4,400 sports-related head injuries at Massachusetts' schools

(The Boston Globe, November 25, 2013)

Students across Massachusetts suffered more than 4,400 concussions or other head injuries while playing school sports during the last school year, according to surveys submitted to the state by about 360 public and private schools. This was the second year that the surveys were collected under the state’s 2010 concussion law. The data will be studied by the Sports Medicine Committee of the MIAA, which oversees high school interscholastic competition, said the committee’s chairman, Dr. Alan Ashare.