Browsing by Subject "Sport"

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    The National Athletic Treatment, Injury and Outcomes Network (NATION): Methods of the Surveillance Program, 2011-2012 Through 2013-2014
    (National Athletic Trainers' Association, 2015-08) Dompier, Thomas P.; Marshall, Stephen W.; Kerr, Zachary Y.; Hayden, Ross; Department of Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
    CONTEXT: Previous epidemiologic researchers have examined time-loss (TL) injuries in high school student-athletes, but little is known about the frequency of non-time-loss (NTL) injuries in these athletes. OBJECTIVE: To describe the methods of the National Athletic Treatment, Injury and Outcomes Network (NATION) Surveillance Program and provide descriptive epidemiology of TL and NTL injuries across athletes in 27 high school sports. DESIGN: Descriptive epidemiology study. SETTING: Aggregate injury and exposure data collected from 147 high schools in 26 states. PATIENTS OR OTHER PARTICIPANTS: High school student-athletes participating in 13 boys' sports and 14 girls' sports during the 2011-2012 through 2013-2014 academic years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Athletic trainers documented injuries and exposures using commercially available injury-tracking software packages. Standard injury-tracking software was modified by the software vendors to conform to the surveillance needs of this project. The modified software exported a set of common data elements, stripped of personally identifiable information, to a centralized automated verification and validation system before they were included in the centralized research database. Dependent measures were injury and exposure frequencies and injury rates with 95% confidence intervals stratified by sport, sex, and injury type (TL or NTL). RESULTS: Over the 3-year period, a total of 2337 team seasons across 27 sports resulted in 47 014 injuries and 5 146 355 athlete-exposures. The NTL injuries accounted for 38 765 (82.45%) and TL injuries for 8249 (17.55%) of the total. CONCLUSIONS: The NTL injuries accounted for a substantial amount of the total number of injuries sustained by high school student-athletes. This project demonstrates the feasibility of creating large-scale injury surveillance systems using commercially available injury-tracking software.
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    Peace and Sport: Challenging Limitations Across the Sport for Development and Peace Sector
    (2012-10-16) Bellotti, Jeremy Aaron; McCormick, John S.; Pegg, Scott M.; Snodgrass, Michael D.
    This paper examines an international SDP NGO in relation to the most challenging limitations facing the current Sport for Development and Peace sector. Employing an existing academic framework of the contemporary SDP sector, this case study explores under what conditions an SDP organization might begin to emancipate themselves from such limitations.
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    Prospective study of the association between sport-related concussion and brain morphometry (3T-MRI) in collegiate athletes: A study from the NCAA-DOD CARE Consortium
    (BMJ, 2021) Bobholz, Samuel A.; Brett, Benjamin L.; España, Lezlie Y.; Huber, Daniel L.; Mayer, Andrew R.; Harezlak, Jaroslaw; Broglio, Steven P.; McAllister, Thomas; McCrea, Michael A.; Meier, Timothy B.; CARE Consortium Investigators; Psychiatry, School of Medicine
    Objectives: To determine the acute and early long-term associations of sport-related concussion (SRC) and subcortical and cortical structures in collegiate contact sport athletes. Methods: Athletes with a recent SRC (n=99) and matched contact (n=91) and non-contact sport controls (n=95) completed up to four neuroimaging sessions from 24 to 48 hours to 6 months postinjury. Subcortical volumes (amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus and dorsal striatum) and vertex-wise measurements of cortical thickness/volume were computed using FreeSurfer. Linear mixed-effects models examined the acute and longitudinal associations between concussion and structural metrics, controlling for intracranial volume (or mean thickness) and demographic variables (including prior concussions and sport exposure). Results: There were significant group-dependent changes in amygdala volumes across visits (p=0.041); this effect was driven by a trend for increased amygdala volume at 6 months relative to subacute visits in contact controls, with no differences in athletes with SRC. No differences were observed in any cortical metric (ie, thickness or volume) for primary or secondary analyses. Conclusion: A single SRC had minimal associations with grey matter structure across a 6-month time frame.
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    Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis Associated With Athletic Activity
    (Sage, 2023) Loder, Randall T.; Gunderson, Zachary J.; Sun, Seungyup; Liu, Raymond W.; Novais, Eduardo V.; Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine
    Background: Little data exist regarding the association of slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) and sporting activities. Hypothesis: There is no association between SCFE and sporting activities. Study design: Retrospective review of all SCFE cases at our institution from 2010 through March 2021. Level of evidence: Level 3. Methods: All patients with idiopathic SCFE were reviewed looking for the presence/absence of sporting activities and symptom onset. Also collected were the age, symptom duration, and weight/height of the patient, sex, race, and stable/unstable nature of the SCFE. The severity of the SCFE was measured using the lateral epiphyseal-shaft angle. Results: There were 193 children (110 boys, 83 girls) with idiopathic SCFEs. The SCFE was stable in 147, unstable in 45, and unknown in 1. The average age was 12.1 ± 1.8 years, average SCFE angle 38° ± 20° and symptom duration 4.0 ± 5.1 months. An association with a sporting activity was present in 64 (33%). The sporting activity was basketball (18), football (11), baseball/softball (10), and others (23). Football, basketball, and soccer predominated in boys, baseball and running sports were equal between boys and girls, and cheerleading/gymnastics/dancing predominated in girls. Differences showed that those involved in sports had a slightly lower body mass index (BMI) (88th percentile vs 95th percentile, P = 0.00). There were no differences between those involved and those not those involved in sporting activities for symptom duration, SCFE severity, sex, race, or stable/unstable SCFE type. Conclusion: Sporting activities are associated with the onset of symptoms in 1 of 3 of patients with SCFE, refuting the null hypothesis. Clinical relevance: A high level of suspicion for SCFE should be given when any peripubertal athlete presents with hip or knee pain regardless of BMI/obesity status, and appropriate imaging performed.