It’s a common fear for parents whose children may get hurt while playing sports. It’s a common fear for parents whose children may get hurt while playing sports. What should they do when their child ...

NEW YORK (KGO) -- Parents, listen up if you have a child athlete. There are more alerts about concussions from a recent study on their potential long term harm. When you hear sport and concussion you ...

The management of traumatic brain injury and concussion in children should feature almost immediate cognitive effort and a ...

Doctors prescribe off-label medications to treat the symptoms of concussion. This can include acetaminophen, sertraline, ...

Young athletes aren’t always quick to recognize concussion symptoms, and some may even hide or downplay what they’re feeling to keep playing. But identifying a concussion quickly is important for ...

Graded aerobic treadmill testing is safe, tolerable, and useful in evaluating and managing cases of sports-related concussion in children and adolescents. This is the ...

Dr. Bob Wilmott is chief of pediatrics at Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center. From climbing trees to making tall bike ramps that are hastily disassembled before parents get home, children ...

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 ...

A year ago, I argued that if we want to limit the number of kids suffering concussions from playing youth football, then adults should not allow them to play tackle until age 14. Until then, children ...

Concussions can leave lasting effects on vision, with nearly half of young patients experiencing disorders that disrupt daily ...

A new study finds socioeconomic disparities in rates of emergency department (ED) visits for concussion among children and youth. Researchers from ICES, York University, Toronto Metropolitan ...

Tom Brady is the gifted quarterback of the New England Patriots, widely regarded (even by Jets’ fans) as one of the best ever at his position. But when he was a kid in the late 1980s and early ’90s, ...