For some athletes, reconstruction and recovery is more important than just jumping right into surgery.
Parents often ask how soon is too soon to start strength training for their young children. However, children should be asking if their elderly parents when it's too late to start strength training.
10 years after the attack at the Boston Marathon, the blasts still echo for former Highland resident Beth Roche.
Chicago Blackhawks star Jonathan Toews returned to the lineup last week still not feeling 100% after suffering from “chronic immune response syndrome.” Could this be his final season?
As for returning to play a field position or just hit, one would expect a quicker recovery from Tommy John because the stress on the re-built ligament is far less for such players than it is for pitchers
David Bazett-Jones' presentation at trainer's conference highlighted misconceptions about running injuries.
Kansas missed its coach in its NCAA Tournament loss, but his long-term health was more important.
Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa finally received some good news last week. It was about time, considering the string of disabling concussions he suffered during the 2022 NFL season.
As the month of March began, head trauma in football was in the headlines. The family of Irv Cross revealed that the NFL player and broadcaster had been diagnosed post-mortem with stage 4 CTE.
Last week, the Chicago Bulls announced that, for the second year in a row, Lonzo Ball is being shut down for the remainder of the season – without having played at all this time around.
Every athletic team or program at every level of sport should not only have a venue-specific emergency practice plan, but it should be practiced regularly.
The NFL is doing victory laps on how it handled the Damar Hamlin injury. But left undiscussed is what NFL medics encounter far more and all too often in games and practices, concussion.
Purchasing automated external defibrillator (AED) for the athletic departments across Indiana could save lives, and costly lawsuits.
Perhaps we should consider the nature of injuries in a sport where adults are able to participate, even into old age.
Perhaps we should consider the nature of injuries in a sport where adults are able to participate, even into old age.
Former NFL strength and conditioning coach Ken Croner, now with Fitness Pointe in Munster, said, “When you use exercise as punishment, you lessen its value.”
Regardless of the cause of SCA, a team of physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals are prepared in local emergency rooms to combat the cascade of its effects.
Damar Hamlin went into sudden cardiac arrest on Monday night. According to a study the save rate for witnessed cases of SCA among young athletes, regardless of cause, is 89% when an AED is onsite and used.
We often have the right policies in place, but don't act on them.
We often have the right policies in place, but don't act on them.
Could a more thorough exam have saved Grant Wahl's life?
In the spirit of the season, and to honor the memory of either or both of Joe Willis and Paul Danko, donate to scholarships founded in their names.
School administrators should understand that requiring coaches to take safety courses is not enough.
The ink used to print last Tuesday's column on concussion and head trauma was barely dry when a Los Angeles jury came back with a landmark decision on the same subject.
Wisconsin football is finalizing a contract to hire Luke Fickell as its 31st football coach in program history. Here's a look back at Fickell's career as a player and coach.
Wisconsin squandered an opportunity at the end of a 23-16 loss to Minnesota in the battle for Paul Bunyan's Axe.