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

Sports are one of the few spaces in American society genuinely guided by ideas of fairness and meritocracy. But AAU ...

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

Meiko Locksley, one of 152 athletes diagnosed with CTE before even reaching the age of 30 as part of the Boston University ...

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 ...

More than 27 million youth ages 6-17 participate in sports in our country, and I typically see three types of foot and ankle injuries in young athletes: injuries related to growth, trauma and overuse.

What is the force of a hit to the head your kid sees on the field? How are helmets tested to absorb them? The Virginia Tech ...

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 ...

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 ...