Among former professional football players, a high concussion burden during their careers was associated with a greater risk of later-life hypertension.
After a series of concussions forced Chris Nowinski to abandon his professional wrestling career, he became a neuroscientist and proceeded to turn the entire world of sports on its head.
As rates of traumatic injuries and opioid abuse in children increase in Appalachia, physicians have called for standardized protocols for drug testing of pediatric trauma patients.