Being able to recognize the causes and symptoms of a concussion is important so you can reduce the risk of getting one.

New children’s concussion guidelines from the U.S. government recommend against routine X-rays and blood tests for diagnosis and reassure parents that most kids’ symptoms clear up within one ...

Guidelines for how to treat concussions in children are changing as doctors learn more about how young brains heal. It's something that Morgan Baird found out firsthand. The fifth-grader isn't ...

With sports comes injuries, and some children can be at higher risk if they don’t get a sports physical before playing. Now ...

While most children who suffer a concussion fully recover with time, there can be a lingering impact for some. The new research is highlighting the importance of taking concussions seriously.

Would you be able to spot if your child had a life-threatening head injury? Paediatric Emergency Consultant Dr Ana Alcock is ...

The number more than doubled to 4,967 in 2010. In 2001, about 25 percent of the children were hospitalized for concussion treatment, versus only about 9 percent of kids in 2010.

Every year, thousands of American children either die or become severely disabled due to traumatic brain injury, according to the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

A study was undertaken to determine the degree to which paediatric neurosurgeons agreed on the optimum management of sport related concussion in children. At the present time, a paradigm for ...

The figure is alarming: The number of children 19 and younger coming to hospital emergency rooms with concussions rose 63 percent in the past decade, from 153,000 in 2001 to 250,000 in 2009.

Objective Identify risk for adverse outcomes in school performance and attendance following concussion. Design Correlational. Setting Outpatient clinic, teaching hospital. Participants 216 children ...

More than 200,000 concussions or head injuries were treated in emergency rooms, or 7 percent of injuries. The rate jumped to almost 30 per 10,000 people in 2013 from just under 2 per 10,000 ...