Head Injuries in Contact Sports – Literature Review by Kacper Hoksa, Aleksandra Broda, Krzysztof Jodłowski, Ewa Dubniewicz, Paula Majewska, Alicja Staszek, Wiktoria Łoskot, Mateusz Matczak, Jan Szwech, Karol Jasiński

“…These sports include not only martial arts such as boxing, judo, or MMA but also team sports, including some of the most popular ones like soccer, rugby, American football, and hockey. The aim of this paper is to review the available literature on the frequency and mechanisms of head and neck injuries in various sports, as well as to propose possible methods for preventing these injuries and rehabilitation after they occur. …”
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Mechanisms of team-sport-related brain injuries in children 5 to 19 years old: opportunities for prevention. by Michael D Cusimano, Newton Cho, Khizer Amin, Mariam Shirazi, Steven R McFaull, Minh T Do, Matthew C Wong, Kelly Russell

“…The Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP) database was searched for brain injury cases among 5-19 year-olds playing ice hockey, soccer, American football (football), basketball, baseball, or rugby between 1990 and 2009. …”
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Pass plays and right-handed gloves: revising American sporting terms in OED3 by Sheidlower, J

“…The definitions of many baseball and American football terms in OED2 were not strong, though in many cases it turned out that this was not due to erroneous treatment on the part of the original editors, but because the concepts involved were so foreign to British speakers that there was no straightforward way to explain them. …”

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in blast-exposed military veterans and a blast neurotrauma mouse model. by Goldstein, L, Fisher, A, Tagge, C, Zhang, X, Velisek, L, Sullivan, J, Upreti, C, Kracht, J, Ericsson, M, Wojnarowicz, M, Goletiani, C, Maglakelidze, G, Casey, N, Moncaster, J, Minaeva, O, Moir, R, Nowinski, C, Stern, R, Cantu, R, Geiling, J, Blusztajn, J, Wolozin, B, Ikezu, T, Stein, T, Budson, A

“…We found evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a tau protein-linked neurodegenerative disease, that was similar to the CTE neuropathology observed in young amateur American football players and a professional wrestler with histories of concussive injuries. …”

Stop it! Relationship between sport expertise and response inhibition in elite athletes by Marie-Therese Fleddermann, Lukas Reichert, Björn Wieland, Karen Zentgraf

“…Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether motor inhibition performance is a differential feature among elite athletes, and whether inhibition performance increases with greater expertise.MethodsIn total of 106 elite athletes (ice hockey, basketball, volleyball, American football, handball, and soccer) completed a PC-based procedure to determine motor inhibition performance using the stop-signal reaction time (SSRT) task for hands and feet. …”
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Nutrition practices and knowledge among NCAA Division III football players by Elizabeth Lea Abbey, Cynthia Joy Wright, Christina M. Kirkpatrick

“…Background Participation in collegiate American football is physically demanding and may have long-term health implications, particularly in relation to cardiovascular and neurological health. …”
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Trends in dietary supplement use among athletes selected for doping controls by Fredrik Lauritzen, Astrid Gjelstad, Astrid Gjelstad

“…DS with high risk of containing prohibited substances were mostly seen in sport disciplines requiring a high degree of specialization in strength/power, including powerlifting and weightlifting, as well as in some team sports, such as cheerleading and american football.…”
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Interface astrogliosis in contact sport head impacts and military blast exposure by Katharine J. Babcock, Bobak Abdolmohammadi, Patrick T. Kiernan, Ian Mahar, Jonathan D. Cherry, Victor E. Alvarez, Lee E. Goldstein, Thor D. Stein, Ann C. McKee, Bertrand R. Huber

“…We compared postmortem brain tissue from former military veterans with a history of blast exposure with and without a neuropathological diagnosis of CTE, former American football players with a history of RHI with and without a neuropathological diagnosis of CTE, and control donors without a history of blast, RHI exposure or CTE diagnosis. …”
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Mechanical Structural Design of a MEMS-Based Piezoresistive Accelerometer for Head Injuries Monitoring: A Computational Analysis by Increments of the Sensor Mass Moment of Inertia by Marco Messina, James Njuguna, Chrysovalantis Palas

“…This work focuses on the proof-mass mechanical structural design improvement of a tri-axial piezoresistive accelerometer specifically designed for head injuries monitoring where medium-G impacts are common; for example, in sports such as racing cars or American Football. The device requires the highest sensitivity achievable with a single proof-mass approach, and a very low error (<1%) as the accuracy for these types of applications is paramount. …”
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Changes in Resting Salivary Testosterone, Cortisol and Interleukin-6 as Biomarkers of Overtraining by Travis Anderson, Simon Haake, Amy R. Lane, Anthony C. Hackney

“…This study determined if resting levels of salivary IL-6, T, and C change during a pre-season resistance training (RT) program in 20 Division I American football players (mean ± SD: age = 19.1 ± 1.1 years; height = 185.4 ± 6.7 cm; mass = 102.0 ± 22.2 kg; body fat = 14.7 ± 7.6%). 1RM squat, bench press and Olympic-style clean, IL-6, C and T were assessed at baseline (WK1), week 4 (WK4), week 6 (WK6) along with psychological status (PS) to determine affective state. …”
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Sideline Management of Syndesmotic Injuries in the Athlete: Evaluation, Management, and Return to Play by Patrick F. Szukics DO, Daniel. P. Murray MD, Jose Robaina MD, Taylor Potter ATC, Luis Vargas MD, Cary Chapman MD, Gautam Yagnik MD

“…Results: Syndesmotic injuries, colloquially termed high ankle sprains , pose significant challenges for medical professionals, especially in high-impact sports such as American football. Clinical evaluation, including specific tests and imaging techniques, is crucial for accurate diagnosis. …”
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Sporting tournaments and changed birth rates 9 months later: a systematic review by Gwinyai Masukume, Victor Grech, Margaret Ryan

“…With a few exceptions, major American football, Association football (soccer) and Rugby apex tournaments in Africa, North America, Asia and Europe were associated with increases in the number of babies born and/or in the birth sex ratio 9(±1) months following notable team wins and/or hosting the tournament. …”
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A New Bivariate Survival Model: The Marshall-Olkin Bivariate Exponentiated Lomax Distribution with Modeling Bivariate Football Scoring Data by Sulafah M. S. Binhimd, Zakiah I. Kalantan, Abeer A. EL-Helbawy, Gannat R. AL-Dayian, Ahlam A. M. Mahmoud, Reda M. Refaey, Mervat K. Abd Elaal

“…Furthermore, the real data set used in this paper comprises the scoring times from 42 American Football League matches that took place over three consecutive independent weekends in 1986. …”
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Risk Factors Associated with New Onset of Shoulder Pain and Injury Among the Athletic Population: A Systematic Review of the Literature by Paul Salamh, Garrett Bullock, Rachel Chester, Helena Daniell, Chad Cook, Matthew DeLang, Hannah-Rose Tucker, Douglas Walker, Jeremy Lewis

“…A total of four studies investigated baseball, five handball, three swimming, two tennis, two military, one cricket, one American football, and one with multiple sports, totaling 7,802 athletes. …”
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“Take a Knee” Protests in Professional Sports: An Empirical Study about the Influence on Customer Loyalty to Nike in Germany by Carsten Giebe, Lana Löffler, Sandra Schneider

“…Furthermore, the article defines the moral role of individual athletes or teams of different sports using the example of American football and football (also known as soccer). …”
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Smart Textile Impact Sensor for e-Helmet to Measure Head Injury by Manob Jyoti Saikia, Arar Salim Alkhader

“…Concussions, a prevalent public health concern in the United States, often result from mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI), notably in sports such as American football. There is limited exploration of smart-textile-based sensors for measuring the head impacts associated with concussions in sports and recreational activities. …”
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Effects of high intensity deadlift on standing long jump ability by Teag Whiting, Alan Bishop, Chad Harris, Joseph Berning, Kent J. Adams, Mark DeBeliso

“…Twenty NCAA Division I male North American football players participated in the study (age=20.3±2.3 years, height=183.5±6.3 cm, mass=96.3±17.1 kg). …”
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Korean Translation and Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 6th Edition (SCAT6): Reliability and Validity by SoYoung Ahn, Ji-won Seo, Nur Afiqah Binti Zulkifli, Wook Song

“…METHODS Translation and cultural adaptation involved seven stages, namely initial translation, integration of translation, back translation, validation with five expert committees, pre-testing with 12 rugby athletes, finalization, and a test-retest with 30 rugby and American-football athletes. Alternative tests were conducted for the Months In Reverse Order Test due to the naming differences between English and Korean. …”
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Survey on Video-Based Biomechanics and Biometry Tools for Fracture and Injury Assessment in Sports by Vanessa E. Ortiz-Padilla, Mauricio A. Ramírez-Moreno, Gerardo Presbítero-Espinosa, Ricardo A. Ramírez-Mendoza, Jorge de J. Lozoya-Santos

“…The most common application of the study of biomechanics using this technique is sports, where the most reported applications are american football, soccer, basketball, baseball, jumping, among others. …”
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Using Oculomotor Features to Predict Changes in Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter and ImPACT Scores From Contact-Sport Athletes by Rao, Hrishikesh M., Yuditskaya, Sophia, Williamson, James R., Vian, Trina R., Lacirignola, Joseph J., Shenk, Trey E., Talavage, Thomas M., Heaton, Kristin J., Quatieri, Thomas F.

“…Thirty-one high school American football and soccer athletes were tracked through the course of a sports season. …”
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