Head Injury

A recent study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine concluded that position players in major league baseball who sustain concussions suffer statistically measurable dips in hitting statistics.

Recently, on my son’s 12th birthday, I took him to Bucks Fit in Bucks County to take a 20 minute test of his baseline cognitive functioning called the ImPACT test. What is an ImPACT test?  This test is intended to [ Read More ]

In my last blog, “14 Signs of a Concussion and Why Youth Baseball Needs Guidelines”, I introduced you to Johnny and the dilemma faced by his coach.  Johnny, the shortstop, had suffered a collision with a teammate in a playoff [ Read More ]

We are turning the bend in the winter season and that means that pitchers and catchers will soon be reporting to Spring Training.  Shortly, youth baseball coaches all over the country will be preparing for another season.

Thomas Edison asserted that “the chief function of the body was to carry the brain around.”  It is imperative that an injury to the brain is not missed or discounted. Recently, AnthroTronix received FDA clearance to bring to market its [ Read More ]

When a motorcyclist is involved in an accident, the injuries are almost always severe and life altering.  Each year in Pennsylvania there is approximately 4,000 accidents involving motorcycles and approximately 98% of the bikers involved will be injured; 5% will [ Read More ]

Often times when I first meet a client who has been harmed by the careless acts of another, I am lucky to hear: “I’m not the kind of person who does this kind of thing.”  Obviously, this “thing” is the [ Read More ]

Trial lawyers take note: No two brain injuries are the same. The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine defines mild traumatic brain injury as the traumatically induced physiologic disruption of brain function. This may manifest as any alteration in mental state [ Read More ]