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UMass Team Physician Dr. Rouzier On Risk Injuries

By Jason Yellin on April 15, 2011 11:43 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

New research suggests that some student athletes push themselves too hard. UMass sports medicine doctor Pierre Rouzier says media attention generated by regulations proposed in Massachusetts that aim to reduce concussions has already made a difference. A new study by the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine points to other risks like stress fractures--which Rouzier told WFCR's Susan Kaplan are typically related to the type and amount of activity.

Listen to Rouzier here: ListenNow.

Gazette's Concussion Series

By Jason Yellin on December 30, 2010 9:34 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

The sports collisions that make UMass athletics doctor Pierre Rouzier cringe used to make people laugh. Big hits that left players wobbly on the football field were almost punch lines - as if the wide-eyed, dazed looks were the result of too many beers and not a potential brain injury. Slapstick humor drew laughs for decades from head injuries every time Curly or Larry took a frying pan in the forehead from Moe, and sports was not much different. But as study after study has shown the scary potential of long-term effects of head injuries, concussions are no longer a punch line. The Daily Hampshire Gazette has a wonderful and information series on concussion. Read the various stories here:

• A new UMass drill: Teaching players about head injury

• New insight into an old problem: Doctors refine, improve treatment for concussion

• Parents, athletes aim for safety: Families, leagues adjusting to 'worrisome' aspect of sports

• See all of the stories and videos from the Gazette's series, Concussion: Condition Critical