UO E-Clips is a daily report prepared by the Office of Communications (http://uonews.uoregon.edu/) summarizing current news coverage of the University of Oregon.
Media mentions for January 17
UO museum opening history exhibit
Albany Democrat-Herald: The Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon is opening a new exhibition called “Site Seeing: Snapshots of Historical Archaeology in Oregon” on Friday, Jan. 18 ... Most of the materials featured in the exhibit have never been on public display. They come from five historical sites around the state, including a 19th-century Klamath homestead in Eastern Oregon, a pioneer cemetery uncovered during construction of PeaceHealth’s RiverBend Hospital, an outhouse in a working-class Portland neighborhood, and sites in Jacksonville and John Day that reveal clues about Chinese immigrant experiences in Oregon during the Gold Rush years.
Teenage athletes need more time to recover from concussions, UO study says
The Bend Bulletin: High school athletes who suffer concussions might need more recovery time than current practices dictate, a new study by University of Oregon researchers suggests. Cognitive abilities, such as the ability to focus or to switch tasks, were compromised for up to two months after a concussion, researchers found. The computer-measured results were often at odds with how the athletes said they felt. There was also anecdotal evidence that the academic performance of injured athletes declined during the two-month period. Conventional wisdom on typical recovery time for a concussion, according to a University of Oregon news release, is seven to 10 days. An athlete who returns to play before a full recovery is in danger of another concussion, it adds. The chances of suffering a second one are three to six times higher, and are eight times higher for a third. Researchers used a sample of 40 high school athletes, half of whom were healthy and half of whom had suffered concussions. Every athlete with a concussion was matched with a healthy one equivalent in age, gender and body size who was also in the same sport. The study appeared in December in the journal of the American College of Sports Medicine.
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Late mentions for January 16
Marketing experts say tough road back for Armstrong
USA Today: As Lance Armstrong kicks off the rehabilitation of his public image with a TV sitdown with Oprah Winfrey running Thursday, he might be facing his steepest hill climb ... Paul Swangard, who oversees sports marketing studies at the University of Oregon, sees parallels between Armstrong and Woods. “They're both trying to follow the same path of the three legs to recovery, which are to apologize, then act responsibly and then get back to what people liked watching you docompete and win,” Swangard says. “But Armstrong doesn't have anywhere to compete, except maybe triathlons. His viability as a marketer is gone. But he still has equity for his cancer efforts, and there's a lot he could build on in the cancer research field.”
UO concussion research shows athletes may need months to recover
KMTR: New concussion research from a graduate student at the University of Oregon shows that some athletes might need more time to fully recover from the injury than doctors typically diagnose. Normally, most doctors give athletes about a week to 10 days to recover from a concussion, however, new research from the University of Oregon's Department of Human Physiology shows that some brains can be impaired even two months after a head injury. Graduate student David Howell helped lead the research ... “After a first injury, if you come back to play within that season, there's some research that indicates that you're three times more likely to receive a second concussion,” said Howell.