Sports Medicine
DALLAS - Youth football leagues are responding to warnings about the dangers of hard hits by offering new videos, coaching exams and other lessons about preventing and recognizing concussions - even though organizers believe their level of the sport is as safe as football gets.
New Orleans Saints linebacker Scott Fujita is glad to see the NFL changing its concussion policies.
Kurt Warner headed to a meeting with Arizona Cardinals medical staff and coaches before Sunday's game wrestling with the question of whether to be honest about the post-concussion symptoms he was experiencing.
NEW YORK - NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reportedly will expand restrictions on returning to games for players who sustain head trauma.
NEW YORK - NFL teams will soon be working with independent neurologists on concussion issues.
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