Brain Injury Law Blog : Head Injury : Coma : Personal Injury : Las Vegas Nevada Lawyer & Attorney Tim Titolo

The Center for Disease Control, with the support of the National Football League, has created a FREE program online for health care professionals.  The course teaches what these professionals need to know about concussion among young athletes.  The intent to is educate professionals in recognizing, diagnosing and treating head injures from sports activities.  This important information has become a hot button issue in primary and secondary education as well as in professional sports.

An overview of the course content is to:

• Examine current research on what may be happening to the brain after a concussion
• Understand why young people are at increased risk
• Explore acute concussion assessment and individualized management of young athletes to help prepare for diagnosing and managing concussions
• Learn about the 5-Step Return to Play progression and helping athletes safely return to school and play
• Focus on prevention and preparedness to help keep athletes safe season-to-season
• Receive continuing education credits through the American College of Sports Medicine

To view the course or for more information, visit: www.cdc.gov/Concussion.

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Since I received a flurry of comments on my Motorcycle Helmet Blog of recent, see Nevada Helmet Law Repeal and comments at http://brainandspine.titololawoffice.com/2011/05/articles/brain-injury/nevada-helmet-law-repeal/ , I thought I would forward a tweet by fellow blogger Steve Gursten.  Steve is a great Michigan Personal Injury Trial Attorney.

The title of the article EDITORIAL: Helmet law repeal is a horrible idea  is http://theoaklandpress.com/articles/2011/06/09/opinion/doc4df0f7e007da2700519623.txt?viewmode=default

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Half of all TBIs are due to transportation accidents involving automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians. These accidents are the major cause of TBI in people under age 75.

For those 75 and older, falls cause the majority of TBIs.

Approximately 20% of TBIs are due to violence, such as firearm assaults and child abuse, and about 3% are due to sports injuries. Fully half of TBI incidents involve alcohol use.

Traumatic brain injury is a frequent cause of major long-term disability in individuals surviving head injuries sustained in war zones. This is becoming an issue of growing concern in modern warfare in which rapid deployment of acute interventions are effective in saving the lives of combatants with significant head injuries. Traumatic brain injury has been identified as the "signature injury" among wounded soldiers of the current military engagement in Iraq (see: Iraq war's signature wound: Brain injury).
 

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