Concussion: A National Challenge

07/06/2015

06/23/2015

REMINDER: join us for a wine and cheese reception 6-7:30pm at CSU- no sign up necessary. Buses will loop from the Global Center to/from CSU.

06/23/2015

Volunteers are working hard, guests are checking in, and everyone is looking forward to Concussion 2015!

06/22/2015

DYK: From 2001 to 2009, the rate of ED visits for sports and recreation-related injuries with a diagnosis of concussion or TBI, alone or in combination with other injuries rose 57 percent among children (age 19 or younger). -Source: CDC

06/22/2015

Check out this concussion in sports infographic from the CDC.

06/22/2015

Can't make the concussion program during the day? Join us for the wine and cheese reception 6/23 from 6:00-7:30 at Cleveland State University and talk with the experts. Details at www.concussion2015.org.

"It has become clear that repetitive brain injury, even at relatively low energy levels, is a source of brain trauma that faces our youth, men and women, and elderly - from playing sports, to automobile collisions or falls, to the battlefield - there is a critical need to prevent and detect the neur…

06/22/2015

Not sure how to get to the Global Center for Health Innovation? We've got directions and parking insight that you'll need.

(Note: The Ontario Street exit ramp from I-71 north/ I-90 east will be closed due to construction from fall 2013 through summer 2016. The directions are based on the Ontario Street ramp construction closure.)

06/19/2015

Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, Raul Radovitzky, PhD, will present on the "Animal-to-Human Scaling of Stress Waves in the Intracranial Cavity" during the BioMechanics of the Concussive Impact session, Tuesday, June 23rd.

06/19/2015

Get insight re: TBI Clinical Trials from Col. Dallas Hack, MD, MPH, Senior Medical Advisor to the Principal Assistant for Research and Technology, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. Tuesday, June 23rd at Concussion 2015.

06/19/2015

podcast--listen now: http://weol.northcoastnow.com/audio/weol/061815DrHunterPeckhamConcussionDiscussion.mp3

06/18/2015

Clevelanders support the cause!

06/18/2015

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