For many children, playing sports is an important part of maintaining a well-rounded lifestyle. Sports teach student-athletes things like fitness, discipline and teamwork, but there is a degree of ...

Children fall quite often, and head injuries are relatively common. So how can you tell if your child has suffered a ...

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

Headaches can linger long after the initial blow. May 3, 2013— -- She was just a 12-year-old athlete when it happened: A blow to the head from a lacrosse ball left Marianna Consiglio with a ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The University of Arkansas for Medical Science announced Thursday that the National Football League and the NFL Players Association awarded medical researchers half a million ...

I understood that the brain is like a points-based license. I slowly ate away at the points in my brain and I was close to ...

People who have headaches after experiencing concussions may also be more likely to have higher levels of iron in areas of the brain, which is a sign of injury to brain cells, according to a ...

We talked one-on-one with pediatric emergency doctor, Clint Pollack from Valley Children's Hospital. He's here with some guidelines to answer some of the most common questions and medical ...

Recent stories about the long-term health effects of concussions have put the National Football League on the defensive. A critic says the league has made misguided attempts to solve a problem exposed ...

Male youth athletes reporting neck pain or headache at baseline assessment were at an increased risk of concussion during the season, after adjusting for age group, body checking, year of play, ...

OREM, Utah (KUTV) — A bystander claimed she sustained a concussion after getting struck during an assault of the mayor caught on camera following an Orem City Council meeting. Stephanie Grant was ...