Sentences with phrase «concussion than players»

Players aged 11 - 12 years were almost 3 times more likely to have a concussion than players aged 8 - 10 years.

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Everyone now has a much deeper and more substantial understanding about concussions, and how to prevent and manage them, than they did 20 or even 10 years ago, and the information conveyed to players reflects that greater understanding.

That said, it really doesn't matter since a player can heal sometimes quicker from a concussion than a dislocated shoulder or broken wrist or whatever a more serious upper body injury is, so it's not necessarily even a good thing that it isn't a concussion.

Goodell acknowledged that the culture of silence is alive and well; that too many players still hide concussions, and have a «play through, rather than a play safe mentality.»

While much of what the speakers at the N.F.L. / USA Football luncheon I attended last week in New York City was concussions and football safety advice MomsTEAM has been giving parents for years, what impressed me the most was what we were told about the ongoing efforts by the league and its youth football partner to improve health and safety for football players from the pros down to the youth level, a topic which takes up more of N.F.L. commissioner Roger Goodell's time than any other.

If the long - since discredited language of «shake it off»» and «getting dinged» persists; if players aren't willing to self - report concussion symptoms; and, when on rare occasion they actually do, the coaches and medical personnel on the sideline don't take a lot more cautious approach in concussion management and pay more than lip service to the mantra of «When in doubt, sit them out,» well, then, football may be in for a world of hurt.

The study's authors offered several possible explanations for the concussion rate in female middle school soccer players four times higher than in the most recent study of female high school soccer players.

Female soccer players playing elite or select soccer before high school sustained concussions at a rate higher than their high school and college counterparts, most continued to play despite experiencing symptoms, and less than half sought medical attention, a first - of - its - kind study finds.

Noting other studies finding that between one - third and one - half of players report concussion symptoms for which they did not seek medical attention, and the fact that, in the current study, only 44.1 % of athletes identified through the weekly interviews sought medical evaluation by a QHP, and that the concussion rate considering only those diagnosed by a QHP was far lower than the overall rate reported -LRB-.4 per 1,000 AEs versus 1.3 per 1,000 AEs).

I again recommended that USA Football do more than it was doing on concussion safety, such as by training coaches to teach youth football players Coach Bobby Hosea's «Heads Up» tackling and doing more concussion education of coaches, parents, and players.

Some football helmet manufacturers suggest that players who wear their helmets - especially new models - may be at lower risk of concussion than those who wear competitors» models or older helmets, basing their claims on how well the new or newer helmets absorb and lessen some of the impact forces that cause concussion in biomechanical studies performed in the controlled environment of the laboratory.

The abnormalities disclosed on post-season DTI scans among the players were closer to the scan of the one player with diagnosed concussion than to the normal brains in the control group.

Numerous concussion and biomechanical studies have been conducted involving high school and college football players, but only few studies have focused on players under the age of 14, who represent more than 70 percent of those playing the sport.

In a study of former NFL players, Guskiewicz found that suffering multiple concussions can make athletes more vulnerable to depression later in life and, last year, data revealed that retired NFL players suffered from higher rates of dementia and Alzheimer's than the general population.

Based on data showing that, while youth football players sustained concussions at about the same rate in practice and overall as high school and college athletes, they were injured at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than older players during games, the UPMC researchers predicted that Pop Warner's new rules «may not only have little effect on reducing on reducing concussions but may also actually increase the incidence of concussions in games via reduced time learning proper tackling in practice.»

Finding a way to reconcile two competing demands - minimizing contact in practice in order to reduce the number of concussions sustained and the number of hits players sustain over the course of a week and a season that emerging science, now more than ever, suggests may have a deleterious cumulative effect [26] on a player's cognitive function over the long term, while at the same time maximizing the amount of time in practice learning how to tackle and block without head - to - head contact - time that is needed to maximize the protective effect of proper tackling on the number of head - to - head hits players sustain in game action, which can not only result in concussion, but catastrophic neck and spine injuries - is challenging, but clearly not impossible.

The risk of brain injuries in professional football has gotten enormous attention thanks to more than 4,200 former players suing the National Football League, alleging the league withheld information about the long - term dangers of concussions.

Some experts believe the NCAA could have a harder time defending itself than the National Football League, which recently agreed to dole out $ 765 million to pay for injury settlements and medical monitoring and care for former players who suffered concussions and other brain injuries.

According to statistics kept by the Centers for Disease Control, in 2007, girls» soccer players reported 29,167 concussions, second only to football players.And, a study published in the Jan. 2011 edition of theJournal of Athletic Training said female athletes experience more physical long - term symptoms than male athletes.

A recent study of high school sports revealed that the concussion rate in boys» ice hockey (5.4 per 10000 AEs) was second only to football (6.4 per 10000 AEs); however, concussions accounted for a greater proportion of total injures in boys» ice hockey (22.2 %) than any of the other 20 sports, with 30 % of the concussions in ice hockey resulting from a player being body checked.

ESPN.com is reporting that the NFL and more than 4,500 former players want to resolve concussion - related lawsuits with a $ 765 million settlement that would fund medical exams, concussion - related compensation and medical research, a federal judge said Thursday.

He also found that players who sustained one concussion in a season were three times more likely than uninjured players to sustain another in the same season.

Combining data recorded from football players with computer simulations of the brain, a team working with David Camarillo, an assistant professor of bioengineering, found that concussions and other mild traumatic brain injuries seem to arise when an area deep inside the brain shakes more rapidly and intensely than surrounding areas.

In the 2014 soccer World Cup, concussion assessment protocols were not followed in more than 60 percent of plays in which players involved in head collisions were not assessed by sideline health care personnel, according to a study published by JAMA.

On average, they found, the players performed no differently on neurocognitive tests or Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SATs) than nonplayers, even when the former had suffered concussions.

A college football player who has been diagnosed with a concussion is likely to have a smaller hippocampus, the memory center of the brain, than a player who hasn't been so diagnosed, a new study finds.

Among retired football players who have sustained three or more concussions, 20 percent have been diagnosed with clinical depression — more than three times the rate of players who never got a concussion.

More than 2.7 million concussion injuries were reported from the fall of 2005 through the spring of 2016, with the greatest occurrence among high school football players.