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Super Bowl Concussion Clinic

By Michael Kaplen

The day before Super Bowl XLV researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington will host a clinic dealing with the risk of concussions in sports.

UT Arlington's Center for Healthy Living and Longevity and the Sports Legacy Institute of Boston are hosts of a free, 90-minute Concussion Clinic at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011 at the Maverick Activities Center?s Lone Star.

The clinic will feature research and technology presentations by Jacob Resch, a UT Arlington assistant professor of kinesiology, and Chris Nowinski, president and co-founder of the Sports Legacy Institute and author of the 2006 book "Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis." Nowinksi is also the co-chair of education and awareness for the National Football League Players Association Mackey/White Traumatic Brain Injury Committee.

Full post as published by Brain Injury News and Information on January 31, 2011 (boomark / email).