Boyle practiced Friday, his first turn on the ice since the concussion-inducing hit from Ottawa's Chris Neil.
In another sobering article by Allen Maki of The Toronto Globe and Mail, the family of Rick Rypien, an N.H.L. enforcer who committed suicide last year in the string of tragic deaths that rocked the league, is emphatic about not connecting the dots between Rypien's concussion-inducing job as a fighter and his suicide.
Just this month, researchers announced that the results of a new study "raise concern that repetitive neurotrauma, independent of concussion, may induce early CTE brain pathologies, even in teenagers and young adults" (emphasis mine).
A sequence of such slaps can induce cultural concussion".
The impact gave him whiplash, which induced a concussion.
We defined a concussion as a traumatically induced, transient disturbance of brain function involving a complex pathophysiological process in this study (Harmon et al. 2013).
A concussion is a mTBI induced by an impulsive force transmitted to the head resulting from a direct or indirect impact to the head, face, neck, or elsewhere [ 21, 22].
A concussion is an alteration in mental status induced by trauma, which may or may not involve loss of consciousness.
On Monday, Mr. Kashin remained in a medically induced coma at a Moscow hospital with a concussion, a broken jaw, fractures in both legs and broken fingers.
The journalist, Oleg Kashin, 30, is in a medically induced coma in a Moscow hospital with a concussion, a broken jaw, fractures in both legs and broken fingers, the newspaper reported Saturday.
Dr. Robert Stern, a professor of neurology at Boston University and one of the leading researchers in head injuries, describes a concussion in a paper as "an alteration in brain function induced by biomechanical forces".
