Discover essential information about youth sports injuries, including tips for parents on prevention and recovery.

Young athletes (ages 6–14) in tackle football experience vastly more head impacts — up to 15 times more — and 23 times more ...

After killing four and taking his own life, Shane Tamura — a former football player at two L.A.-area high schools — left ...

CTE stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and repeated head injuries are likely the cause of it, according to the Mayo Clinic. CTE permanently destroys nerve cells in the brain, worsens over ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Over 3.5 million youth sports injuries occur each year requiring medical treatment for children under the age of 14. The CDC is describing it as an epidemic.

On a typical day in training, Riverhounds SC midfielder Robbie Mertz was standing away from the play when an errant ball came out of nowhere and hit him in ...

As the Supreme Court agrees to review two state bans on transgender women and girls in sports, a parent, educator and soccer ...

The quest of youth pitchers to emulate their heroes, such as Justin Verlander and Jacob deGrom, has caused them to need the ...

Local parents are worried that damage caused by the U.S. Open could cast a shadow over the fall sports season.

It began as a national health crisis for America's most popular sport and eventually reached its way to the beginning levels of youth contact sports. It spawned an avalanche ...

A Washington state law enacted in 2009 is credited with significantly reducing the recurrent concussion rate in youth sports.