ArticleJournal of athletic training2016
Safe-Play Knowledge, Aggression, and Head-Impact Biomechanics in Adolescent Ice Hockey Players.
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- Relationships between aggression, sensation seeking, brain stiffness, and head impact exposure: Implications for head impact prevention in ice hockey.Brain and behavior · 2022Article
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- Physical Performance Measures Correlate with Head Impact Exposure in Youth Football.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2020Article
- Evaluation of head impact exposure measured from youth football game plays.Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics · 2019Article
- Comparison of head impact exposure in practice drills among multiple youth football teams.Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics · 2019Article
- What the research says about concussion risk factors and prevention strategies for youth sports: A scoping review of six commonly played sports.Journal of safety research · 2019Article
- In-Season Variations in Head Impact Exposure among Youth Football Players.Journal of neurotrauma · 2019Article
- Novel strain analysis informs about injury susceptibility of the corpus callosum to repeated impacts.Brain communications · 2019Article
- Cerebral Autoregulation Is Disrupted Following a Season of Contact Sports Participation.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Article
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Abstract
contextAddressing safe-play knowledge and player aggression could potentially improve ice hockey sport safety.
objectivesTo compare (1) safe-play knowledge and aggression between male and female adolescent ice hockey players and (2) head-impact frequency and severity between players with high and low levels of safe-play knowledge and aggression during practices and games.
designCohort study.
settingOn field. PATIENTS OR OTHER
participantsForty-one male (n = 29) and female (n = 12) adolescent ice hockey players. INTERVENTION(S): Players completed the Safe Play Questionnaire (0 = less knowledge, 7 = most knowledge) and Competitive Aggressiveness and Anger Scale (12 = less aggressive, 60 = most aggressive) at midseason. Aggressive penalty minutes were recorded throughout the season. The Head Impact Telemetry System was used to capture head-impact frequency and severity (linear acceleration [g], rotational acceleration [rad/s(2)], Head Impact Technology severity profile) at practices and games. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): One-way analyses of variance were used to compare safe play knowledge and aggression between sexes. Players were categorized as having high or low safe-play knowledge and aggression using a median split. A 2 × 2 mixed-model analysis of variance was used to compare head-impact frequency, and random-intercept general linear models were used to compare head-impact severity between groups (high, low) and event types (practice, game).
resultsBoys (5.8 of 7 total; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 5.3, 6.3) had a trend toward better safe-play knowledge compared with girls (4.9 of 7 total; 95% CI = 3.9, 5.9; F1,36 = 3.40, P = .073). Less aggressive male players sustained significantly lower head rotational accelerations during practices (1512.8 rad/s (2) , 95% CI = 1397.3, 1637.6 rad/s(2)) versus games (1754.8 rad/s (2) , 95% CI = 1623.9, 1896.2 rad/s(2)) and versus high-aggression players during practices (1773.5 rad/s (2) , 95% CI = 1607.9, 1956.3 rad/s (2) ; F1,26 = 6.04, P = .021).
conclusionsCoaches and sports medicine professionals should ensure that athletes of all levels, ages, and sexes have full knowledge of safe play and should consider aggression interventions for reducing head-impact severity among aggressive players during practice.
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