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Several North American leaders in hockey have joined to create the Hockey Safety Panel in an effort to strengthen communication surrounding safety issues, including concussion awareness and neck injury prevention, according to a Bauer Hockey news release.

Ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction with the subcutaneous ulnar nerve transposition is an effective procedure to correct elbow instability in athletes and often returns the athlete to the same level of performance or higher than they were prior to surgery in…

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Sports Health, an American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine publication, says that NFL players with concussions are sidelined longer than they were in the 1990s and early 2000s, according a redOrbit report.

The recent debate among athletes, athletic trainers and sports medicine physicians focuses on concussion awareness. Here are 10 stories about the trend towards concussion awareness and brain injury prevention.

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