The Healing Power of Endocannabinoids: The Brain’s Secret Weapon
Have you ever wondered if your brain has its own version of cannabis? Well it does! Your body naturally produces chemicals that work like the active ingredients...
Tag: Traumatic Brain Injury
Football: The Epidemic Hidden Beneath the Helmet
You dive for the ball, just barely have it in your hands, when you collide head-first with the player from the other team! You pick yourself up off the ground, ...
AI: The Game Changer in Concussion Diagnosis
Concussions are one of the most common yet misunderstood brain injuries. And they don’t just affect professional athletes—students, military personnel, and ever...
The Surprising Connection Between Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and the Menstrual Cycle
How is Traumatic Brain Injury Classified? Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) occurs when there is a sudden injury to the head, such as a concussion, resulting in dama...
The Invisible Injury
Every sport has common injuries. Gymnastics has wrist and back problems , football had ACL tears, basketballs has sprained ankles. Of course those injuries ove...
To Play or Not To Play?
Concussions are a tricky subject in sports. On the one hand, there are risks in just about anything one does: a car accident is possible when making a short tri...
Discussion on Concussion
Many people associate concussions with football and boxing, but the reality is, concussions affect between 1.6 to 3.8 million athletes yearly in a variety of co...
Concussions and Checking in Hockey
We have all heard of concussions. Someone hits their head and in our culture generally we think or tell people to “shake it off”, but is that really...
Concussion recovery time varies on individual basis
Concussion is a common accident experienced by people of all ages. It can be a result of a fall, a hit to the head or any type of traumatic brain injury. Sports...