Loopholes in the Laws
I must say the New York Times, and Alan Schwarz, is ALL OVER the concussion issue. Appearing today in the Sports section he wrote about the Lystedt Law, in Washington state. The law was enacted to...
View ArticleALS and Concussions
A research study delved into the association of ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease and head injury, more specific brain trauma. Boston University and the VA published such information in Journal of...
View ArticleHelmets Protect for Concussion, WRONG.
Once again Alan Schwarz has published a VERY, VERY good article pertaining to concussions. In this article in the New York Times he has looked at the outdated helmet standards by NOCSAE. That...
View ArticleNOCSAE Changes?
Since the early 70′s football helmet standards have remained the same. When NOCSAE (the helmet certifying group) began, the number one issue was skull fractures, so they set up standards to prevent...
View ArticleCollecting Information
Fred Mueller has been running the National Center for Catastrophic Injury Research in North Carolina for three decades, as Alan Schwarz writes on Ocala.com. Finding information about injuries has...
View ArticleAlan Schwarz: Helmets
The most profound writer about the head injury issue in sports is by far this man, Alan Schwarz. I posted yesterday about the AP story from New York about the meeting of NFL minds addressing helmets...
View ArticleNOCSAE; Alan Schwarz Follow Up
As we mentioned going into the Winter Board Meetings of NOCSAE, renowned reporter on head injuries, Alan Schwarz of the New York Times, was in attendance. Yesterday we posted parts of the press...
View ArticleCongrats Alan Schwarz
Alan Schwarz of the New York Times is a Pulitzer Finalist for Public Service in Journalism. We here at The Concussion Blog thank him for his work; his writing has been top-notch and ahead of the...
View ArticlePioneer Moving On
There is one person in the media that can be classified as the pioneer of “concussion coverage”, his name is Alan Schwarz. Since roughly the mid-2000′s Schwarz has been on the beat of national stories...
View ArticleHead Game Movie Providing Head Scratching Already: UPDATE
UPDATE BELOW Irv Muchnick has been using his investigative nature to find out about the new movie “Head Games” based on the Chris Nowinski book and history. Although the use of alternate media is a...
View ArticleGridiron Heroes and the Movie
Being part of the concussion space there are many different things that come to my inbox. Much of that is garbage and thinly veiled attempts at advertising for something that I am not interested in. A...
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