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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Contact sport"”.
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Cognitive and emotional effects of one season of head impact exposure in high school contact sport athletes
… and long-term neurological damage as a result of sports-related brain trauma is a major concern for athletes today. In the last decade, studies of subconcussive repetitive head impacts (RHI) in contact sports have found associations with functional and structural brain changes, even in the absence …
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Physical, Emotional, and Competitive Aggression Tendencies in Contact and Non-Contact Collegiate Athletes
… tendencies between athletes who play a contact sport and athletes who play a non-contact sport at the collegiate level were investigated. Specifically, emotional, physical, and competitive aggression tendencies were measured for both groups and then compared to each other using …
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Investigating the relationship between sleep and emotion amongst club rugby players
… club rugby (Rugby group; n = 21), and a group of sportsmen who did not play any contact sport (Non-Contact Sport group; n = 21). This online study utilized a survey, which included questions regarding demographics, alcohol and drug use, presence and severity of depressive symptoms, history of …
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A Qualitative Examination of the Sport Music Preferences of NCAA Division I Athletes
… report listening to music prior to their sport participation for a number of reasons, including: mood-regulation, arousal control, and concentration (Laukka & Quick, 2011; Sorenson, Czech, Gonzalez, Klein, & Lachowetz, 2008; Stevens & Lane, 2001). Researchers have found that many athletes …
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DTI and MEG Imaging of Subconcussive Impacts in High School Football Players
… the highest concussion rate of any competitive contact sport. High school aged males visit the emergency department for concussions caused by football more often than any other cause. While proper identification, diagnosis, and management of concussions in the emergency department can help avoid …
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A Phenomenological Investigation of Sport and Fandom Through Hans-Georg Gadamer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
… the phenomenological and communicative roots of sport fandom from the fan perspective, taking into account the many ways in which fans come to contact sport and integrate corresponding experiences into their own lives and sense of being in the world. Hans-Georg Gadamer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty …
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Investigating history of concussion and data from head impact telemetry (xPatch) in relation to neuropsychological outcomes in a sample of adult rugby players in Cape Town
… more so than that recorded for any other contact sport, including American Football, are also more frequently exposed to head collisions not resulting in concussion (i.e., subconcussive head injuries). Despite some evidence for a potential association between such injuries and acute …
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Gender and Bodily Transformation in Women's Flat Track Roller Derby
Sports as a social institution reflects and reshapes social values and power relations in broader society, including gender relations. For instance, the ways in which bodies are used in sports produces gender; as such sport has been shown to reaffirm men's power over women and ritualize and embed …
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Resisting gendered sport roles: A criminological sports analysis of women's rugby in the U.S.
… allowed women of all ages to begin engaging with contact sports in the United States. Although growing, women's participation in contact sports remains adolescent in comparison to men's. The elements of physicality, masculinity, and gendered expression often associated with rough sports may affect …
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Robotic evaluation of sensorimotor and cognitive function following exposure to subconcussive impacts
… such impacts, including military personnel and contact sport athletes, often report symptoms as their careers progress. However, monitoring neurological changes related to subconcussive impacts is challenging because few objective measures are currently available. Robotic technology, such as the …
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Scottish academy rugby players' lived experiences of career-related traumatic injuries and injury rehabilitation: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Background: Rugby Union is a popular contact sport. Consequently, injury rates are high, and injuries become an inevitable part of a player’s career. There has been major criticism of the sports governing bodies around player welfare and sufficient support for injured players. It is therefore …
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Injury in elite rugby players during the Super 15 Rugby tournament
Professional rugby union is a contact sport with a high risk of injury. The Super Rugby competition is a particularly demanding 16-week Southern Hemisphere tournament. In this tournament, 15 teams compete and play international level matches every week, which may be associated with an even higher …
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Pressure-Based Interaction Techniques for Supporting Feedback Strategies in Sports
… such scenario is Roller Derby skating, a full contact sport played on quad roller skates. This thesis identifies the need for providing lap time performance information during skating and provides a detailed exploration of interaction design using pressure as an input method.<br/><br/>The first …
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The Effects of Youth Football on the Developing Brain: A Multi-Modal Neuroimaging Study
… in high school, collegiate, and professional sports, but limited data are available for the youth age group (8-13 years old). Hence, the overall topic of this dissertation is to evaluate RHI across a season of contact American football. Previous contact sport studies of high school and …
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Elucidating the Impact of Previous Head Injury on Cognition, Brain Structure, and Pathophysiology in Cognitively Normal Individuals Across the Adult Lifespan
… for athletic populations, particularly in high-contact sports, at risk for repetitive mTBI. Short-term effects of mTBI are heterogeneous, but well-documented, and the majority of individuals recover from post-concussive symptoms within several months. However, long-term effects of mTBI on brain …
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Optimal Head Impact Signal Processing and the Description and Perception of Head Impact Exposure in Female Adolescent Ice Hockey Players
… a topic of concern for professional and youth contact sport athletes alike. Vulnerable populations such as females and pediatric athletes deserve special attention but are understudied. It is known that females tend to be diagnosed with concussions more frequently and incur them at lower peak …
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A retrospective study in understanding 'low speed change' vehicle collisions, occupant movement and likelihood of injury
… Fraud’. Such is the problem that the Transport Select Committee has been considering how to tackle it now for a number of months. The applicant has personally provided assistance to the Chair of the Committee. The question: ‘How do experts assist in determining the legitimacy of individual …
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A description of the profiles of U18 rugby players who attended the Craven Week tournament between 2002-2012
… the manifestation of talent. In a collision sport such as rugby the early maturers have a distinct advantage. An added complexity in the South African context is the need to provide an appropriate development environment within which transformation can take place. At all levels in South …
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Neurovascular implications of life-long exposure to contact in rugby union; the link to cognition
<b>Introduction</b>: Recurrent contact and concussion in sport represents a significant and growing public health concern which may contribute to long-term neurologic sequela in later-life. To what extent this relates to an accelerated decline in cerebral perfusion, a major risk factor for …
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Injury incidence and severity at the South African Rugby Union (SARU) Youth Weeks Tournaments: a four year study
… Union (hereinafter referred to as ‘rugby’) is a contact sport with players being exposed to repetitive collisions throughout a match. As the risk of injury is relatively high, incidence surveillance studies within rugby has become popular. However most of the studies have focussed on senior …
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