MINNEAPOLIS — The NFL will have four independent concussion specialists on hand for Super Bowl LII, the result of multiple changes to its protocol over the course of the 2017 season. The first iteration of the NFL’s current policy, established in 2014, placed one unaffiliated neurological consultant — known as a “UNC” — on each […]
If the NFL is serious about caring for potentially concussed players, why doesn’t it remove ultimate return-to-play decision-making from the team’s doctor, and so empower the unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant assigned to every sideline? Critics of the NFL’s sincerity in concussion management often ask this. And indeed, it would seem to make the most sense, as […]
(Neal ElAttrache is Head Team Physician for the Los Angeles Rams and is a voting member of the NFL Physicians Society) Was it the avocado ice cream? The electrolytes? The gallons of water he consumes daily? Nope. It was the tape, a big hunk of black tape, that helped Tom Brady play in the AFC […]
(Dr. Muntz is a team internist for the Houston Texans and serves on the board of the NFL Physicians Society) Alonzo Powell cannot wait to be a Giant. He grew up in the foggy Ingleside neighborhood of San Francisco. He played ball at Lincoln High, and stood in the patchy grass one day when Barry […]
(Dr. James Bradley is a former President of the NFL Physicians Society and current Head Team Physician for the Pittsburgh Steelers.) While details of Carson Wentz’s knee operation and its aftermath remain a mystery, shrouded by HIPAA restrictions as well as by the NFL’s obsession for secrecy, his surgeon’s identity makes it likely no cutting-edge […]
(Dr. Muntz is a team internist for the Houston Texans and serves on the board of the NFL Physicians Society.) With nearly one million revelers joyously drinking in their team’s first championship, the Astros’ World Series victory parade had wended through the sun-baked streets of downtown Houston to City Hall, where the next phase of […]
By BARRY WILNER — Oct. 19, 2017 1:27 PM EDT NEW YORK (AP) — A player gets hurt on the field, walks or is helped to the sideline, and then goes camping? Not exactly. Those blue tents fans see popping up near the bench area at NFL games are for medical purposes only. And get this: The pro […]
Power Player of the Week: Dr. Robin West, head of Inova Sports Medicine in Virginia September 17, 2017 – 3:34 – Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Power Player Plus: Dr. Robin West The team doctor for the Redskins and Nationals on how much of recovery is physical vs. mental. Sep. 17, 2017 – […]
A follow-up physical on New Orleans Saints long snapper Jon Dorenbos may have saved the 37-year-old’s life. Dorenbos was diagnosed with an aortic aneurysm that will require immediate open-heart surgery. New Orleans traded a seventh-round pick in 2019 to Philadelphia for the 15-year veteran last week, and Dr. John Amoss was going through the long […]
INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) – Every play of every NFL game is full of collisions, and the potential for concussions. The National Football League is watching players on the field closely for signs and symptoms of brain injuries. At least four trained medical staff have their eyes keenly focused on the action, watching from the sideline and […]