Brain Concussion
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Brain Concussion
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Concussion Tied to Depression in Ex-N.F.L. Players "The study, which will appear in the journal of the American College of Sports Medicine, found that of the 595 players who recalled sustaining three or more concussions on the football field, 20.2 percent said they had been found to have depression. That is three times the rate of players who have not sustained concussions."
Dark Days Follow Hard-Hitting Career in N.F.L "Mr. Johnson is among a growing number of former players and their relatives who are questioning whether their serious health issues are related to injuries they sustained and the treatment they received as players. Mr. Johnson said he decided to go public with his story after reading in The New York Times two weeks ago about Andre Waters, the former Philadelphia Eagles player who committed suicide last November and was later determined to have had significant brain damage caused by football-related concussions."
Silence on Concussions Raises Risks of Injury
Steinberg Labels Concussions "Time Bomb" "Other studies showed that in cases where athletes had three or more concussions over their lifetimes, they were five times more at risk for early onset Alzheimer's disease, three times more at risk of significant memory loss and four times more likely to have severely elevated depression."
ARTICLES:
10 Tips to Reduce the Severity of Sport-Related Concussion in High School and College Athletics
CDC - Heads Up: Brain Injury in Your Practice A Tool Kit for Physicians
CDC - Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Concussion in professional football: biomechanics of the struck player--part 14. (Neurosurgery. 2007)
Differential rate of recovery in athletes after first and second concussion episodes. (Neurosurgery. 2007) "CONCLUSION: The findings of this study confirm our previous research indicating the presence of long-term residual visual-motor disintegration in concussed individuals with normal neuropsychological measures. Most importantly, athletes with a history of previous concussion demonstrate significantly slower rates of recovery of neurological functions after the second episode of MTBI."
Long-term and cumulative effects of sports concussion on motor cortex inhibition. (Neurosurgery. 2007) "CONCLUSION: Findings from this study indicate that sports-related concussions result in long-term motor system dysfunctions that seem to be attributable to subclinical intracortical inhibitory system abnormalities. This study also shows that sustaining subsequent concussions exacerbates this deficit, and thus provides additional support for the contention that the adverse effects of sports-related concussions on intracortical inhibitory systems are cumulative."
Pediatric concussions in sports; a simple and rapid assessment tool for concussive injury in children and adults. (Childs Nerv Syst. 2007)
Post concussion syndrome ebb and flow: Longitudinal effects and management. (NeuroRehabilitation. 2007) "The PCS group considered themselves to be different people after trauma. They had different goals, changing lifestyle, relationships and employment and were more often in a dependent state. Comparability with other conditions such as PTSD and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) was demonstrated by individuals who experienced persistent and invasive post concussion symptoms."
Predicting slow recovery from sport-related concussion: the new simple-complex distinction. (Clin J Sport Med. 2007) "CONCLUSIONS: This study provides evidence that supports and refutes the clinical usefulness of the new simple-complex concussion classification system."
Prolonged Neuropsychological Impairments Following a First Concussion in Female University Soccer Athletes. (Clin J Sport Med. 2007) "CONCLUSIONS:: The results of this study suggest that cognitive functions related to cognitive processing speed are most vulnerable to a sports-related concussion and are still impaired for a half year after injury in university-level female soccer players."
Recurrent Concussion and Risk of Depression in Retired Professional Football Players. (Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 2007)
SENSITIVITY OF THE CONCUSSION ASSESSMENT BATTERY. (Neurosurgery. 2007)
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