From the Expertsvar media release: Half way into last year’s season, 35 of 288 players in the Swedish Hockey League had already had a concussion. Researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy, who surveyed all of the players in…
From the Lifespan media release: A study led by a Hasbro Children’s Hospital sports medicine physician found that male student ice hockey players in earlier pubertal stages had a significantly increased risk of prolonged symptoms from…
From the University of Missouri press release via EurekAlert!: Sporting events can bring a community together, such as when the Louisville Cardinals won the NCAA championship and University of Louisville campus was filled with camaraderie.…
From the Michigan State University press release: College coaches who emphasize their players’ academic abilities may be the best defense against the effects of “dumb jock” stereotypes, a Michigan State University study suggests. Researchers found…
From the Georgetown University Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: A survey of current and former college athletes finds depression levels significantly higher in current athletes, a result that upended the researchers’ hypothesis. The finding…
From the University of Illinois press release: New research suggests that elite athletes – Olympic medalists in volleyball, for example – perform better than the rest of us in yet another way. These athletes excel…
From the Biomed press release via ScienceDaily: Adding movement to mental rehearsal can improve performance, finds a study in BioMed Central’s open access journal Behavioral and Brain Functions. For high jumpers the study shows that…
From the University of Exeter press release via ScienceDaily: New research shows that people can recover from poor performance when rivals comment on their failures. The research, to be published in the Journal of Experimental…
From the Oregon State University press release: A new study has concluded that sports fans love to root for a hero and against a villain, but if the game is exciting, they’ll enjoy it no…
From the University of Washington press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers have found clear, identifiable factors that signal whether an athlete will experience concussive symptoms beyond one week. The researchers sought to identify risk factors for…