During the study, doctors tracked 268 children admitted to a hospital in Ontario, Canada, after suffering a head trauma. One-third of them was given the diagnosis of “concussion,” while the others got some variation of “traumatic brain injury (TBI).” Those with a diagnosis of “concussion” were 1-1/2 times as likely to be discharged from the hospital as those with a “mild TBI” diagnosis.

The study suggests that a children who’s given the diagnosis of concussion, the less like the family is to consider it a brain injury. These children may be sent back to school or allowed to return to normal activity sooner than they should.

At the event, Rev. Jackson told attorneys about the critical need for free legal counsel to low-income people in areas including divorce, child support and visitation, guardianship, adoption, special education, consumer fraud, landlord-tenant, bankruptcy and tort defense.

Benson, whose organization will provide training to attorneys, said that very little reporting will be required and that volunteer attorneys would be covered by CVLS malpractice insurance. For further information, contact Benson at 312-332-5542.

At the hearings, Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner, would not way whether he thought there was a link between football and cognitive decline among NFL players. However, he did say that the issue of brain injuries in football warranted federal scrutiny because “the NFL is a monopoly whose existence was legislatively sanctioned.” U.S. Representative Michael Quigley, of Illinois, said that although Congress is focusing mostly on NFL policies, that “the norms of the NFL, for better or worse, become the norms of high school football players.”

Yesterday, President Obama sent Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Chicago to meet with Mayor Daley, local leaders, and Fenger students.

During a press conference at City Hall, officials announced a $500,000 grant to help make Fenger and the schools that feed into it safer. Daley, Holder and Duncan had breakfast at the Four Seasons Hotel off Michigan Avenue with religious and community leaders to discuss youth violence.

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Antonio Romanucci praised the effort, indicating that it will address two fundamental, timely and critical issues facing professional football players: first, the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of concussions and TBI in active players; and second, the long-term cumulative effects of isolated or repetitive TBI in NFL players as patients in order to discover how these effects can be reduced and eliminated.

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A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is defined as a blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the function of the brain. Not all blows or jolts to the head result in a TBI. The severity of such an injury may range from "mild," i.e., a brief change in mental status or consciousness to "severe," i.e., an extended period of unconsciousness or amnesia after the injury. A TBI can result in short or long-term problems with independent function.