A new University of Michigan study found an increase in the percentage of adolescents reporting concussions. The study looked at 50,000 eighth, tenth and twelfth graders between 2016 and 2020. 19.5% of those students reported concussions in 2016. In 2020, 24.6% reported concussions. A higher percentage of boys reported having concussions, but self-reported concussion rates among boys and girls increased at approximately the same rate during the study. “We found self-reported concussions could be increasing given that both children and parents have greater knowledge with respect to these injuries,” says Philip Veliz, a researcher in the U of M School of Nursing and one of the authors of the study. “The other thing that could be happening is that maybe the incidence of concussion might also just be increasing.”