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Change in youth heading policy impacts soccer concussion reports In 2015, the USSF banned the use of the head to impact the ball in athletes younger than 10 years old. The header ban also limited ...
Footnotes Twitter @jonpatricios Contributors JSP conceived the format of the Sports Concussion Office Assessment Tool and created the first version (SCOAT6). The concept of the tool was presented at ...
Concussions decreased 17% compared to last season and 12% compared to the 2021-23 season average. This decrease builds on a record preseason, which had the fewest number of concussions in ...
The 2024 NFL season resulted in the league's lowest recorded concussion total since at least 2015, NFL executive Jeff Miller told reporters Thursday. Recorded concussions decreased 17 percent ...
Published: September 9, 2024 7:44pm EDT The movie Concussion brought the issue of CTE to the public’s attention.
This pales in comparison to the average of 226 concussions per year since 2015. Even the lowest recent year—172 concussions in 2020—is substantially higher than the earlier numbers.
“This study updates our understanding of concussion patterns in high school sports using injury surveillance data,” he said. “It adds to our existing understanding by providing the most ...
The NFL revealed exhaustive results of a concussion study spanning two seasons during a presentation Thursday, compiled with an eye toward converting the biomechanical information into innovative ...
Data compiled by QuintilesIMS Injury Surveillance and Analytics showed an 11.3 percent decrease in concussions from 2015 to 2016 (275 to 244) in data collected from all preseason and regular ...
Young males outpaced young females in terms of overall concussion diagnoses, going from 11.5 in 2010 to 17.0 in 2015, while females went from 6.1 to 13.3 over that same six-year span. The increase ...