More than 300,000 children under age 5 visit emergency rooms annually in the United States for concussions, with new research suggesting many face extended recovery periods. Young children are more ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) — New research says child concussions are often misdiagnosed. We know concussions are often linked to car crashes or contact sports, but concussions can happen to anyone, even ...

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia recently uncovered what they called a “leaky pipeline” of follow-up care ...

A 3-year-old boy arrived at the emergency department of Meuhedet in Ashdod unresponsive and with his eyes closed after falling and hitting his head. The ER team managed to wake him after several long ...

There's a scale called the Post-Concussion Symptom Inventory that actually has a child assessment tool as well as a parent one. And then, by using the information from a physician or clinician, as ...

Worried parents are barring Aussie kids from sport and playing in the park over concussion fears, in a move that experts say ...

About 70% of emergency department visits for sports and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) and concussions are among children ages 17 and younger! The Centers for Disease Control and ...

While concussions in football, soccer and hockey grab the headlines, a jarring fall or untimely hit to the head occur more often than you think. Even if you don’t play a sport, concussions can occur ...

York University concussion experts report that children and youth take longer to fully recover from a concussion than previously thought. After a concussion, young athletes usually rejoin their teams ...

A couple of weeks ago, eight-year-old Liam Ramsay-Leavitt of Martinez, Calif., was swinging on the monkey bars at school. "And then I just fell on my side," he says. "I was kind of dizzy and I had an ...

Graded aerobic treadmill testing is safe, tolerable, and useful in evaluating and managing cases of sports-related concussion in children and adolescents. This is the ...