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Jingwen Hu is the associate director of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) and a research associate professor in UMTRI and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research primarily focuses on using a combination of experimental, computational, and…

Research continues to show the benefits of incorporating supervised exercise during the early symptomatic period following a sport-related concussion. Jeremiah Freeman, a certified athletic trainer with Michigan NeuroSport, worked alongside Dr. Michael Popvich, clinical assistant professor of Neurology at the…

Dr. John Leddy, clinical professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Buffalo Jacob School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, joined the U-M Concussion Center on Thursday, October 28 for the first in-person Speaker Series event since the…

Faculty members from over a dozen units from across the University of Michigan campus came together on Tuesday, October 12 for a discussion focusing on identifying strategic enablers of the center’s concussion-related research.  The session was facilitated by the Michigan…

The U-M Concussion Center hosted the virtual discussion “Concussion and long-term neurological health: Have we just scratched the surface?” on Thursday, October 21. Raquel Gardner, associate professor of Neurology for the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine’s Welli…

Dr. Steve Broglio, professor of Athletic Training at the U-M School of Kinesiology and director of the U-M Concussion Center, spoke with The Michigan Daily about the new findings regarding the new timeline for concussion recovery and about the $42.65M grant…

Next phase of CARE, the CARE-SALTOS Integrated (CSI) Study to follow athletes 10+ years after concussive injury and repetitive head impact exposure The NCAA-U.S. Department of Defense Concussion Assessment, Research and Education (CARE) Consortium — the largest concussion and repetitive…

The University of Michigan Concussion Center and Detroit Public Schools Community District have partnered to develop a concussion toolkit to improve concussion prevention, identification, and care for student-athletes. The toolkit addresses gaps in concussion education, lists available resources and provides…

Concussion Center faculty member Adam Finkel, clinical professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, wrote an essay for the British Safety Council magazine titled “Brain injury in sport: why the House of Commons report…

Director Steve Broglio highlighted the Care Consortium study “The Natural History of Sport-Related Concussion in Collegiate Athletes: Findings from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium,” during an interview this week with Michigan News. He talked about how normal concussion recovery time could take…