Has it made high
school athletes study harder?
Not exact matches
The challenge I often face in my practice is how to implement cognitive rest for concussed high
school and college
athletes who are engaged in regular classwork and
study.
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.
cheerleading ranks 18th out of 22 high
school sports
studied in terms of injury rate, but, ranked second - behind only gymnastics - in the proportion of injuries that resulted in an
athlete being benched for at least three weeks or for the entire season.
The
study found that concussions were the most common injury, accounting for three in ten of all cheerleading injuries (followed by ligament sprains, muscle strains and fractures), but that concussion rates were significantly lower in cheerleading (2.2 per 10,000
athlete - exposures) than all other high
school sports combined (3.8 per 10,000 exposures) and all other girls» sports combined (2.7 per 10,000 exposures).
Analyzing data from 2009 to 2014, researchers found that cheerleading ranks 18th out of 22 high
school sports
studied in terms of injury rate, but, ranked second - behind only gymnastics - in the proportion of injuries that resulted in an
athlete being benched for at least three weeks or for the entire season.
A former NCAA
athlete and high
school social
studies teacher, Jim currently advises the Positive Coaching Alliance, working to transform youth sports by helping to create a more positive and character - building experience for young
athletes.
A 2014
study (1), however, found that, despite the 2010 endorsement of 6 national medical societies of a single PPE form as part of an effort to standardize the screening process, and nearly unanimous public support for PPE screening by a qualified health care professional before participation in a consistent manner across the country, the medical community is still largely unaware of national sports preparticipation physical evaluation guidelines and only 11 % of
athletes at US high
schools are guaranteed to receive a PPE fully consistent with the national standard.
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.
While the
study found that high
schools in the state were meeting the law's minimum guidelines - likely left purposefully vague as a necessary legislative compromise for an unfunded mandate - Chrisman and her co-authors thus expressed the hope that further revisions of the law would beef up the educational requirements for
athletes and parents.
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);
The findings by Register - Mihalik, Valovich McLeod and their colleagues also echo the findings of a 2013 qualitative
study of high
school athletes in Washington State
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.
High
school athletes suffer the most sport - related concussions, but concussions have doubled among younger
athletes in team sports, says a new
study.
Drawing material from the National Education Longitudinal
Study of 1988 (NELS - 88) and tracking a representative sample of students who were in 10th grade in 1990 and 12th grade in 1992, to see what was happening in their lives in 2000, the following was discovered in comparing high
school athletes to non-
athletes.
While
studies have not yet been performed using the K - D test in screening
athletes at the youth and high
school level, the long use of the test in diagnosing reading problems in children «gives me reason to be very optimistic that the test could help parents and coaches to determine whether an
athlete who has been hit may have suffered a concussion,» Dr. Balcer told MomsTeam.
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.)
The results of the research paper are consistent with those of a 2013
study which found that, while ACL injuries did not disproportionately affect female high
school athletes overall, girls were found to have a significantly higher ACL injury rate than boys in sex - comparable sports (soccer, basketball, and baseball / softball), with girls 2 times more likely to suffer an ACL injury playing soccer than any other sport, and 4 times more likely to sustain such an injury playing either soccer or basketball than volleyball or softball.
«The results of this
study demonstrate that the K - D test is an accurate and reliable method for identifying
athletes with head trauma, and is a strong candidate for a rapid sideline screening test for concussion, [with] particular relevance to contact sports including football, soccer, hockey, MMA and boxing,» wrote co-author, Dr. Laura J. Balcer of the Department of Neurology, Opthalmology, and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine.
So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado
School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preve
School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014
study on injuries in high
school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preve
school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from
athlete -
athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.
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.
Using DTI imaging technique, researchers at Indiana University
School of Medicine and the Geisel
School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, found in a 2013
study [16] significant differences in brain white matter of varsity football and hockey players compared with a group of non-contact-sport
athletes, with the number of times they were hit correlated with changes in the white matter.
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.
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.
New
studies indicate concussion education for high
school coaches is not making student
athletes safer
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.
The researchers in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
study showed that student
athletes who participate in girls soccer at
schools without access to an athletic trainer are exposed to an 8 times greater injury rate for concussion, a 5.7 times greater risk of recurrent injury, and a 1.73 times greater overall injury rate.
Previous
studies all looked at adults, but never at the 7.8 million high
school athletes in the nation — yet nutrition is especially important for these young
athletes, whose bodies are still growing while also handling the heavy physical demands of athletics.
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.
High
school athletes still suffer far more serious head injuries playing football and ice hockey than soccer, according to a
study by RIO, which tracks concussion rates in high
school sports.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- More than half of high
school athletes with concussions play despite their symptoms, and often their coaches aren't aware of the injury, according to a new
study.
The rate of concussions among U.S. high
school athletes has more than doubled between 2005 and 2012, with numbers now as high as 300,000 per year, according to a
study published this year in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.
Although awareness has increased about sports concussions, little research has been done on middle
school athletes, especially girls, noted study co-author Dr. Melissa Schiff, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health in Se
school athletes, especially girls, noted
study co-author Dr. Melissa Schiff, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington
School of Public Health in Se
School of Public Health in Seattle.
Comment: ATSNJ President John Furtado notes that «this
study highlights some of the issues that continue to affect our high
school athletes.
More than 9,000 high
school athletes are treated for exertional heat illness annually, according to a 2010
study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
«Concussion rate in high -
school athletes more than doubled in 7 - year period, U.S.
study finds.»
A recent
study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado
School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school ath
School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high
school ath
school athletes.
Concussion rates in U.S. high -
school athletes more than doubled between 2005 and 2012, according to a new national
study using data on nine team sports.
The
study looked at TBIs in high
school athletes that competed in at least one of nine sports (boys football, boys wrestling, girls volleyball, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls basketball, boys baseball, and girls softball) between fall 2005 through spring 2016.
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.
A
study of high
school and college
athletes.
«Our
study, which is the largest
study to date examining the topic of single sports specialization, provides a foundation for understanding current trends in specialization in youth sports,» said researcher, Patrick S. Buckley, MD of the Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. «Our results noted that current high
school athletes specialized, on average, two years earlier than current collegiate and professional
athletes.
Philip von Rosen's
studies include 680 elite
athletes representing 16 different sports at 24 such
schools around the country who have completed a series of surveys on injury occurrence and the volume and intensity of their training programmes.
Titled «Prevalence of Sport Specialization in High
School Athletics,» this one - year observational study found that high school athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large s
School Athletics,» this one - year observational
study found that high
school athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large s
school athletes from a smaller
school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large s
school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large
schoolschool.
Medha Krishen, Ilina's sister and a junior at Port Huron Northern High
School, also presented a
study that used an electronic stethoscope to screen student
athletes for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).