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Parental Perceptions Of The Risks And Rewards Of Youth Tackle Football, Laurel Whalen
Parental Perceptions Of The Risks And Rewards Of Youth Tackle Football, Laurel Whalen
Wayne State University Dissertations
Football is one of the most popular sports in the United States, despite a high risk of injury associated with the game. The issue of sports-related concussion (SRC) in football has garnered widespread attention in both the media and in scholarly literature as a result of documentaries, movies, and popular journal articles highlighting the connection between former professional football players and the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE (McKee et al., 2013; Mez, Daneshvar, Kiernan, et al., 2017). Although some studies have identified extremely few concussions in youth football, others have reported rates of concussion (Kontos, Elbin, Fazio-Sumrock, et …
The Effects Of Concussion On Tandem Gait Performance With Secondary Cognitive Tasks, Angel Lomeli
The Effects Of Concussion On Tandem Gait Performance With Secondary Cognitive Tasks, Angel Lomeli
Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects
Identifying concussions occurs with a battery of cognitive and motor tests. However, these tests are performed independently as primary tasks. Research has demonstrated amplified motor differences due to concussion when performing simultaneous cognitive tasks (i.e. dual-tasks). The Tandem Gait Test (TGT) is used in concussion assessment and has only moderate sensitivity and specificity alone. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of concussion on TGT performance with secondary cognitive tasks. Six concussed participants (age 22.6 ± 2.8) and fourteen healthy participants (age 23.8 ± 2.7) were recruited through the North Coast Concussion Program within 13 days (7 …