Vital Signs: Hazards: Football Head Injuries, Not So Cut and Dried
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Researchers have found that there is no way to know for sure which blows will lead to a concussion.
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NEW YORK  - High school football players   may run a lower risk of sustaining a head injury if their   helmets are fitted by certified athletic trainers rather than   coaches or other individuals, new study findings suggest.
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As bruising and violent as most Sundays are around the NFL, it's hard to top last week's for physical pain.
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Football&#39;s offside rule is too complex for the human brain and eye to process accurately, according to new research which should give comfort to referees and linesmen who come under fire from armchair critics.
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Athletes with a history of concussion are at risk of suffering lasting symptoms the next time they take a blow to the head, according to a study published Monday.
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Head injuries usually come down to a judgment call and, inevitably, bad judgments are made. Itâs time for a new approach.
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It's that time of year: Kids hit the sports fields running, and often hobble back off. Back to school means back to organized sports for more than 30 million children and teenagers &#151; and roughly 2.5 million emergency-room visits during the year for resulting injuries.
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A new, high-tech helmet tracks the severity of on-field hits in real time. But its potential benefit all depends on who's wearing it
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The NFL's stance on the health of players was under the spotlight on Friday after linebacker Ted Johnson, who helped the New England Patriots to three Super Bowl titles, said that a series of concussions had impaired him.
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Brian Russell had no idea what hit him. A guy who routinely tackles 250-pound running backs head-on and occasionally gets pulverized by rampaging 350-pound NFL linemen for a living nearly saw his season end because of a microscopic germ. The Cleveland Browns safety was flattened by a staph infection that hospitalized him during the preseason.
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The sound contradicted the image. Sure, Paul Atallah was watching a football game on TV, and sure, it was 1 o'clock in the morning, when the senses can get mischievous. But the thuds he was hearing didn't match the action he was seeing. Even the most ferocious tackle doesn't echo like that; as a longtime football player, Atallah knew that ...
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Heading a modern-day football is not significantly safer than an old-style leather ball, ballistics experts find.
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Turf burns, the scrapes caused by  playing on artificial turf, probably helped spread a stubborn  skin infection among St. Louis Rams football players during the  2003 NFL season, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Physical play and a bruising running attack have been staples of the Hingham football team this season. Generally a smashmouth attack is not a recipe for a quick-strike offense.
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Sport: Doctor who treated players injured in air crash reveals staff feared even more casualities
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Scientists develop an electronic device to test for serious head injuries.
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The trauma center's radio crackles an alert: A 34-year-old woman injured in an auto wreck is being brought in by helicopter. Parts of her scalp have been torn back, exposing her skull. Broken bones may be sticking out through the skin of her left leg. Her injuries may help save the lives of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.