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Head Impact Exposures and Neurologic Function in College Football and Soccer Players

Head Impact Exposures and Neurologic Function in College Football and Soccer Players PDF Author: Chelsea Best
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ISBN: 9781369116229
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Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Objective: To examine the relationship between repeated head impacts and neurologic function through a clinical multifaceted testing battery over the course of one season in both male collegiate football players and female collegiate soccer players. Subjects: Thirty eight National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I athletes were used during this study. Two groups were broken into fifteen male (20.5±1.1 y/o, 186.4±7.3 cm, 107.3±17.1 kg) and eighteen female (19.4±1.2 y/o, 167.6±4.2 cm, 61.2±5.4 kg) student athletes Design and Setting: This was a prospective longitudinal study. Associations between sport and time were calculated by a 2x2 repeated measures ANOVA. A total of 9 ANOVAs were performed with a simple linear regression used to evaluate head impact kinematics (number of impacts, cumulative impacts, mean linear acceleration). Testing occurred prior to the start of preseason and within one week after the end of the season for each team. Measurements: Testing consisted of the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC), Balance Error Scoring System (BESS), King-Devick (KD), Clinical Reaction Time (CRT), and Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT). Football and women’s soccer head impacts and accelerations were measured through the Head Impact Telemetry System (HITS) sensors and Triax system head accelerometers, respectively. Results: There were no significant differences for either sport when comparing preseason to post-season test scores. No predictive values were significant after the course of a full season for either sport. Our results calculated 4,178 impacts total for all football participants and 3,176 cumulative impacts for all women’s soccer participants, with mean accelerations of 23.8g and 16.3g, respectively. Conclusions: Future research is needed to assess prolonged participation over multiple seasons in male and female contact sports and the risk of neurocognitive deficits after multiple seasons. One athletic season may not be long enough to determine any deficits through a concussion assessment battery.