Sentences with word «subconcussive»

By analyzing athlete data on the Head Case Website, the sports community can continue to gain a better understanding of repetitive subconcussive impacts, as well as concussion symptoms and the events that led to them.

Less contact during practice could mean a lot less exposure to head injuries among young football players and the kind of repetitive subconcussive blows that some researchers suggest can lead to long - term brain injury, but does not result in exposure to higher impact hits during games, says a new study.

The reduction of collisions with low g - forces is just as important, he says, given that repeated subconcussive hits can add up over time and lower the threshold for a concussion, until a relatively mild blow is enough to cause a disproportionate amount of damage.

But scientists have worried that cumulative damage from heading's repeated subconcussive impacts might be clinically significant.

But not all of these persons had a history of concussion and this suggests that undiagnosed subconcussive blows may also contribute to CTE, they explain, and call for more research into how the condition develops and to determine other risk factors.

The authors called for additional study to provide proof of neuropsychological consequences of subconcussive soccer - related head injuries.

These studies could teach us more about why and how concussions tend to occur, as well as how subconcussive blows — a hit to the head that doesn't result in a concussion — affect an athlete over a long period of time.

It was a cute, almost harmless - sounding description of what was often a concussion or a worrying subconcussive blow to the head.

People with mild concussions can display no symptoms despite damage to the brain, and development of CTE is the cumulation of many subconcussive impacts to the brain.

However, evidence is building — particularly among professional athletes — that subconcussive events have an effect on the brain.

The development of new technologies that can measure subconcussive blows would benefit research, add the authors.

While more research is needed, senior author Nicholas Port said the findings contribute important information to research on subconcussive blows — or «microconcussions» — that are common in sports such as football, soccer, ice hockey, snowboarding and skiing.

We believe this stalk is damaged during repeated head traumas and even subconcussive impacts.

A number of top concussion researchers also believe that real - time monitoring of impacts could help reduce the total amount of brain trauma from repeated subconcussive blows by identifying athletes sustaining a large number of such hits due to improper blocking or tackling technique.

Attorneys representing all current and former NCAA student - athletes announced date changes made by the court, affecting the concussions settlement that will provide a 50 - year medical - monitoring program for student - athletes to screen for post-concussion syndrome and early - onset neurodegenerative disease that may have resulted from concussions or the accumulation of subconcussive hits while playing NCAA sports.

Talavage said that, when one of the offensive lineman who was found to have been functionally impaired after sustaining a high number of subconcussive blows - impairment which persisted beyond the season - decided to change his technique, he experienced a drastic reduction in the number of blows he sustained to the top front of his head and a moderate reduction in the total number of helmet hits.

(d) There is growing support in multiple studies that repetitive subconcussive blows may be problematic for increasing concussion symptoms, and possibly long - term neurological impairment.

Reducing heading opportunities in practice may be important with respect to potential problems that develop from repetitive subconcussive blows, but would not be likely to impact greatly concussion incidence.

A 50 - year medical monitoring program that will screen for post-concussion syndrome and early - onset neurodegenerative disease that may have resulted from concussions or the accumulation of subconcussive hits while playing NCAA sports.

«We are not sure whether this indicates differences among individuals in symptoms - reporting or subconcussive effects of primary blast.

«The differences in this study may reflect a lifetime exposure of subconcussive blows to the head, or they could simply be the result of playing a visually demanding sport where you're constantly using your hands and tracking the ball.»

The contact sport players did not have a history of concussion, but these sports are known to lead to repeat subconcussive blows.

CTE has been found in amateur and professional athletes, members of the military and others who experienced repeated head injuries, including concussions and subconcussive trauma.

The brains of football players, left, showed significantly higher areas of activation when presented a visual task compared to the brains of cross-country runners, right, who are not typically exposed to subconcussive blows to the head.

«The differences in this study may reflect a lifetime exposure of subconcussive blows to the head, or they could simply be the result of playing a visually demanding sport where you're constantly using your hands and tracking the ball,» he explained.

Now we are more aware of the increasing effects of impacts to the head that are just below the level of concussion, or subconcussive impacts, especially in adolescent athletes.