Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts

Monday, June 15, 2015

Monday, May 6, 2013

Concussion Clinics Increase With Added Attention And Uncertainty

A New Way To Care For Young Brains by Bill Pennington.  The New York Times.  May 5, 2013.

Specialized youth sports concussion clinics are rapidly increasing in number.

(1)  The are ( no, some, or clear) established formulas for treating concussions.

(2)  ____ states have passed laws requiring that school-age athletes who have sustained a consussion to _____________________________________________.

(3)  According to an expert quoted in the article   _____% of all concussions are resolved in a _______.

(4)  Concussion treatment has become a mix of practices derived from _________________________
____________________________________.

(5)  There are (no, several, many) tests to verify a concussion.

(6)  The best medicine given by concussion doctors may be ______________________________
____________________________

(7)  One of the main differences between a typical youth concussion and Junior Seau is ________
__________________________________.

(8)  According to an expert quoted in the article a concussion may be unique for young people in that ___________________________________________.

(9)  True or False.  Recovery from concussion is easy to predict with charts available to help medical professionals to judge.

(10)  What is one of the most widely accepted tenets of concussion recovery?

(11)  Define "cognitive rest"and the neurocognitive baseline test.  Discuss the pros and cons of these approaches.

(12)  Is a neurocognitive baseline a concussion test?  What is the purpose of that test?

(13)  Discuss family conflict in the diagnosis of concussion?

(14)  How do concussion clinics articulate the hospital business models?

(15)  An expert quoted in the article call this "the worst thing they can do."  What was he referring to

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Sports Injury and Team Psychology

Article:  When a Severe Injury Shakes a Team to Its Heart  Sports New York Times  Sunday September 23, 2012

Key Ideas:  When a sever injury happens to a sports team member, the entire team feels the impact.  The drive to press on, concern about the injured teammate, loss of focus, and worries of personal vulnerability and just some of the reactions.  The article includes a dramatic story of the psychological effects on a team member serving as a mold for a body cast for a injured and paralyzed teammate.  It was for that team member a "glimpse of a life he did not want to know."