Youth Sports Concussion Safety Center

Concussion Book Reviews

Kids, Sports, and Concussion - A Guide for Coaches and Parents (Praeger 2011), by William P. Meehan, III, M.D. [14]

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Ahead of the Game: The Parents' Guide to Youth Sports Concussion (University Press of New England 2012) by Rosemarie Scolaro Moser, Ph.D. [16]

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READ FULL REVIEW [17]

The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic by Linda Carroll and David Rosner (Simon & Schuster 2011).

READ FULL REVIEW [18]

The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic by Linda Carroll and David Rosner (Simon & Schuster 2011).

Throwaway Players: The Concussion Crisis From Pee Wee Football to the NFL (Behler Publications 2011) by Gay Culverhouse

READ FULL REVIEW [19]

Concussions and Our Kids: America's Leading Expert on How to Protect Young Athletes and Keep Sports Safe. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012), by Robert Cantu, MD and Mark Hyman.

READ FULL REVIEW [20]

The "Pioneer" in Youth Sports Concussion Safety Education

Praise for MomsTeam

"Brooke de Lench and MomsTeam [21] are the Pioneers in Youth Sports Concussion Information and Education - they began the conversation in 2000 and do a wonderful job."

Robert Cantu, MD, Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at Boston University School of Medicine, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Chairman Department of Surgery, Chief Neurosurgery Service, Director Service Sports Medicine at Emerson Hospital.

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"I think your web site is about the best I have seen."

Arthur C. Maerlender, Ph.D., Director, Pediatric Neuropsychological Services, Assistant Professor Dept. of Psychiatry Dartmouth Medical School – DHMC

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"I tell all of my patients and parents to go to the MomsTeam.com concussion safety channel for all of their information. There is no one better at providing concussion information for sports parents."

Stuart Glassman, MD, Concord, NH

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"Brooke de Lench, Founder of MomsTeam.com, is a beacon for those of us working to change the landscape of today's youth sport environment. At a time when our nation faces increasing problems related to obesity and lack of physical activity, we have evolved a youth sport scene which is both irrational and exclusionary. Ms. de Lench has dedicated herself to changing this myopic way of treating our children."

Paul Bearmon, M.D. Emergency Room Physician

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"I can't tell you the number of positive comments I receive about MomsTeam. I've recommended it when giving lectures and linked it to the MIMA Sports Medicine website. It is unmatched in its field."

Bruce Thomas, M.D., Medical Director of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, Assistant Professor, Florida State University School of Medicine and the University Of Central Florida School Of Medicine.

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Brooke de Lench and her organization were one of the first ones that came to my mind as a speaker for our event. Your knowledge and experience are exactly what we are looking for to help educate our community on sports concussions.

Bethany Bounds
Marketing/Admissions Coordinator
CORE Health Care
Dallas, TX

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"Already, because of Brooke de Lench's inspiration and dedication, a powerful movement of mothers dedicated to improving youth sports has taken form."

Eli H. Newberger, M.D., Harvard Medical School, Founder, Child Protection Team and Family Development Program, Children's Hospital in Boston.

Expert Tip

Many Factors In Return to Play Decision [22]
Factors which may help determine the amount of time an athlete is asked to remain symptom free before returning to contact or collision sports include:

>>the length of time over which the athlete had symptoms from the concussion

>>the length of time it took for the athlete to recover his or her brain function after the concussion

>>the length of time it took for the athlete to recover his or her balance after the concussion

>>the amount of brain dysfunction associated with the athlete's concussion

>>the intensity of symptoms suffered by the athlete after the concussion

>>the number of concussions the athlete has sustained over his or her lifetime

>>the amount of time that elapsed in between the athlete's concussions

>>the amount of force that was required to produce concussive brain injury in the athlete

>>whether or not the amount of force required to produce a concussion in the athlete has changed over time.
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Featured Blogs & Forums

Concussion center logo Welcome to the MomsTeam concussion safety center! We first began providing comprehensive concussion safety information to youth sports parents, coaches and athletic trainers in 2001. Since the beginning we have been considered the "pioneer" in concussion safety education [35].

Twelve years later, not only sports parents but medical professionals around the world turn to us for concussion information, and the MomsTeam Concussion Safety Center has grown to be the largest, most comprehensive library of concussion safety information on the Internet. Our team of sports concussion experts, editors, writers, researchers, and videographers are constantly adding to and updating a content catalog of more than two hundreds articles and videos to reflect the enormous advances that have occurred in the 2000's in concussion identification, evaluation, and management.

Here you will find articles about how innovative new smart phone applications and tests are being used to identify possible concussion for early assessment on the sports sideline to reports on the latest research about the long-term effects of concussion on an athlete's cognitive function, from articles on the new state concussion safety laws to advice on the academic accomodations concussed student-athletes often need when they return to the classroom.

MomsTeam Health and Safety editors and writers, along with our experts, including Dr. William P. Meehan, III, Director of the Sports Concussion Center at Children's Hospital Boston, and Rosemarie Scolaro Moser, Ph.D., one of the leading sports concussion neuropsychologists in the country and Director of the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, continue to provide advice, support, articles, videos and blogs on the latest in concussion management and the dangers of traumatic brain injury.

Our mission now, as it was in 2000, is to do everything we can to minimize the short- and long-term risks that concussions, if not properly managed, pose to athlete, and to provide objective and practical concussion information to parents, coaches, and athletic trainers that reflects the latest consensus of medical experts and advances in research and technology, all in the direct, concise, easy-to-read, practical format that has always been MomsTeam's hallmark.

Brooke de Lench

Founder and Publisher, MomsTeam.com

Concussion Books

Looking for a book on sports concussions? We've got reviews! [36]

Featured Articles

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Stronger Necks May Reduce Concussion Risk: Study [38]

A growing number of concussion experts, strength and conditioning trainers, and physical therapists believe that one important way the risk of sport-related concussion can be reduced is to strengthen the neck, the theory being that stronger neck muscles will help cushion against the forces that cause concussion.

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King-Devick: New Screening Tool May Dramatically Improve Concussion Detection Rate on Sports Sideline [39]

A new study provides additional evidence that the King-Devick Test, a simple two-minute test of rapid eye movement, is an accurate "remove-from-play" sideline concussion assessment tool which can accurately identify athletes with concussion, even when they neither display obvious concussion signs nor report any symptoms.

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High Concussion Rate in Boys' Lacrosse Blamed On Intentional Head-to-Head Contact, Lax Rules Enforcement [40]

Lacrosse may be the fastest-growing high school boy's sport in the United States, but only football and ice hockey have higher concussion rates. A new study pinpoints the possible culprit: widespread and intentional use of helmets during player-to-player contact, often to defenseless players, and usually without a penalty being called.

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Athletes' Resistance To Self-Reporting of Concussion Continues Despite Increased Education [41]

Athletes continue to underreport concussion even when they know the signs and symptoms, finds a new study, suggesting that efforts to break the code of silence which pervades contact sports, and change the attitudes of athletes towards reporting concussion, don't appear to be working.

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Sandbagging A Baseline Test: Much Harder Than One Might Think [42]

Outsmarting or "sandbagging" a baseline neuropsychological test is much harder than an athlete may think, say two recent studies, because they are programmed to automatically "flag" test protocols that seem suspicious.

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