Women’s increased participation in high-impact sports is often seen as cause for celebration – but this progress comes with costs to brain health
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New guidelines from the Australian Institute of Sport recommend players in youth and community sport are sidelined for three weeks after a concussion. Here’s why.
Rugby players risk serious injury due to the game’s sheer physicality. Sports scientists have worked with international rugby bodies to improve safety.
Young or old, men or women. All can be at risk of concussion while playing contact sport. Here’s what we know happens in the brain.
Many children play compulsory rugby at school – but the risk of injury is too high.
Older people with COVID are at higher risk of a new Alzheimer’s diagnosis within a year of testing positive. Vaccination against viral infection remains one of several important preventative measures.
Because some seizures are relatively subtle, they can go unrecognized, leading to a delay in diagnosis.
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Winchester
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor, Research Centre for Hauora and Health, Massey University
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Social Scientist, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport, Nottingham Trent University
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Research Fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, and The Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, Curtin University
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Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Professor of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Exercise Science, University of South Australia
