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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"contact sports"”.
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Female Aggression in Semi-contact Sports
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Concussion preventative head-gear in contact sports
… concussion preventative head-gear used in four contact sports: football, baseball, soccer, and basketball. The most effective head-gear from each sport is presented along with the reasons behind their success. Football and baseball organizations have regulations set in place for players to be …
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A personality study of athletes who participate in competitive intercollegiate personal contact sports
… in competitive intercollegiate personal contact sports, and which can be revealed by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory</p>
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Biomechanical Analyses of Head Acceleration during Contact Sports and Ankle Joint Complex Injury
Athletes are frequently exposed to conditions that can result in bodily injuries, such as concussions and ankle sprains. This research is divided into two separate biomechanical studies: the design and evaluation of a device to simulate football helmet collisions and its parameters, and a cadaveric …
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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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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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Gladiator Gear: The unintended consequences of protective equipment in gridiron football compared to rugby union
Sports equipment has evolved over time to both enhance performance and reduce the injury risk. Protective equipment is particularly important in contact sports where injuries are frequent. In American and Canadian football, helmets and shoulder pads are two pieces of protective equipment that are …
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The Relationship Between Prayer and Team Cohesion in Collegiate Softball Teams
… more supportive of prayer and religiosity in sports than their male counterparts. Therefore, the purposes of the present study were: 1) to examine the differences in team cohesion and spirituality between softball teams that pray and those that do not pray, and 2) describe why softball players …
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Utilization of the vacuum form machine: Custom mouthguards versus esthetic bleaching trays
… about mouthguard protection during contact sports,and 17.3% inquired on patient questionnaires about tooth color satisfaction.Conclusions: Dentists use vacuum form machines for home bleaching trays more than mouthguards. General dentists and pediatric dentists provide patient …
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Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries and Their Implications on Changes in Event Related Potentials: A look into Visual Gating (P50)
… Commonly seen amongst individuals who play contact sports, there are many underlying factors that doctors and clinicians have yet to understand which include properties such as proper diagnosis standards or lasting impacts. In this study, we look at those impacts by using …
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The psychology of anterior cruciate ligament injury rehabilitation amongst professional rugby union players
[From the introduction:]Within professional contact sports, injury has been reported frequently by athletes as causing stress (Anshel, 2001; Noblet & Gifford, 2002). Particularly within rugby union where injury has been reported as one of the top four stressors experienced by elite adolescent …
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Head Impact Exposure in Youth Football: Evaluation of Practice Drills and Age and Weight Based Levels of Play
… With millions of youth athletes participating in contact sports more research is needed to quantify exposure to repetitive head impacts and identify methods for reducing head impact exposure to make youth sports safer.
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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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Development, Validation, & Analysis of Tools to Understand the Biomechanical Basis of Exposure to Repetitive Subconcussive Impacts
An estimated 1.1 to 1.9 million sports-related concussions occur each year in the youth population, with the majority occurring during football. Recent increase in awareness of concussion has motivated research to better understand the prevalence and underlying injury mechanisms of concussion. …
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Error-Related Theta Dynamics and Single-Trial Cognitive Control in Sports-Related Concussion
Athletes in contact sports can sustain concussions that damage brain circuits important for cognitive control of behavior. When healthy participants err, a cascade of neural dynamics is apparent across the scalp, and this neural activity predicts participants’ learning from mistakes and inhibiting …
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The impact of information processing goals and capacity restrictions on attitude-memory
… Eating Red Meat vs. Marijuana Use vs. Playing Contact Sports) design. Participants were given a specific processing goal and were presented with issue-relevant information at either a restricted or unrestricted time interval. After a delay, they were presented with recall and recognition tasks. …
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The Mental Health Of Athletes: Channeling Frustration, Aggression, Internal/External Behaviors In The Real World To Improve Performance
… behaviors and externalizing behaviors within contact and non-contact sports, and how those experiences are shaped by gender, racial/ethnic background, and socioeconomic status. The study addressed a gap in the literature by centering athletes’ own perspectives on how emotions, coping, …
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Evaluating the Head Injury Risk Associated with Baseball and Softball
… and softball are not commonly depicted as contact sports in the, according to the U.S. CPSC baseball and softball were responsible for 11.6% of all head injuries treated in emergency rooms in 2009; third most behind only cycling and football. Ball impact has been identified as the leading …
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Cognitive Performance In A Retired NFL Population: Does Position Played And Racial Identity Impact Cognition?
… concussions sustained by players in popular contact sports. This attention has sparked national debates that continue to polarize both the sports and scientific communities on the long-standing neuroanatomical, cognitive, and psychiatric challenges that many retired NFL players experience …
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