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But Locker phrases it differently, calling them the most dangerous injuries in sports today.
Repeated trauma before a full recovery worsens the issue, increasing the likelihood of long-term problems.
Long-term effects include brain swelling, sleeping problems, migraines, permanent brain damage and even death.
So when teams rush players back to the field from concussions early, it bothers concussion experts such as Michael Collins, who has served as a concussion consultant for the National Federations of High Schools and MLB, USA Rugby and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Collins recognizes a concussion as an energy crisis in the br...
But hits on the field aren’t the only issue; the recovery process presents problems, too. Ash didn’t just suit up and play Sept. 21 against Kansas State — he prepared all week. He watched video, studied plays and even went to class, all creating added stress on his brain.
Ash’s situation has brought the concussion prevention and management debate to the forefront in Austin. But doctors maintain concussion prevention more complicated than adding a few rules.
Locker said one of the biggest illusions centered around the concussion issue is the idea of the helmet being a safety regulation for concussions.
Locker said studies between old and new helmets find that better equipment doesn’t make a difference as long as it fits.
Despite the advanced technology, the chance of injury is still there.
In fact, Locker believes that all the helmets do is encourage poor habits.
That’s the biggest problem with concussion prevention — there is no way to stop the shaking of the brain. There’s no helmet for the brain; that’s the head’s job.
According to Collins, management is the key to aiding concussion recovery and preventing them from happening, and that starts with players and coaches.
Texas followed the NCAA Recommended Best Practices for a Concussion Management Plan for Ash’s injury, a set of guidelines for all NCAA institutions. With no clear NCAA protocol, this is more Texas’ process than the NCAA’s plan. It requires that student-athletes, coaches and other pertinent team personnel are educated a...
Per Texas protocol, if a student-athlete sustains a mild head injury or exhibits signs of a concussion, he is immediately put through sideline screening by the athletic trainer. If he or she feels there is a positive finding for a concussion, Texas withholds the student-athlete from play for the rest of the day.
While much of the management up to this point has been monitoring behaviors and observing the athlete, the first measurable test has been created — the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing, or ImPACT test, which was co-founded by Collins.
The system does more than determine whether or not an athlete has a concussion — ImPACT helps further concussion research.
Before the first practice at Texas in baseball, basketball, diving, football, pole vaulting, soccer and softball, the medical staff issues a baseline test through ImPACT. A concussed student is considered “cured” when his original performance on the exam matches his post-concussion test.
But all of this testing can sometimes fail. When athletes come back too soon, it can cause long-term issues.
After missing the last six games with recurring concussion symptoms, junior quarterback David Ash’s season is officially over.
Ash first suffered a concussion on Sept. 7 against BYU, causing him to miss Texas’ next game against Ole Miss. He returned on Sept. 21 against Kansas State, but only played the first half before being forced to leave with returning symptoms. He has not played since.
The junior quarterback enjoyed a strong start to the season, throwing for 760 yards and seven touchdowns against two interceptions while rushing for a career-high 152 yards and a score. He is expected to be ready for the start of the 2014 spring season.
Texas can’t seem to catch a break.
Despite opening up their Big 12 schedule with a 31-21 victory over Kansas State — and taking some momentary heat off head coach Mack Brown — the Longhorns limped off the field Saturday after losing both junior quarterback David Ash and junior linebacker Jordan Hicks to injury. Hicks is out for the season with a torn Ac...
Following its bye week, Texas takes on winless Iowa State on the road. On paper, it’s a favorable matchup for the Longhorns. The Cyclones, who lost both of their home games this season, are averaging just 20.5 points a game. In addition, Iowa State is ineffective at running the ball, which has — sorry, Jordan Hicks — b...
The Longhorns could be in for a rough stretch when they head to Dallas for the Red River Rivalry game against Oklahoma, who shellacked them 63-21 last season. Led by senior running back Brennan Clay and junior quarterback Blake Bell, who had four rushing touchdowns in last year’s game, the Sooners boast a rushing attac...
After the Red River Rivalry, Texas hits the road for two of its next three games, taking on a TCU team that has stumbled out to a disappointing 1-2 record. Although the Horned Frogs have yet to hold an opponent under 20 points, don’t underestimate their defense: they smothered Texas in their 20-13 win on Thanksgiving l...
By far, the toughest stretch for Texas will be its final three games, when it will take on Big 12 favorite Oklahoma State, upstart Texas Tech and offensive-juggernaut Baylor. Oklahoma State and Baylor look especially dangerous because they have something Texas doesn’t: a game-changing quarterback. Despite splitting tim...
Though Brown preaches “one game at a time,” some of these games are surely looming in the back of his mind. With four ranked opponents and only three home games remaining for the Longhorns, this team’s resilience will be tested.
After deeming him a game time decision earlier in the week, Texas ruled junior quarterback David Ash out for Saturday’s game against Ole Miss.
Ash suffered injuries to his head and right shoulder in the fourth quarter of last Saturday’s game against Brigham Young University and did not practice during the week. Senior quarterback Case McCoy receives will start in Ash's place, with freshman Tyrone Swoopes assuming the role of backup.
Ash enjoyed a strong start to the season, throwing for 594 yards and six touchdowns while rushing for a team-leading 125 yards and a score in his first two games. The Longhorns did not announce when they expect Ash to return.
McCoy recorded six starts in his first six seasons and threw for more than 300 yards in each of his past two starts. That said, the Longhorns are just 2-5 in games that the senior threw at least 15 passes.
Despite this, head coach Mack Brown said the players remain confident McCoy can lead them to victory in Ash’s absence.
The Banteay Meanchey provincial Military Police on Wednesday sent a businessman and his driver to court for running a mountain excavation operation in Preah Neth Preah district without a valid licence.
Deputy district police chief Sin Rasy told The Post on Wednesday that Soeum Sambo and his excavator driver Sem Rithy, both 33, were arrested on Tuesday when authorities inspected the site in Phnom Leap commune’s Troyorng village.
They had earlier received a report that one of Sambo’s excavators fell off the mountain, killing another driver identified as Khlinh Sy, 27.
“After inspection and questioning, authorities found that the owner does not have a valid licence for mountain excavation,” he said.
Provincial Military Police commander Baon Ben said on Wednesday that Sambo and his excavator driver were sent to court on a charge of “destruction of natural resources”.
Reached by phone before his trial began, Sambo claimed he had a valid excavation licence issued by provincial authorities. However, he acknowledged that his workers had overstepped the boundary of Leap mountain, where the excavation operation took place.
“I confessed that my workers’ operation was beyond what is allowed by the licence,” he said.
Local villagers and authorities said mountain excavation in the area had been going on for a long time and is being done by various companies.
Phnom Leap commune chief Em Nuy said another company, Ean Chea, stopped its operations after the tragic accident, apparently foreseeing the authorities’ inspection.
File photo of the boarded up ranger's cabin in Stratford’s Roosevelt Forest, which is where the town's new dog park will be situated, officials say.
STRATFORD — This town has been howling for a dog park for decades, and now some progress is being made on the pooch playground.
The Town Council on Monday, yielding to the hundreds of sad-eyed, floppy-eared faces in town, agreed to award a contract to a company that will demolish the old ranger station residence at the entrance to Roosevelt Forest, where canines will soon be able to cavort with one another.
The low bid came in at about $22,000, which includes carting away whatever other mess is strewn about the old ranger station in the North End.
Details are still being worked out, but officials say that the fenced-in facility will have a key card system to permit only Stratford dogs to enter. There will also be a small parking lot.
In March, the council finally wagged its tail the Roosevelt Forest venue for the facility. Dozens of other sites from one end of town to the other were getting the stiff test, but most of these faced growls of disapproval from nearby residents.
Most of the money will come from an appropriation from the 2016-17 fiscal year, which ended on July 1. Officials said that it’ll still face scrutiny from the Inland Wetlands Commission.
The building that will be torn down hasn’t been used in about two decades.
Development has been steady along Keo Way, known as the gateway to downtown.
A West Des Moines-based company known for its suburban housing developments is taking its first foray into urban building with 49 townhomes on Keosauqua Way.
Cityview 34, an upscale townhome community development, will open at 1331 Keosauqua Way next summer. It's located south of Interstate Highway 235 and east of Keo Way in a spot considered the gateway into downtown Des Moines.
"A lot of growth is happening in that corridor, so we're excited about that," said John Habermann, director of property management with Caliber Iowa. "As far as access to Methodist (Medical Center), Principal, the connection to I-235 ... it's an excellent location."
The brownstone-style units will each be three stories with two bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms and a two-car garage. Each townhome will be 1,400 square feet and include a rooftop terrace.
It will cost $13.1 million to build.
Caliber Iowa is "not discussing" whether the townhomes at Cityview 34 will be rentals or owner-occupied, Habermann said.
Ryan Moffatt, Des Moines' economic development coordinator, said Caliber Iowa has told the city it will keep an eye on the downtown housing market before deciding.
"This is common when we have these townhome configurations downtown," he said. "Developers plat them so they could be sold ... that way they can keep their options open."
Neither Habermann nor Mofatt would disclose a price point for the townhomes.
The property was owned by the Iowa Department of Transportation and was once the site of a cloverleaf off ramp from I-235.
Keo Way serves as the primary entryways into downtown from the west. And it's one of the busiest, seeing 29,800 vehicles per day, according to a 2016 traffic study by the Iowa Department of Transportation.
Development along Keo Way has been steady for the past five years, spurred in 2013 by Principal Financial Group's $284 million renovation of its corporate campus on the north side of downtown. Just two vacant buildings remain on the stretch from I-235 south into the business district.
QuickTrip owns the building at 1200 Keo Way. The gas station and convenience store had plans to build there, but the 5,300-square-foot building is back on the market. QuickTrip is marketing the property as a "prime food location," according to its real estate website.
Across the street, the buildings at 1201 and 1207 Keo Way once home to Reliable Carpet Co. are also for sale. Bob Kurtz, owner of nearby Kurtz Hardware and a member of the partnership that owns the property, said they have had a lot of interest from developers who have wanted to turn the space into a music venue, a cof...
But developers have had a hard time reconfiguring the nearly 100-year-old buildings in such a narrow space. It's also been difficult to make parking and financing work, he said.
Kurtz hopes someone will be interested in rehabbing the structure instead of demolishing to build new. "It's really a neat building," he said.
"Development needs to move more this way. With the advent of Mainframe Studios, it’s slowly starting to happen," Kurtz said. "Some of this stuff just takes time."
Des Moines at one time had considered investing in streetscape improvements along Keo Way, but has since abandoned those plans as private "redevelopment has taken the need for some of that away," Moffatt said.
The former Owen Crist Auto Body, 1221 Keo Way, was demolished for a retail strip center known as Crist Center that now houses Subway,Lina's Mexican Restaurant, CrossFit 8035 and GEICO.
Mainframe Studios, a space for artists to rent affordable studios, fills the former Qwest Communications office at 900 Keo Way.
Earlham Savings Bank opened a branch at the former Greyhound bus station at 1107 Keo Way.
Kum & Go built a new gas station and convenience store at 1300 Keo Way.
Git 'N Go, 1240 Keo Way, demolished its old gas station and is building a new store.
Silver Oaks Apartments, a senior housing complex at 979 Oakridge Drive, opened.
Electronic Engineering, 1100 Keo Way, has maintained a presence at that corner for more than 59 years.
A number of wealthy individuals with Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull connections have made the prestigious Sunday Times Rich List.
Among them are Lord Edmiston, Sir Peter Rigby , Tony Gallagher and brothers Michael and Kenny Bruce.
The newspaper’s annual list of the UK’s wealthiest individuals features a separate Midlands list, which is topped by Lord Edmiston, who is ranked the sixth wealthiest in the region with an estimated fortune of £1.04bn.
Lord Edmiston founded the Coleshill-based IM Group, which is made of a property company and the International Motors automotive franchises.
Lord Edmiston was made a Conservative life peer in 2011 but quit the House of Lords in 2015 to spend more time on his charity work.
He is one of the UK’s biggest philanthropic donors and wants to devote more of his time to religious and educational charities. He set up Christian Vision in 1988, a worldwide charity aiming to help a billion people.
He is also a significant donor to the Conservative party.
Christian Vision sponsors three city academies in the Midlands including the Grace Academies in Darlaston, Solihull and Coventry.
Teaching is based on Christian principles, encouraging decency, respect and compassion.
A former finance director at the failed Jensen Motors, Lord Edmiston used his £6000 redundancy pay to set up International Motors in 1974.
He began as the world’s only distributor for Jensen parts before acquiring the franchises for Subaru and Isuzu.
The IM group is housed on a purpose-built 200-acre site in Coleshill, Warwickshire , which is the headquarters of its global operations.
The business - one of the largest of its kind in the UK - was acquired by a London housing association.
Gallagher Estates controls plots of land with potential for 42,500 homes, mainly in the south Midlands and south of England. It was bought by London and Quadrant Housing Trust,.
Mr Gallagher plans to use the cash generated by the sale to build up a valuable private rented sector operation in London and other UK cities.
The sale did not include Mr Gallagher’s retail and property investment and development business - Gallagher Developments which continues to acquire and develop prime commercial land.
Mr Gallagher has spent more than three decades accumulating land and property assets ranging from retail parks, housing plots and industrial sites. The result is a vast land bank under development throughout the UK, as well as a large retail park investment portfolio.
A flagship development from Gallagher Developments is the Warwick Gates Business Park which offers business properties and offices of all sizes, complete with lake and tree-lined boulevards.
Coventry Airport owner Sir Peter Rigby founded the Rigby Group, which last September unveiled its best ever figures in its 42 year history in September. Revenues soared past the £2 billion mark.
Profits and turnover at the Stratford-upon-Avon based company increased by more than 20 per cent as the company saw success across its six divisions of technology, airports, hotels, real estate, aviation and financial services.
In the year to March 2017 the Rigby Group posted revenues of £2.17 billion up from £1.79 billion the previous year. Pre-tax profits, before exceptional items were £27.9 million.
The Rigby Group’s airports division, which owns Bournemouth, Coventry, Exeter and Norwich airports, bought the under-performing corporate jet centre at Birmingham Airport from Marshall Aviation Services in May 2017. The facility will come under the banner of XLR Executive Jet Centres, joining jet centres at Coventry an...
Mr Rigby’s upmarket hotels group, under the Eden Hotel Collection brand now includes Bovey Castle on Dartmoor, Brockencote Hall in Worcestershire and the Victorian mansion at Chaddesley Corbett near Kidderminster, the Michelin-starred Mallory Court Hotel near Leamington, the exclusive Kings Hotel in Chipping Campden, t...
Rigby Group subsidiary British International Helicopters is operating search and rescue services in the Falkland Islands for the Ministry of Defence, working alongside military resources in the South Atlantic. Work has also completed to turn former passenger facilities at Coventry Airport into a manufacturing and distr...