Recent Posts in Sports Injuries Category
Posted on Oct 4, 2018 By David Thomas
FOOTBALL JUST GOT A LITTLE BIT SAFER There is no denying it: football has been getting a lot of bad press in the last decade. No matter what aspect of the game you look it, or what level of play you ...
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Posted on Feb 14, 2018 By David Thomas
IN THE WINTER OLYMPICS, INJURIES ARE NO GAME The 2018 Winter Olympics are underway in PyeongChang, South Korea. The pageantry, spectacle, and sheer thrill of the Games has not disappointed so far, and ...
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Posted on Jan 3, 2017 By David Thomas
WINTER SPORTS TBI AWARENESS MONTH January is Winter Sports TBI, or Traumatic Brain Injury, Awareness Month. The most common form of Traumatic Brain Injury is a concussion, and one of the winter sports ...
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Posted on Jan 20, 2016 By David Thomas
PUSHING THE LIMITS... In our continuing series on Winter Sports TBI Awareness Month, the world of Extreme Winter Sports is certainly an important topic. Extreme winter sports have gained in ...
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Posted on Jan 14, 2016 By David Thomas
WINTER SPORTS TBI AWARENESS MONTH Winter. Frozen lakes and snowy hills provide the playgrounds used for recreational and competitive sports such as ice skating, skiing, sledding, snowboarding and ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2015 By David Thomas
THE MOST DANGEROUS SPORT Tyrell Cameron, a sixteen year old football player from Franklin Parish, Louisiana, died from a hard tackle that appears to have caused a broken neck. Ben Hamm, a junior ...
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Posted on Aug 12, 2015 By David Thomas
BICYCLING: MORE POPULAR AND MORE ACCIDENTS As a sport, bicycling has become increasingly popular. No longer primarily the province of spinning classes or the hard-core triathlete, bicycling is now an ...
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Posted on Aug 5, 2015 By David Thomas
TRAGEDY AT THE BALL PARK What was supposed to be an enjoyable time spent watching the Great American Pastime turned into a night of tragedy when nine-year-old Kaiser Carlile, batboy for the Kansas ...
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Posted on Mar 24, 2015 By David Thomas
On March 16th, the San Francisco 49er's star rookie, Chris Borland, shocked his team, the NFL, and much of the country by announcing his retirement from the sport in which he was already becoming ...
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Posted on Sep 3, 2014 By David Thomas
Part I of the Traumatic Brain Injury series discussed the most common causes of TBI and the symptoms and health effects associated with this increasingly common injury. Part II of this series focuses ...
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Posted on Sep 11, 2013 By David Thomas
Hard to believe, but another football season is upon us. Many of us look forward to watching our college and professional teams hit the fields and hit each other. Spectacular hits make for great ...
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