The idea for Next Season began in the summer of 2007. Nicolai Lechuga (aka“Nico”) was interning for a law firm in Southern California, when he met Lysette Rios. Lysette initially took notice of Nico while he was sorting through files and walking around the office barefoot like he owned the place. However, as Nico and Lysette [...]

Half of all skiing deaths are caused by a head injury. Recent studies show that using a helmet was associated with a 60% reduction in risk for head injuries, and affected overall morbidity and mortality rates dramatically. The federal government also released a study that more than 7,000 head injuries per year on the slopes [...]

No athlete who has suffered a life-altering injury should ever be without necessary healthcare. Although we focus on prevention first through education and awareness, when misfortune occurs we will be there to bolster the overall physical and cognitive health of athletes. By uniting the athletic, medical and scientific communities – we help…[Read more]

Next Season’s Officers and Board of Directors backgrounds span throughout medicine, business, academia and athletics. Officers/ Board of Directors: Nicolai Lechuga is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Next Season. A sports business graduate from New York University, Nico is currently involved in several entrepreneurial and…[Read more]

By ALAN SCHWARZ Originally Published : July 26, 2010 in the New York Times The National Football League is producing a poster that bluntly alerts its players to the long-term effects of concussions, using words like “depression” and “early onset of dementia” that those close to the issue described as both staggering and overdue. The poster, soon…[Read more]

Executive Vice President Craig Underwood on our Chief Executive Officer I first met Nico when I was leading a team at Apple. We immediately hit it off and each time I saw him after that, we just picked up from our last conversation. When the time came for him to choose a university he shared his [...]

How frequently do sports injuries occur? In the United States, about 30 million children and teens participate in some form of organized sports, and about 3 million injuries occur each year, which cause some loss of time and participation. Almost one-third of all injuries incurred in childhood are sports-related injuries. By far, the most common…[Read more]

A Short History of the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury Accounts of spinal cord injuries and their treatment date back to ancient times, even though there was little chance of recovery from such a devastating injury. The earliest is found in an Egyptian papyrus roll manuscript written in approximately 1700 B.C. that describes two spinal cord [...]

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STRATTON, Vt. — One of the uglier crashes of Scotty Lago’s snowboarding career occurred last summer during a halfpipe competition in New Zealand. While attempting a Cab 1080 — a spin of three rotations — Lago struck his upper body hard on the lip of the halfpipe, sending his hat (he was not wearing a helmet) [...]

Here is an article of interest from our esteemed friend Alan Schwarz: Comittee Hears from School Athletes on Concussions.

On behalf of Next Season, I would like to personally thank Mr. Alan Schwarz and The New York Times for allowing us to post his recent article featuring Next Season’s own, Dr. David Lechuga. Mr. Schwarz is a celebrated writer and author who has taken a particular interest in brain trauma and its correlation with [...]

By ALAN SCHWARZ In what could have been a fresh start for the N.F.L.’s committee on head injuries, its two new co-chairmen, making their first official remarks on concussions before a House Judiciary Committee panel on Monday in Manhattan, were heatedly rebuked by lawmakers for sounding “like the same old N.F.L.” That characterization by Linda T. [...]

By ALAN SCHWARZ Researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy have decided that the N.F.L.’s offer of support is what they had hoped: $1 million, and zero strings. The N.F.L. extended its offer in December to help finance research by the group, whose discoveries of disease inside the [...]

Rarely does a week pass without some mention in the lay media about sports-related concussions, sustained at the amateur or professional level of competition. Recently, the topic of head injuries in the National Football League (NFL) prompted a congressional hearing, fostering a widening discussion and debate about the actual incidence of…[Read more]

THE EXPERT Dr. David Lechuga, a neuropsycologist, has been involved in about 40 football workers’ compensation cases since 2007.