Sentences with phrase «many concussives»

There is an even stronger correlation based on the total volume (concussive and non-concussive) of impacts.

Both are experienced public speakers, and despite that legendary accent and those concussive growls, O nails his line on take after take.

I could easily see it being a situation where he really was experiencing post concussive syndrome, did some soul searching, and decided if he was going to risk his health playing football, he at least was going to do it someplace where he's wanted.

Drysdale remains in awe of the concussive nature of Aaron's power.

Already stuck with revenue about 1 / 20th that of Texas, GSU has also taken the brunt of concussive budget cuts to higher education in Louisiana.

It has nothing to do with how the neurons fire in your brain after a concussion \ concussive blow.

Mild concussive symptoms make players more susceptible to severe concussions, and thus long - term neurological problems.

It depends on medical professionals being able to see concussive hits when they occur, even when large bodies pile up on one another on a football field.

don't lead to concussive blows to the head of another human being, Jon's «mistakes» are beyond the harm he's done to his own life, he's put the health and lives of others at stake not only behind the wheel, but inside the cage.

«Given that concussions are difficult to diagnose and often require either athlete reports or parental concerns to come to the attention of the coach,» they said, «educating athletes and their parents about the risks of a concussion and safe management is an essential part of preventing athletes from playing with concussive symptoms.»

«There may be certain messages that are more likely to encourage athletes to report concussive symptoms, such as focusing on short - term outcomes (concussions affect one's ability to play well) rather than long - term outcomes (playing with a concussion can cause brain damage).

Qualitative study of barriers to concussive symptom reporting in high school athletics.

The number of scientists and clinicians who have called over the last several years for more accurate reporting by the media on concussions and CTE, criticized the reporting of strongly presented causal assumptions relating to concussive and subconcussive brain impact exposure as «scientifically premature,» and highlighted the negative real world consequences to such one - sided reporting, has grown to consensus proportions, but have largely flown beneath the media's radar.

She said further research was needed to understand how education can be most effective toward preventing athletes from playing with concussive symptoms, and thus improving safety.

Whether or not that results in a reduction of concussive events in girls» lacrosse is unknown, although we will certainly be studying it,» said Stenersen.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

«The findings concerning identification and reporting,» said the authors of a 2013 study, [17] are particularly alarming given the growing body of both short - term and long - term issues associated with concussive injuries, such as psychological issues, school - related problems, increased risk of subsequent concussions and potential quality - of - life issues associated with concussions.»

According to a number of recent studies [1,2,5,13,18], while the culture of sport (including influences from professional and other athletes), as well as the media and other outside sources play a role in the decision of student - athletes to report experiencing concussion symptoms, it is coaches and teammates, along with parents, who have the strongest influence on the decision to report a concussion during sport participation, with coaches being one of the primary barriers to increased self - reporting by athletes of concussive symptoms.

Although the study did not survey parents, the student - athletes surveyed «indicated that what their parents thought about reporting was an important social factor when deciding to report concussive symptoms»).

Unless the coach made it clear that an athlete needed to report symptoms of concussion, it was perceived to be unacceptable to come out because of a «headache» or «dizziness» [because] athletes did not want to be wrong about being concussed and suffer negative consequences» such as being punished by the coach for reporting concussive symptoms «by removing them from a starting position, reducing their future playing time, or inferring that reporting concussive symptoms made them «weak.»»

The Commissioner is required to convene a working group to provide guidance and advice on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of concussive and other head injuries in student athletes.

Formed in December 2010 to determine how the Ivy League could take a leadership role in trying to limit concussive hits in football, the committee was co-chaired by Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim and Cornell President David J. Skorton, both medical doctors, and counted among its members various Ivy League head football coaches, administrators, expert consultants, team physicians, and athletic trainers, including Eric Laudano, M.H.S., A.T.C., head athletic trainer at the University of Pennsylvania and MomsTeam expert.

It is up to parents to do whatever they can to make sure that their child's coach does not continue to convey the message to athletes that there will be negative consequences to concussion reporting by removing them from a starting position, reducing future playing time, or inferring that reporting concussive symptoms made them «weak», but, instead, creates an environment in which athletes feel safe in honestly self - reporting experiencing concussion symptoms or reporting that a teammate is displaying signs of concussion (and reinforcing that message at home)

In a posting on a MomsTEAM forum, she argued that, «while a helmet may not save you from a concussive collision, it most certainly [would] save you from a ball to the back of the head.

Installed in a player's helmet, the sensor triggers an alert on a smart phone any time a player suffers an «at risk» hit that may be concussive.

Its reliability in detecting concussive impacts is also being studied by biomechanical engineers at McGill University in Montreal.

The consensus of scientific experts agree that rotational accelerations are involved in many, if not almost all, concussive events, although no correlated injury threshold for rotational accelerations has been found.

There are lots of companies which have already brought or will be bringing hit sensors to the market, and I am excited about their potential in revolutionizing the identification of concussive injury, which could go a long way to making the sport safer, in my view.

Patients with suspected concussive injury are categorized as having mild traumatic brain injury, or mTBI if, when they are first seen by an emergency medicine provider, they receive a score of 14 - 15 on the 15 - point Glasgow Coma Scale, which is used to determine level of consciousness based on responses to various stimuli:

Again, while I am not a scientist or medical doctor, I don't necessarily agree, especially if the amount of what Bob Cantu calls «total brain trauma» can be significantly reduced through a combination of limits on full - contact practices and / or hit counts, rule changes, and if we do a better job of identifying concussive injury to get concussed players off the field (or ice, or field, or court, or pitch), and and hold kids out longer before they are allowed to return to play so the risk of reinjury is reduced as much as reasonably possible.

The study, «Polarity of varicosity initiation in central neuron mechanosensation,» which will be published June 12 in The Journal of Cell Biology, observes the swelling process in live cultured neurons and could lead to new ways of limiting the symptoms associated with concussive brain injuries.

But the effects of concussive impacts on neurons in the brain are poorly understood.

The Damage Done: While Concussive Hits Dominate the Debate, A Groundbreaking New Study Suggests That Minor Blows - And There Can Be Hundreds Each Game - Are Just As Traumatic.

As a result, an increasing number of experts are urging that the focus be on reducing the risk of concussions and sub-concussive brain trauma by reducing exposure to concussive and sub-concussive hits [24] that athletes sustain during contact and collision sports.

Once attached to a player's helmet (a hockey version is available now, versions for football, lacrosse, and ski and snowboard helmets will be introduced in 2012) The ShockboxTM sensor measures the G - Force of a hit to the helmet from any direction, and then sends the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to the athletic trainer, coach or parent's smart phone to alert them when the athlete suffers a traumatic head impact that may be concussive so they can be removed from the game or practice for evaluation on the sideline using standard concussion assessment tools, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Devick test.

High school athletics coaches in Washington State are now receiving substantial concussion education and are demonstrating good knowledge about concussions, but little impact is being felt on the proportion of athletes playing with concussive symptoms, according to the two studies published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

High school athletics coaches in Washington State are now receiving substantial concussion education and are demonstrating good knowledge about concussions, but little impact is being felt on the proportion of athletes playing with concussive symptoms, according to two studies published this month in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Qualitative Study of Barriers to Concussive Symptom Reporting in High School Athletics.

Coaches, consumers and parents should be aware that while the STAR rating system suggests the purchase of specific football helmets, scientific evidence does not support the claim that a particular helmet brand or model is more effective in reducing the occurrence of concussive events.

By Seacoastonline.com The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1.6 million to 3.8 million sports - related concussive injuries occur annually in the United States and account for 5 percent to 9 percent of all sport injuries.

The NOCSAE action to move forward the development of a more comprehensive helmet standard was taken on the heels of new NOCSAE - funded research which identified brain tissue response from a concussive event and the development of a new method to test helmets which replicates some of the rotational forces involved in a concussion.

Among all trauma patients, the severity of concussive symptoms correlated with severity of disconjugacy.

The scientists compared that tissue with brain tissue samples from three young amateur American football players and a professional wrestler, all of whom had a history of repetitive concussive injury, and with four samples from comparably aged control subjects with no history of blast exposure, concussive injury or neurological disease.

Researchers have now found an even more serious and debilitating mental condition, known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), in veterans, particularly those injured by the concussive force of bomb blasts.

Researchers found that multiple TBIs also were associated with a significant increase in other psychological symptoms already tied to single traumatic head injuries, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD, and the severity of the concussive symptoms.

In the current study, the researchers found that males were significantly more likely than females to experience either retrograde or anterograde amnesia associated with a concussive injury than females.

Is it a coincidence that while concussive incidents continue to rise, so does the rate of Alzheimer's Disease as well as other epigenetically - caused conditions like cancer?

Concussive Blast — Useful if your going to be making a run for it, as it will launch the enemies across the map until they hit a wall.

Other super-combo weapons include the «Ultimate Powershout, a deadly concussive horn made of traffic cones; the Ultimate Grim Reaper, a flaming scythe made of a katana sword, a scythe, a gas canister and a mask; and the Massive Bomb, a mini-nuke that obliterates every zombie in your vicinity.»

In the comics, Danvers discovers that she has superhuman strength, the power of flight, and the ability to wield concussive force blasts after her body was fused with the DNA from a shapeshifting Kree being.