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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Youth Football"”.
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Head Impact Biomechanics and Helmet Performance in Youth Football
… the knowledge of head impact biomechanics in youth football players by analyzing head impact exposure of youth football players and the performance of youth football helmets. The results of the studies presented provide a foundation for researchers, football leagues, and helmet manufactures to …
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Evaluation of the Biomechanical Performance of Youth Football Helmets
Youth and varsity football helmets are currently designed similarly and tested to the same impact standards from the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE). Youth players have differences in anthropometry, physiology, impact exposure, and potentially injury …
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Fundamentals and principles of youth football in Iceland : the coaches’ perspectives
Fundamentals and Principles of Youth Football in Iceland The Coaches’ Perspectives Objectives: This study explores fundamentals and principles of youth football in Iceland. The rationale is to reveal how these aspects are perceived and whether they are visible in practice. This study is the first …
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Identifying High Risk Individuals in Youth Football and Evaluating Tackling Technique
Nearly 3.5 million kids play youth football every year in the United States, many in independent organizations with few or no rules for limiting head impact exposure in practices or competition. Studies have found potential long-term effects of repetitive head impact exposure from a young age, even …
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Quantifying Postural Control, Concussion Risk, and Helmet Performance in Youth Football
… sports-related concussions occur annually in youth sports in the United States (U.S.). Often considered a transient injury, research has begun to relate sports-related concussions to long-term neurodegeneration. Youth athletes are considered to be more vulnerable to concussion than their adult …
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Evaluation of Head Impact Exposure and Concussion Injury Mechanisms in Youth Football
Over 3 million youth athletes participate in tackle football in the United States. There are numerous benefits to the health and development of adolescents that participate in sports, but there are also injury risks. In particular, there has been growing concern regarding participation in youth …
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Psychological Development in Professional Youth Football: An Ethnography of Sports Psychology Practice
… practitioners to deliver their work within football academies (Nesti, 2012). The recognition of psychological support by the EPPP adds a new importance for us to better understand the impact of the lived experiences of applied practitioners within professional football clubs on their …
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Head Impacts in Hockey and Youth Football: Biomechanical Response and Helmet Padding Characteristics
The research presented herein is a combination of work done in two distinct subcategories of sport related head injury research. The body of work is aimed at increasing the understanding of head impact biomechanics across a broad spectrum of impact scenarios as well as the ability of helmets to …
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The Effects of Youth Football on the Developing Brain: A Multi-Modal Neuroimaging Study
Football players can experience hundreds of head impacts during a single season without sustaining a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). There is a growing concern regarding the association between later-life neurodegenerative disease development and earlier life head injury. This association is …
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DTI, structural network connectivity, and neurocognitive changes associated with subconcussive impacts in youth football players
American football has the highest rates of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) among youth athletes (age 8-13 years) in the United States. It is well established that concussions can lead to disruption of white matter (WM) microstructural integrity and lead to neurocognitive impairment. Little is …
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A stress-based examination of the impact of injury occurrence in elite youth football players
… physical and psychological development of elite youth academy footballers (14.1 to 23.0 years old) and considered which physical and psychological measures might indicate risk of non-contact injury. Three studies, based on longitudinal observational designs, surveyed players during a critical …
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Isokinetic muscular strength and performance in youth football : relationships with age, seasonal variation and injury
… muscular strength and performance of elite male youth footballers, and the relationships with age, seasonal variation and injury. A secondary aim was to use the information gathered to target muscle strain injury prevention strategies to particular age groups and times, and evaluate the …
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The effect of aerobic base training on heart-rate variability and performance in elite youth football players
… base training on HRV and performance in elite youth football players. To see whether aerobic base training has a direct effect on the autonomic nervous system and the subsequent change in HRV. Furthermore, whether the change in HRV has an effect on footballing performance. Methods: 18 elite …
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On-Field Measurement of Head Impacts in Youth Football: Characterizing High Magnitude Impacts and Assessing Balance Outcomes
… this thesis focuses on head impact exposure in youth football. The on-field portion of this research investigated high magnitude head impacts that youth football players experience in games and practices. With previously validated data collection methods, linear and rotational head accelerations …
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Head Impact Exposure in Youth Football: Evaluation of Practice Drills and Age and Weight Based Levels of Play
… in the United States is 1.6 to 3.8 million with football having one of the highest rates of injury. Considerable research has been done to better understand concussions as well as quantifying head impact exposure sustained by a football athlete, but efforts have been mainly focused on the high …
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Context and practice within a youth football setting: an exploration of psychological well-being through action research processes
… practice and context within a professional football academy. The thesis also focuses on the processes of action research as a catalyst for practice-change in the academy environment, towards a culture of well-being. During the initial stages, pre-reconnaissance discussions took place with …
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Developing a Framework of Mental Toughness in Youth Football: Exploring Mentally Tough Behaviours and Personality to Aid Talent Development
To achieve their strategic priorities, the Football Association of Wales Trust (FAWT) required greater insight into their psychosocial pillar of performance. Specifically, there was a need to explore the personal resources that facilitate youth players to transition into and perform successfully in …
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The derivation and validation of a novel field test for youth soccer
… the positional physical demands of sub-elite youth football using acceleration/deceleration profiles, and accelerometer derived metrics, which were used to inform the derivation of a field based testing protocol.
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Evaluation of Football Safety Techniques Utilizing Biomechanical Measurements
… the occurrence of such injury. Participants of youth football are at an extreme disadvantage as very little research has been conducted on this population. The research presented in this dissertation attempts to characterize head impact exposure of a variable subgroup of youth football, middle …
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An International Comparative History of Youth Football in France and the United States (C.1920-C.2000): The Age Paradigm and the Demarcation of the Youth Game as a Separate Sector of the Sport
… contends that the contemporary phenomenon of youth football is the fruit of a variety of historical developments over the twentieth century. The manner in which the junior game evolved as an independent subset of the sport in France and America was certainly exemplary of the idiosyncrasies of …
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