Trial reportBritish journal of sports medicine2020
Does soccer headgear reduce the incidence of sport-related concussion? A cluster, randomised controlled trial of adolescent athletes.
Trial report in British journal of sports medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02850926 (The Effectiveness of Soccer Headgear to Reduce Concussion in Adolescents), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Effectiveness of Soccer Headgear to Reduce Concussion in Adolescents
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prevention strategies and modifiable risk factors for concussion: a systematic review and meta-analysis for the Female, woman and girl/or Athlete Injury pRevention (FAIR) consensus.British journal of sports medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Incidence and Risk Factors for Sport-Related Concussion in Female Youth Athletes Participating in Contact and Collision Invasion Sports: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Pooled it
- Soft-shell headgear, concussion and injury prevention in youth team collision sports: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2021Pooled it
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- The Untapped Potential of Expert Elicitation in Sports Medicine Epidemiology.Sports medicine - open · 2026Article
- Protective Equipment in Football: A Review of History, Evolution, Materials, and Contemporary Use.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Laboratory Evaluation of a Wearable Instrumented Headband for Rotational Head Kinematics Measurement.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2025Article
- Padded Helmet Shell Covers in American Football: A Comprehensive Laboratory Evaluation with Preliminary On-Field Findings.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2024Article
- Headgear use in girls' lacrosse-stakeholders not ready for change.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Sport-related concussion in soccer -a scoping review of available guidelines and a call for action to FIFA & soccer governing bodies.Brain & spine · 2024Article
- Where are We Headed? Evidence to Inform Future Football Heading Guidelines.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Review
- Prevention of sports-related concussion in soccer: a comprehensive review of the literature.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Article
- A pilot case crossover study of the use of padded headgear in junior Australian football.Concussion (London, England) · 2022Article
- Epidemiology of sport-related concussion rates in female contact/collision sport: a systematic review.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2022Review
- Purposeful Heading in Youth Soccer: A Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2021Review
- Heading-Related Slowing by Twenty-Four Hours in Youth Athletes.Journal of neurotrauma · 2020Article
- Soccer-related head injuries-analysis of sentinel surveillance data collected by the electronic Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program.Paediatrics & child health · 2020Article
- Concussion in soccer: a comprehensive review of the literature.Concussion (London, England) · 2020Review
- Are high school girls' lacrosse players at increased risk of concussion because they are not allowed to wear the same helmet boys' lacrosse players are required to wear?Injury epidemiology · 2020Article
- Concussion-Prevention Strategies Used in National Collegiate Athletic Association Divisions I and II Women's Soccer.Journal of athletic training · 2020Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundThere have been no large randomised controlled trials to determine whether soccer headgear reduces the incidence or severity of sport-related concussion (SRC) in US high school athletes.
objectiveWe aimed to determine whether headgear reduces the incidence or severity (days out from soccer) of SRCs in soccer players.
methods2766 participants (67% female, age 15.6±1.2) (who undertook 3050 participant years) participated in this cluster randomised trial. Athletes in the headgear (HG) group wore headgear during the season, while those in the no headgear (NoHG) group did not. Staff recorded SRC and non-SRC injuries and soccer exposures. Multivariate Cox proportional hazards models were used to examine time-to-SRC between groups, while severity was compared with a Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
results130 participants (5.3% female, 2.2% male) sustained an SRC. The incidence of SRC was not different between the HG and NoHG groups for males (HR: 2.00 (0.63-6.43) p=0.242) and females (HR: 0.86 (0.54-1.36) p=0.520). Days lost from SRC were not different (p=0.583) between the HG group (13.5 (11.0-018.8) days) and the NoHG group (13.0 (9.0-18.8) days).
conclusionsSoccer headgear did not reduce the incidence or severity of SRC in high school soccer players. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT02850926.
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