Tampa Bay’s NPR recently interviewed our director, Dr. Gillian Hotz, about the questionable effectiveness of headband use in Florida high school girl’s lacrosse: “No helmet prevents concussion,” Hotz said. “It’s acceleration-deceleration. It’s a back and forth [motion]. So  these cap-like helmet covers, that they’re thinking of for the women’s lacrosse,  I just don’t think they’ll be effective […]

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The KiDZ Neuroscience Center and UConcussion Program teams would like to extend a huge “Thank you!” to Gulliver Schools for their yearly “Make a Splash” Swim-A-Mile fundraising and donation to the UConcussion program for continued concussion research. Frank Steel, Gulliver’s Head of Schools, introduced their top fundraiser, Luca Patterson; a 2nd Grade student. Student chairs, Pablo and Nicole, presented the check to […]

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Earlier this week, IndyCar announced the University of Miami’s clearing of F1 racer Will Power to return to the 2016 IndyCar series. Power, who failed SCAT (Sports Concussion Assessment Tool) tests earlier this week, was cleared after ImPACT testing at the UConcussion facilities at UHealth Sports Medicine. Read more at AutoWeek: http://autoweek.com/article/indycar/indycar-driver-will-power-does-not-have-concussion

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(1/17/16) Today’s Sunday Herald features a two-page spread on the issue, research, and prevention of youth concussions from the University of Miami concussion clinic team and UConcussion. “UM and the country’s fourth-largest public school system work together to catalog and treat concussions in every public high school and for every sport — an undertaking that is one […]

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