Once a person falls, things usually go downhill; it’s one of the leading causes of people going to the emergency department,” said Lisa Williams, a physical therapist with Midland Health. Falls are ...

Preventable injuries and deaths kill more Americans in the first half of life than any other cause, including cancer. Yet the ...

Objective To examine prevention strategies and potential modifiable risk factors (MRFs) for sport-related concussion (SRC) and head impact/head acceleration event (HAE) outcomes in female, woman ...

Suffering a head injury could raise the risk of developing a brain tumour later in life, concerning research today suggested. Age, being overweight or obese and exposure to certain types of radiation ...

As you age, your risk of this type of brain injury goes up. That’s why it’s important to know the signs and the best ways to ...

"Nationwide we estimate about 68,000 annual emergency department visits for pediatric poisoning for children under the age of ...

Objective To describe the proposed biomedical effect mechanisms in research on exercise-based injury prevention programmes in football (soccer) and handball. Design Scoping review of randomised ...

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are linked to new cases of dementia, use of home care services and admission to long-term care, according to an October study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical ...

HealthDay News — Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is more common in people who experience extensive repetitive head impacts (RHI), according to a study published online Oct. 18 in the Journal of ...