Access Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics Walk-In Clinic in Exeter, N.H., has entered into a partnership with Rye Airfield to raise awareness about concussion prevention and treatment, according to a Foster's Daily Democrat report.

Male and female athletes are more likely to incur different types of injuries, according to orthopedic surgeon Kim Templeton, MD, of the University of Kansas Hospital.

Four new medical facilities in Nebraska have joined the Nebraska Sports Concussion Network, according to a WOWT report.

UPMC Sports Medicine has expanded its concussion program, which includes nine examination rooms for a 24-person multispecialty staff devoted to assessing, treating, managing and researching concussions.

Summer Ott, a neuropsychologist and an authority on sports concussions, joined Ironman Sports Medicine Institute at Memorial Hermann in Houston as it sports concussion program director.

Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University have partnered to operate the Cleveland Traumatic Neuromechanics Consortium, according to a report from The Plain Dealer.

Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Gulf Breeze, Fla., announced a partnership with the Child Neurology Center of Northwest Florida to enhance its concussion management protocol.

The Defense Department's U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command has awarded Michael McCrea, PhD, director of brain injury research at Medical College of Wisconsin, $1.9 million over the next three years to study concussions among military personnel, according to a Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel report.

Alexander Vaccaro, MD, PhD, a spine surgeon with Rothman Institute in Philadelphia and vice chairman of the department of orthopedics at Thomas Jefferson Hospital, discusses spinal injuries in athletes. Dr. Vaccaro recently worked with Pittsburgh Penguins' Sidney Crosby after spinal injury was suspected.

Properly fitting helmets can decrease the risk of losing consciousness after sustaining a concussion during football games, according to an American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine news release.