This is your brain on sports. Measuring concussions in high school athletes in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Concussions can have a negative impact on students' ability to perform in the classroom as well as on their health and well-being. Therefore, timely treatment is especially important. To better understand the scope of the problem in Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Health piloted an online sports-related concussion reporting system in 36 public high schools in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Connecting kids! Effective recruitment for resource facilitation in the pediatric population.

Objective: To describe and compare recruitment strategies to Resource Facilitation (RF) for children and youth with an incident traumatic brain injury.

Population: The universe of Minnesota children (0-14 years old) and youth (15-24 years old) with a traumatic brain injury, and discharge date in the year 2005.

Methods: Using an observational study design, registry data were merged with the data sets kept for each method of contact.