A preliminary study examined more than 70,000 traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) in youth sports, including football, soccer, basketball, cheerleading and volleyball. Football accounted for the largest ...

Linemen across the youth, high school and college football levels should be subject to different training methods to the point of putting them in air-conditioned spaces to avoid exertional heat stroke ...

Playing tackle football under the age of 12 exposes children to repetitive head impacts that may double their risk of developing behavioral problems and triple their chances of suffering depression ...

DALLAS — Their youthful brains were developing normally, with no signs of developmental, psychological or neurological problems. None had ever had a concussion. But by the end of a single football ...

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Publicity over a new study, presented last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, has us scared for football players. But should it? The article, entitled Clinicopathological ...

Youth football participation in the U.S. has dropped in recent years as parents have grown more concerned about concussions. A new study could accelerate that trend. The research, by noted brain ...

(CNN) — Their youthful brains were developing normally, with no signs of developmental, psychological or neurological problems. None had ever had a concussion. But by the end of a single football ...