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concussion
Published 1 May 2012 (All day) on Media Release
Published 14 April 2012 (All day) by Daniel Nugent-Bowman on Edmonton Journal
SASKATOON — What Ken Dryden saw on the first night of the Stanley Cup playoffs is evidence that the NHL isn’t taking a suitable stance against blows delivered to the head.
As the final buzzer sounded to end Game 1 of the Western Conference quarter-final series between Detroit...
Published 1 April 2012 (All day) by Kristen Odland on Calgary Herald
Understandably, the Calgary Hitmen revealed very little on the untimely injury of their captain Cody Sylvester at the end of the season and heading into the Western Hockey League playoffs.
But, finally, the news was let out.
"I talked to the trainer and he said I could tell...
Published 30 March 2012 (All day) by Ben Kuzma on The Province
Keith Ballard was having dinner with his parents following a Feb. 7 game in Nashville and it wasn't the service, the menu or the prices that brought on sudden pain.
"I started getting these terrible headaches and it progressed to a lot more in the next few days," recalled...
Published 30 March 2012 (All day) by Iain MacIntyre on Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER — Injured Vancouver Canuck scorer Daniel Sedin should be ready for the start of the Stanley Cup playoffs in two weeks, general manager Mike Gillis confirmed Thursday.
Sedin, last season's National Hockey League scoring champion, has not played since suffering a...
Published 28 February 2012 (All day) by Bob Donnan on USA Today
The Los Angeles Lakers say star guard Kobe Bryant, the NBA's leading scorer at 28.4 points per game, has been diagnosed with a concussion as well as a broken nose after he experienced further unspecified symptoms Tuesday.
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Bryant initially saw an ear, nose and throat...
Published 3 February 2012 (All day) by Joe Nocera on The New York Times
Thirty-six years ago, Clark Booth, a young Boston journalist, went to Miami to cover Super Bowl X. Though primarily a television newsman, Booth was on assignment for The Real Paper, an alternative weekly long since closed, for which he often wrote. His plan was to interview the players about the...
Published 3 February 2012 (All day) by Willy Palov on The Chronicle Herald
Does anyone remember when Marty Frk first got injured back on Sept. 2?
He took an open-ice hit from Moncton Wildcats forward Allain Saulnier that snapped his head back and sent him spinning to the ice. The next day he told the Mooseheads he had a headache and felt "off."
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Published 3 February 2012 (All day) by Ed Pilkington on The Guardian (UK)
Experts on repetitive brain trauma suffered by players of sports such as football, ice hockey and soccer have drawn up radical new proposals designed to limit the risk of potentially fatal brain injury in child athletes.
The proposals, presented in a white paper by the Sports Legacy...
Published 7 December 2011 (All day) by Gary Kingston on Vancouver Sun
For Robbie Dixon, the weeks spent often holed-up in the dark last winter while he suffered through the after effects of a serious concussion were a good time to reflect.
The 26-year-old speed skier, a gregarious guy who had grown up on the slopes of Whistler, appeared to have all the...
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