by Margo Trott Collins
on January 28, 2025
With Super Bowl LIX on the horizon, Mid-Atlantic Concussion (MAC) Alliance’s medical director and president, Vincent Schaller, MD, DABFM, CIC, recently penned a LinkedIn article on his thoughts about the state of concussions in the NFL, and in organized football on all levels of play. The article, “Super Bowl LIX Musing of a Concussion Doctor”
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by Margo Trott Collins
on July 18, 2024
By guest blogger Dr. Abby Baldwin, PT, DPT, OCS, SCS, COMT, ITPT, GCS, AIB-VR THE ACL CRISIS: It’s all in your head. New research shows that concussions could be antecedents of ACL tears in contact sports. Can it be prevented? It’s almost a weekly headline for a women’s basketball or soccer player to announce an
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by Margo Trott Collins
on September 1, 2021
When we discuss school athletes at risk for concussions, the first sports that usually come to mind are high-impact ones—especially football. In a 2020 study from the Michigan-based Henry Ford Health System’s Sports Medicine Research team, records of 357 high school athletes who sustained concussions between ages 14 to 18 were studied between 2013 and
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