All Articles by Deb Vee

In a new policy statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends middle and high schools delay the start of class to 8:30 a.m. or later in order to align school schedules to the biological sleep rhythms of adolescents, whose sleep-wake cycles begin to shift up to two hours later at the start of puberty.

The Smart Teams Play Safe™ summit is bringing together leading clinicians, researchers and scientists in the field of youth sports health and safety to announce a comprehensive set of youth sports health and safety best practices, and to mark the launch of MomsTEAM Institute’s innovative SmartTeam™ program, which will be implementing best practices in six communities around the country in the fall of 2014.

With demand for concussion education at an all-time high, who should sports programs hire to educate athletes, coaches, and parents about concussions? A leading concussion educator provides helpful advice on who to look for.

With demand for concussion education, not just for parents, coaches, and athletes, but, for health care professionals as well is at an all-time high. But who should sports programs hire to educate athletes, coaches, and parents about concussions? MomsTEAM asked a number of leading concussion educators. (first in a series)

The Arena Football League (AFL), in partnership with Brain Sentry, has become the first professional sports league to require helmet-mounted impact sensors to alert sideline personnel to hits that may cause concussion.

As it did in 2013, the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment was quick to criticize and find fault with the Virginia Tech 2014 STAR ratings of football helmets designed to measure in a laboratory setting a helmets effectiveness in reducing concussion risk.

With the World Cup starting, the author of a new book discusses three soccer-specific conditions that youth soccer players can suffer, all of which can be easily managed with proper care and treatment: Sever's Disease, Osgood-Schlatter's, and Pattellofemoral Syndrome,