A new bill under consideration before the California legislature may require young skiers under the age of 18 to wear safety gear like helmets while skiing or snowboarding on the ski slopes of California.
A new bill under consideration before the California legislature may require young skiers under the age of 18 to wear safety gear like helmets while skiing or snowboarding on the ski slopes of California.
A 16-year-old high school baseball player was critically injured when he suffered a traumatic brain injury on March 11, 2010. The teenage player, from Marian Catholic High School in San Francisco, CA, was hit in the head while playing a practice match against Concord, CA’s De La Salle High School.
The New York Times recently investigated the long term affect of concussions suffered by NFL players, focusing on former NFL players and their cognitive behavior. Utilizing a recent study by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research that included interviews of 1,063 former NFL players, the Times reported that 6.1 percent of former players aged 50 and older had received dementia-related diagnosis. That is five times the national average of 1.2 percent.