Sentences with phrase «school athletes reported»

The new study — which involved surveys of 503 high school, 856 collegiate and 1,731 professional athletes (3,090 athletes, total)-- also found that high school athletes reported a statistically higher incidence of sport - related, musculoskeletal injuries than college and professional athletes.

Not exact matches

While the public response to the report focused on the school's athletes, the report found that more than half of the students enrolled in the paper courses were nonathletes — many of them referred through the campus» fraternity system.

Prohibit schools from requiring athletes to report for home games earlier than four hours before the start of the competition.

North Carolina Tar Heels athletes were directed by their academic advisers into questionable classes in the school's African and Afro - American Studies department, according to a special subcommittee report.

This fall, the sports medicine physicians and athletic trainers at the Sports Medicine Center for Young Athletes will be implementing a new injury reporting system in the high schools that they cover in the Bay Area.

The case is scheduled to go to trial in December — though it could be delayed — meaning whatever magical fixes the DI board plans to implement from the blue - ribbon commission's report may only be in effect a year before the schools have to blow up their athlete compensation model and start from scratch.

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

Knowledge, Attitude, and Concussion - Reporting Behaviors Among High School Athletes: A Preliminary Study.

The good news is that football and soccer coaches at public high schools in Washington State nearly all reported completing the required concussion education annually, concussion knowledge among coaches was high, and nearly all reported being somewhat comfortable or very comfortable in deciding whether an athlete needed an additional evaluation for a suspected concussion.

While O'Kane said there was some evidence that concussion education could improve the percentage of athletes reporting concussions, pointing to a 2012 study [8] finding that high school athletes receiving concussion education were twice as likely to report symptoms to coaches compared with those with no education (72 % vs. 36 %), he acknowledged that a 2013 study [9](also by researchers at the University of Washington) found that many high school soccer players, despite understanding the symptoms of concussion and the potentially severe complications from playing with concussion, would continue to play despite symptoms.

58.6 % reported playing soccer while symptomatic (higher than studies of high school and college athletes finding between one - third and one - half reporting concussion symptoms for which they did not seek medical attention, largely because did not appreciate significance of injury or feared being withheld from play);

One 2013 study, for instance, found that high school athletes only reported 1 in 7 impacts they classified as «dings» or «bell - ringers,» many of which are likely concussions.

Echlin's comments are echoed in the findings of a 2013 quantitative study focusing on what drives the attitudes of high school athletes [1] towards reporting concussions («attitude study»), which found that coaches and teammates are the strongest influences on an athlete's intention to report concussion.

Using theory to understand high school aged athletes» intentions to report sport - related concussion: Implications for concussion education initiatives.

Using theory to understand high school aged athletes» intentions to report sport - related concussions: Implications for concussion education initiatives.

The critical importance of hydration for athletes was highlighted by the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research's Annual Survey of Football Injuries (1), which reported 5 heat - related deaths among high school football players in 2011, but only one in 2012.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 21-4-703 (2011) prohibits an athletic coach or trainer from allowing a student athlete to participate in a school athletic event on the same day that the athlete (1) exhibits signs, symptoms or behaviors consistent with a concussion or head injury after a coach, trainer, school official or student reports, observers or suspects that they have sustained a concussion or other head injury, or (2) has been diagnosed with a concussion or other head injury.

Code 167.775 requires any statewide athletic organization with public school membership to publish an annual report relating to the impact of concussions and head injuries on student athletes.

The two most recent studies of concussion rates among high school athletes (1,2) report concussion rates in girl's lacrosse essentially tied with girl's soccer for the highest among girl's sports, nearly as high as the concussion rate in boy's lacrosse (not statistically different in terms of rates), and almost double the rate of the girl's sport with the next highest concussion rate (basketball).

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

In 2008, I commented that «Too many young athletes — from 9 - year old cheerleaders to star middies on high school Lacrosse teams — are still failing to self - report their symptoms to the coach, sideline medical staff, their friends or even their parents, forcing clinicians to try to manage concussions somewhat in the dark.»

Access to an athletic trainer was not linked to high school athletes» concussion - reporting percentages.

Overall, reported concussions rates are more frequent among high school athletes than college athletes in some sports — including football, men's lacrosse and soccer, and baseball; higher for competition than practice (except for cheerleading); and highest in football, ice hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, soccer, and women's basketball.

Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes in cerebral function in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.

Again in British Columbia, it is equally interesting to look at the awards and honors given to a high - school teacher and basketball coach, who according to investigative journalist Robert Cribb's March 2015 article, «Teachers» bullying scarred us say Student Athletes,» in the Toronto Star had multiple athletes report that he was bullying tAthletes,» in the Toronto Star had multiple athletes report that he was bullying tathletes report that he was bullying them (3).

As with magnitude, the impact frequency reported in the current study fell between those of 6 - to 9 - year - olds and high school athletes, with the average player experiencing 240 impacts over the course of a season compared to 107 impacts per season for 6 - to 9 - year - old players, and 565 for high school players.

One of the media reports I read criticizing the calorie limit used as an example a high school athlete who skips breakfast because he can't eat before he lifts weights, and then he grabs a white flour bagel and Gatorade after lifting.

The articles, «The Effect of Coach Education on Reporting of Concussions Among High School Athletes After Passage of a Concussion Law» and «Implementation of Concussion Legislation and Extent of Concussion education for Athletes, Parents, and Coaches in Washington State,» are available online through the journal: http://ajs.sagepub.com/.

Maybe not: A major report says far too little is known about the risks in youth sports, especially for athletes who suit up before high school.

A national study of concussions reported by high school athletes shows a dramatic increase over the last few years.

Despite an increase in media attention, as well as national and local efforts to educate athletes on the potential dangers of traumatic brain injuries, a new study found that many high school football players are not concerned about the long - term effects of concussions and don't report their own concussion symptoms because they fear exclusion from play.

Researchers collected data from 100 high schools and found that two years after a reported concussion, female athletes reported more drowsiness and sensitivity to noise than male athletes.

High schools within the South Bend (Ind.) Community School Corporation (SBCSC), with approximately 1,000 football - playing student - athletes reported concussions from football to decline by 40 percent from 2014 to 2015, the first year the school system implemented Heads Up Football district -School Corporation (SBCSC), with approximately 1,000 football - playing student - athletes reported concussions from football to decline by 40 percent from 2014 to 2015, the first year the school system implemented Heads Up Football district -school system implemented Heads Up Football district - wide.

More than 2 1/2 years after these laws went on the books, repeat concussions began to decline among high school athletes, researchers report online October 19 in the American Journal of Public Health.

Researchers need to do more systematic study of concussions in young athletes, such as these high school football players in Arkansas, a new report finds.

They found that participating schools reported 2,900 football concussions per 3,528,790 «athletic exposures» (AE) or one athlete participating in one practice or competition.

The researchers found that student - athletes reported feeling uncertain in three areas: personal uncertainty, such as uncertainty about balancing school work and sports; social uncertainty, such as uncertainty related to who their «real» friends are; and future uncertainty, such as uncertainty concerning their post-collegiate careers and whether the time they spend pursuing athletics will hurt their career prospects.

Brain bank researchers previously reported that the earliest known evidence of CTE was found in a high school athlete who played football and other sports who died at age 18.

«High school athletes with a history of concussion report depression symptoms at the same rate as athletes who have never sustained a concussion,» Schwarz said.

And a second study, involving more than 1,200 high school athletes, found no differences in self - reported quality of life over two years of follow - up, regardless of whether or not they'd had a concussion.

The Chicago Tribune reports that eSports has been gaining traction in high school — and if you add VR into the mix, not only will these non-traditional athletes reap the benefits of physical exercise, but they can also enjoy the benefits of combining education and interscholastic sports as well.

A large share of cases involved high school students and athletes who played contact sports, but infections were reported at the elementary - and middle - school - levels as well.

Given that football is the most popular high school sport — with more than 1 million athletes putting on a team jersey — the reported drop in participation is almost miniscule: less than 26,000 players over five years.

A gene mutation responsible for a devastating heart disease in cats - also a leading cause of sudden death in young athletes - was identified by a research team that included veterinary heart specialists at the School of Veterinary Medicine; this was the first report of a spontaneous genetic mutation causing any type of heart disease in a cat or dog.

Sample resumes in this field highlight such responsibilities as managing attendance for all classes and in training; drafting a daily status report with the head athletic trainer on student - athletes» progress or rehab; and communicating with the team and staff on issues within the team, athletic department and school.