Hazing Lawsuit Alleges Pattern of Abuse and Humiliation Leading to Severe Personal Injury A now 21-year-old former member of the Clemson University Women’s Soccer team has filed a hazing lawsuit against the school’s athletic department, alleging a pattern of verbal and emotional abuse led to a hazing ritual that caused her to need plastic surgery, as well as long-term neurological treatment for a traumatic brain injury. Haley Ellen Hunt was only 18, and a freshman on Clemson’s soccer team, when she woke up in the middle of the night, was … [Read more...]
President Obama Calls for More Concussion Research
June 2, 2014 By Leave a Comment
President Calls for More, Better Research into Concussions in Children On Thursday, May 29th, President Barack Obama called for more robust research into concussions, especially in young adults and children. The president said that the medical community still faced too much uncertainty about the scope of the issue in children, as well as the long-term impact of concussions, whether a child has only one concussion, or faces repeated concussion injuries. “We want our kids participating in sports,” Obama said as he opened a day-long summit at … [Read more...]
Biomarkers Could Help Diagnose Concussions
March 19, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Biomarkers Could Help Doctors Diagnose Concussions in Athletes Swedish researchers studied information about sporting injuries, and found that a protein in the central nervous system could help doctors diagnose concussions and traumatic brain injuries in athletes, and help determine when players can get back to their sport. The team reports that they found a way to test blood for a protein called total tau, or T-tau for short. They linked the amount of protein in the blood, which is released when the brain is injured, to the severity of the … [Read more...]
New Study Suggests ‘Heading’ May Cause Brain Damage
December 12, 2011 By
South Carolina Personal Injury Attorneys New research, presented Tuesday at the Radiological Society of North American annual meeting, indicated that frequent "head balls" can cause the brain to suffer traumatic brain damage, especially if over 1,300 headers occur in a given year. For players who regularly practice their soccer skills, reaching this number is not unrealistic. Dr. Michael Lipton, the lead study author and Director of Radiology Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, claims that head balls actually occur more … [Read more...]
Moderate to Severe Brain Injuries
August 18, 2011 By
The National Institute for Neurological Injuries says between 8% - 10% of all traumatic brain injuries are moderate or severe brain injuries. Individuals undergo various tests in order to determine and rate the severity of the brain injury. For example, if post-injury amnesia lasts between 1 hour and 24 hours, the injury rating is typically listed as being moderate. Length of unconsciousness is another aspect that is used to rate traumatic brain injuries. If the unconsciousness lasts longer than 20 minutes, but not longer than six … [Read more...]
