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Characteristics of potential concussive events in three elite football tournaments

OBJECTIVE: Identify patterns in the nature and characteristics of potential concussive events (PCEs) in football. METHODS: This study analysed the incidence and characteristics of PCEs that occurred during the 2014 and 2018 Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cups, and the 2016 U...

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Autores principales: Armstrong, Nicholas, Rotundo, Mario, Aubrey, Jason, Tarzi, Christopher, Cusimano, Michael D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7418614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31331934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043242
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author Armstrong, Nicholas
Rotundo, Mario
Aubrey, Jason
Tarzi, Christopher
Cusimano, Michael D
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description OBJECTIVE: Identify patterns in the nature and characteristics of potential concussive events (PCEs) in football. METHODS: This study analysed the incidence and characteristics of PCEs that occurred during the 2014 and 2018 Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cups, and the 2016 UEFA Euro Cup. PCEs were defined as direct head collision incidents resulting in the athlete being unable to immediately resume play for at least 5 sec following impact. RESULTS: A total of 218 incidents were identified in 179 matches (1.22 per match, 36.91 per 1000 hours of exposure). The most common mechanism of PCE was elbow-to-head (28.7%, n=68). The frontal region was the most frequently affected location of impact with 22.8% (n=54). CONCLUSION: Our study defined the identification, prevalence and nature of PCEs in professional international soccer tournaments. Our findings indicate the different contexts and mechanisms of head contact and contact to different regions of the head can be associated with varying signs of concussion. The results highlight targets for future injury prevention strategies.
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spelling pubmed-74186142020-08-18 Characteristics of potential concussive events in three elite football tournaments Armstrong, Nicholas Rotundo, Mario Aubrey, Jason Tarzi, Christopher Cusimano, Michael D Inj Prev Original Research OBJECTIVE: Identify patterns in the nature and characteristics of potential concussive events (PCEs) in football. METHODS: This study analysed the incidence and characteristics of PCEs that occurred during the 2014 and 2018 Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cups, and the 2016 UEFA Euro Cup. PCEs were defined as direct head collision incidents resulting in the athlete being unable to immediately resume play for at least 5 sec following impact. RESULTS: A total of 218 incidents were identified in 179 matches (1.22 per match, 36.91 per 1000 hours of exposure). The most common mechanism of PCE was elbow-to-head (28.7%, n=68). The frontal region was the most frequently affected location of impact with 22.8% (n=54). CONCLUSION: Our study defined the identification, prevalence and nature of PCEs in professional international soccer tournaments. Our findings indicate the different contexts and mechanisms of head contact and contact to different regions of the head can be associated with varying signs of concussion. The results highlight targets for future injury prevention strategies. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-08 2019-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7418614/ /pubmed/31331934 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043242 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7418614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31331934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043242
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