Katelyn M. Ward, MS, ATC, is 2025 recipient of NATA Research & Education Foundation ‘Free Communications – Early-Career ...

In 2015, the USSF banned the use of the head to impact the ball in athletes younger than 10 years old. The header ban also ...

Headers have long been associated with concussion risk, so in 2016, the U.S. Soccer Federation banned headers in athletes ...

With lots of students participating in sports, concussion awareness is incredibly important for athletes, coaches and parents ...

On any given day, nearly 20% of patients seen by the Sports Medicine team at Children's Hospital Los Angeles are children ...

By comparison, concussions represented about 8% of soccer-related injuries in boys and nearly 11% in girls in 2012. "Now that ...

When a player gets hurt playing any sport, athletic trainers are often the first medical professionals to respond. "It's important to understand when concussions and other injuries are happening ...

Concussion damage could linger in an athlete's brain for at least a year, long after they've rejoined their sport, a new study says. Concussed college athletes had brain changes that remained ...

By comparison, concussions represented about 8% of soccer-related injuries in boys and nearly 11% in girls in 2012. "Now that physicians, athletic trainers, coaches and parents understand the long ...

By comparison, concussions represented about 8% of soccer-related injuries in boys and nearly 11% in girls in 2012. “Now that physicians, athletic trainers, coaches and parents understand the ...