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Bodywork: Can a collar protect athletes from brain injuries?

January 31, 2023

While watching the NFL playoffs, I’ve noticed a number of players wearing what looks like a collar around their necks. It’s not attached to anything, and it’s not bulky like a typical pad. Any idea what this is and why players are wearing it?

Filed Under: Bodywork Tagged With: adam cohen, concussions, football, McEver, Q-Collar, rodger, safety, scientist-news, traumatic brain injury

When the Super Bowl is about more than football

February 20, 2022

And then there was the Super Bowl.

Filed Under: On Your Health Tagged With: adam cohen, cancer, football, melanoma, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Super Bowl

Bodywork: Are youth sports safe from virus outbreaks?

April 13, 2021

With no vaccines yet approved for people under 16, should we be concerned about youth sports?

Filed Under: Bodywork, COVID-19 News Tagged With: adam, athletics, baseball, basketball, bodywork, children, cohen, concern, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, football, kids, little league, news, newsok, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, oklahoman, OMRF, Pandemic, Prescott, soccer, sports, stephen, steve, vaccines, virus, youth, youth sports

OMRF scientist shows potential ALS, traumatic brain injury link

August 11, 2015

Evidence shows TBI could worsen effects of Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: ALS, battle, CDC, concussion, diagnosed, football, Holly, Holly Van Remmen, injury, linked, lous gehrig's disease, mice, neurodegenerative, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, ph.d., related, scientist-news, sports, tbi, traumatic brain injury, van remmen, war

Bedlam Buddies

When heart disease was the opponent, even long-time rivals like the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University could team up. In 1951, legendary Sooner head coach Bud Wilkinson (third from right) and his OSU counterpart, Jim Lookabaugh (second from right), helped kick off an American Heart Association campaign to benefit cardiovascular research at OMRF.

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