Concussed athletes more likely to injure their legs months later

Noted: Problems in other brain systems, like vision, might also increase athlete injury risk, says Alison Brooks at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison. But she warns that the underlying relationship between concussion and other injuries is unclear. “How do we know these athletes weren’t different to begin with? Maybe the reason they got a concussion in the first place is that there’s something different about them,” she says.