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Sports Injury Expert Dawn Comstock Talks Concussion Prevention
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Paul Steinbach,
April 2013
There are few better brains to pick on the subject of prep sports injuries than the one residing in Dawn Comstock's head. Eight years ago, the injury epidemiologist joined the faculty at Ohio State University and established as her first major research initiative the National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance System — an NFHS-endorsed online tool that hundreds of certified athletic trainers across the country use weekly to report injury exposure and incidents, logging up to 300 distinct variables for each injury in the process.
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Grad Student Zack Goodman Researches Heart Rates in Ice Hockey
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Paul Steinbach,
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
You've read reports of impact-sensing technology affixed to the interiors of football helmets, but you likely haven't heard of heart rate monitoring equipment tucked inside hockey pants ...
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Can Cardio Exercise Aid in Concussion Recovery?
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Michael Popke,
February 2013
Long considered a forbidden activity for individuals with concussions, cardiovascular exercise is slowly becoming recognized as a recovery tool.
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Stanford Professor Talks Sleep Deprivation Among Athletes
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Paul Steinbach,
January 2013
William Dement wakes up students who doze in his class (there's at least one every day) by targeting them with a squirt gun, often after classmates in a lecture hall of 300 have pointed the person out.
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Concussions: Bridging Gap Between Athletic, Academic Departments
By
Michael Popke,
January 2013
David Hayward began thinking differently about his job the day the parents of a student-athlete at Highland High School in Gilbert, Ariz., expressed frustration to him about their son's lack of academic progress while recovering from a concussion.
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States Seek to Ensure Student-Athlete Safety in High Heat
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Michael Popke,
July 2012
July 26 marks the one-year anniversary of what Douglas Casa, a leading expert on exertional heat illness, called “the worst week in the last 35 years in terms of athlete deaths.”
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Fighting in Ice Hockey Faces Unprecedented Scrutiny
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Paul Steinbach,
May 2012
Derek Boogaard’s brain is handled with care these days. It resides with dozens of others at Boston University, donated to the Sports Legacy Institute so that it might be studied for signs of long-term damage.
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AED Advocate Rachel Moyer Keeps Working the Beat
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Paul Steinbach,
December 2011
Greg Moyer's grave is marked by a homemade cross. Rachel Moyer vowed not to purchase a headstone until every school in America had an automated external defibrillator, the emergency heart-rhythm equipment that might have saved her 15-year-old son from sudden cardiac arrest during a basketball game in December 2000 — if only his high school had owned one.
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Former Athlete Chris Nowinski Discusses Brain Trauma
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Paul Steinbach,
October 2011
Former Harvard University football player Chris Nowinski estimates that he suffered at least five concussions by the time an opponent's boot to the chin knocked him out of professional wrestling in June 2003.
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High Schools Get Aggressive About Concussion Education
By
Michael Popke,
October 2011
Arizona is leading the next phase of concussion education and management.
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