concussions and Our Kids, that will no doubt raise eyebrows among some parents and youth sports coaches.
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Man dies day after lightning strike

Although not a "true" sports injury, this article highlights the fact that lightning can cause death and when present, people need to seek appropriate shelter. Everyone should include what to do in the event of lightning into their Emergency Action Plans.
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Senator Tom Udall Applauds FTC Action on Misleading Sports Equipment

Udall Applauds FTC Action on Misleading Sports Equipment
Company Examined in Committee Hearing Last year

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) joined Commerce Committee Chairman John D. (Jay) Rockefeller today to commend the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for taking action against a company for making marketing claims about its product’s ability to reduce the risk of concussions that were not supported by sound scientific evidence...

CBS2 News: Football Safety for Young Players

CBS 2 New York News' Dr Max Gomez recently gave a report on football safety for young athletes.  In this piece, Dr Gomez details some of the changes that Pop Warner football is implementing.  ATSNJ Past President Michael Prybicien is featured in the video which can be seen on the CBS News Website.

CBS2 News: Football Safety for Young Players

As the South Bakes, Is it Too Hot for High School Football?

Lightning strikes above the live oaks lining the practice field in this coastal town in southeast Georgia. Coach Jeff Herron blows his whistle three times, giving the evacuation orders. A cheer of "Hey!" erupts from the 160 football players as they happily hustle off the field and into the gym. 
Coach Herron doesn't share their enthusiasm. A lost practice puts his Camden County High School Wildcats — three-time state champions, in '03, '08, and '09 — even further behind schedule. On Aug. 1, the team was forced to scale back its first full-contact practice due to this year's new statewide heat rules. 
"It was on the border," Herron said of that day's weather reading, a complex formula of temperature, humidity and radiant heat. "We were planning on coming out in full pads, but we couldn't do it."
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