Concussions Aren’t Just For Football Players When Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa got his third concussion since 2022, people started worrying about football safety again. They also wondered how to know when it’s safe to play sports after a concussion. A week later, a high school football player got a bad concussion and had to…
Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries: Impact, Prevalence, and Management Amidst the din of visible injuries, mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) often lurk in the shadows, their silent yet profound impact overshadowed by more overt traumas. Despite their seemingly invisible nature, these injuries take a staggering toll on individuals, families, and society as a whole, both in…
Scientists have watched a mild traumatic brain injury play out in the living brain, prompting swelling that reduces blood flow and connections between neurons to die. “Even with a mild trauma, we found we still have these ischemic blood vessels and, if blood flow is not returned to normal, synapses start to die,” said Dr….
