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Traumatic brain injury reduction in athletes by neck strengthening (TRAIN)
Reporting of sports-related concussions (SRCs) has risen dramatically over the last decade, increasing awareness of the need for treatment and prevention of SRCs. To date most prevention studies have focused on equipment and rule changes to sports in order to reduce the risk of injury. However, incr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6037875/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29998204 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2018.06.007 |
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author | Toninato, Joseph Casey, Hannah Uppal, Mohit Abdallah, Tessneem Bergman, Thomas Eckner, JamesT. Samadani, Uzma |
author_facet | Toninato, Joseph Casey, Hannah Uppal, Mohit Abdallah, Tessneem Bergman, Thomas Eckner, JamesT. Samadani, Uzma |
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description | Reporting of sports-related concussions (SRCs) has risen dramatically over the last decade, increasing awareness of the need for treatment and prevention of SRCs. To date most prevention studies have focused on equipment and rule changes to sports in order to reduce the risk of injury. However, increased neck strength has been shown to be a predictor of concussion rate. In the TRAIN study, student-athletes will follow a simple neck strengthening program over the course of three years in order to better understand the relationship between neck strength and SRCs. Neck strength of all subjects will be measured at baseline and biannually over the course of the study using a novel protocol. Concussion severity and duration in any subject who incurs an SRC will be evaluated using the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 5th edition, a questionnaire based tool utilizing several tests that are commonly affected by concussion, and an automated eye tracking algorithm. Neck strength, and improvement of neck strength, will be compared between concussed and non-concussed athletes to determine if neck strength can indeed reduce risk of concussion. Neck strength will also be analyzed taking into account concussion severity and duration to find if a strengthening program can provide a protective factor to athletes. The study population will consist of student-athletes, ages 12–23, from local high schools and colleges. These athletes are involved in a range of both contact and non-contact sports. |
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spelling | pubmed-60378752018-07-11 Traumatic brain injury reduction in athletes by neck strengthening (TRAIN) Toninato, Joseph Casey, Hannah Uppal, Mohit Abdallah, Tessneem Bergman, Thomas Eckner, JamesT. Samadani, Uzma Contemp Clin Trials Commun Article Reporting of sports-related concussions (SRCs) has risen dramatically over the last decade, increasing awareness of the need for treatment and prevention of SRCs. To date most prevention studies have focused on equipment and rule changes to sports in order to reduce the risk of injury. However, increased neck strength has been shown to be a predictor of concussion rate. In the TRAIN study, student-athletes will follow a simple neck strengthening program over the course of three years in order to better understand the relationship between neck strength and SRCs. Neck strength of all subjects will be measured at baseline and biannually over the course of the study using a novel protocol. Concussion severity and duration in any subject who incurs an SRC will be evaluated using the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 5th edition, a questionnaire based tool utilizing several tests that are commonly affected by concussion, and an automated eye tracking algorithm. Neck strength, and improvement of neck strength, will be compared between concussed and non-concussed athletes to determine if neck strength can indeed reduce risk of concussion. Neck strength will also be analyzed taking into account concussion severity and duration to find if a strengthening program can provide a protective factor to athletes. The study population will consist of student-athletes, ages 12–23, from local high schools and colleges. These athletes are involved in a range of both contact and non-contact sports. Elsevier 2018-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6037875/ /pubmed/29998204 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2018.06.007 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Toninato, Joseph Casey, Hannah Uppal, Mohit Abdallah, Tessneem Bergman, Thomas Eckner, JamesT. Samadani, Uzma Traumatic brain injury reduction in athletes by neck strengthening (TRAIN) |
title | Traumatic brain injury reduction in athletes by neck strengthening (TRAIN) |
title_full | Traumatic brain injury reduction in athletes by neck strengthening (TRAIN) |
title_fullStr | Traumatic brain injury reduction in athletes by neck strengthening (TRAIN) |
title_full_unstemmed | Traumatic brain injury reduction in athletes by neck strengthening (TRAIN) |
title_short | Traumatic brain injury reduction in athletes by neck strengthening (TRAIN) |
title_sort | traumatic brain injury reduction in athletes by neck strengthening (train) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6037875/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29998204 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2018.06.007 |
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