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Emotional Responses Following Sports-Related Concussion; A Pilot Study With Controls, Eva Keatley
Emotional Responses Following Sports-Related Concussion; A Pilot Study With Controls, Eva Keatley
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Mild traumatic brain injury is associated with new onset emotional symptoms (Caroll et al., 2014; Konrad et al., 2011). This study will address a gap in the literature by examining the relationship between mTBI, autonomic arousal, and emotional symptoms in the acute phase of a concussion in athletes. In this pilot study, skin conduction and heart rate changes in response to emotional stimuli were measured in 25 undergraduate controls. Results indicate that emotional valence of facial expressions did not elicit the expected differential physiological responses as suggested by previous research, but habituation to an acoustic startle over repeated exposures was …
Test-Retest Of The Impact In A Sample Of Healthy Young Athletes, Amanda Marion O'Brien
Test-Retest Of The Impact In A Sample Of Healthy Young Athletes, Amanda Marion O'Brien
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Baseline neurocognitive assessments are recommended to assist with concussion management in athletes, but there is no research available regarding the psychometric properties of the Immediate Post-concussion Assessment & Cognitive Testing (ImPACT), the most widely used assessment tool, in children younger than high-school age despite its assertion that it can be used as young as 11 years old. The purpose of the present study was to determine the two-week test-retest reliability of the ImPACT neurocognitive test in a healthy sample of young athletes. Participants (n=40) included healthy athletes ages 10 through 14 who were asked to complete the baseline ImPACT neurocognitive …
Effect Of Duration Of Play On Injury Rate In Men's And Women's Ncaa Sport, John Craig Harwood
Effect Of Duration Of Play On Injury Rate In Men's And Women's Ncaa Sport, John Craig Harwood
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Injury rates increase with added athletic exposures. Mental and physical fatigue is potentially a component of this increase. However, large scale exposure-related injury trends by injury type, sport and sex are scarce. Consequently, the aim of this thesis was to determine whether injury rates are higher later in games and whether these rates vary with respect to sport, injury type and sex. NCAA injury data collected by the Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention indicate that relative injury frequency increases in subsequent periods and this increase is uniform across sports. Subsequent period relative injury frequencies were greater in …