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As the Kansas City Chiefs prepare to take on the Philadelphia Eagles, The Conversation takes a critical look at some of the biggest news stories from the past NFL season.
Millions of sports-related concussions occur in the US every year. Many of them happen to high school and college athletes.
Brain injuries and the long-term health effects in professional sport have become significant issues in the past decade.
Our research, conducted on elite rugby players, may someday mean concussions can be diagnosed right on the pitch.
Sports medicine clinicians see benefit in using eye-tracking for concussion diagnostics, but only few of them actually work with it.
More needs to be done to manage concussions in road cycling.
It’s easy to get caught up in World Cup fever. But if watching the beautiful game inspires you to get out and play, injury prevention is vital.
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Professor of Trauma Neurosurgery, University of Birmingham
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Professor and Director, Center for Gambling Studies, Rutgers University
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Senior lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Kinesiology, Neurology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Clinical Communication, The Ohio State University
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, University of Calgary
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Director of Sport, Exercise and Physiotherapy, University of Salford
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Senior lecturer in Sport, Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, University of Central Lancashire
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PhD Researcher in Sport Sciences, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer in Neurotrauma, University of Birmingham
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E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College
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Professor and Chair of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor of Sociology, West Virginia University
