Here are four things to know:
1. Physicians at UBMD Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine will use the grant to study concussions, focusing on how they affect both the body and brain.
2. Approximately 90 teenagers who play a sport are being recruited for the study.
3. The researchers will also be testing the use of low-level exercise, which they developed, to help concussed athletes recover.
4. John Leddy, MD, professor of orthopedics and sports medicine at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB and director of the UB Concussion Management Clinic, and Barry S. Willer, PhD, professor of psychiatry at UB and the clinic’s research director are co-principal investigators on the NIH grant.
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