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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"former athletes"”.
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Exercise Therapy for Mood Disorders in Retiring/Former Athletes
… for mood-related difficulties experienced by former elite athletes during the transition out of competitive sport. Retirement from athletics is often associated with significant biopsychosocial challenges, including disruptions in identity, healthy routines, social support, and emotional …
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Factors influencing the level of financial support provided by former athletes from a NCAA Division I-A Football Championship Series (FCS) university to their alma mater
… factors that influence giving decisions of former athletes at a small regional university. A former athlete survey was developed and administrated to 769 former athletes who graduated from UT Martin between 1994 and 2015. The survey had 212 individual valid responses for an overall 27.5% …
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Investigating the Use of [18-F] tau-PET Imaging as a Biomarker of tau Pathology in Retired Athletes at Risk of Neurodegeneration
… of tau protein in the brains of affected athletes in a pattern distinct from other neurodegenerative diseases. There is currently no in vivo biomarker of tau pathology of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and the diagnosis is made post-mortem. [18-F] Flortaucipir tau-PET has shown high …
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Exercise in Youth and Long-Term Effects on Bone and Joints
… cohort study that followed 46 active male athletes into a mean 29 years of retirement and 24 age-matched controls. The second used a cross-sectional mixed model design that included 329 measurements in 193 active and former male soccer players and 450 measurements in 280 controls, all aged …
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The Effects of Sports Related Concussions on Retired Professional Football Players
… an increase in awareness on and off the field. Former athletes Junior Seau and Percy Harvin suffered from concussions during their playing careers and there have been lasting impacts when they retired from the NFL. Seau committed suicide while being diagnosed with CTE and Harvin was diagnosed …
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The Lived Experience Prior to and Following Sport-Related Concussions Sustained in High School Athletics
… in America, impacting the health of U.S. athletes of all ages.1-6 To date, the majority of SRC research has been quantitative, so there is a lack of qualitative investigations of how a SRC has impacted an individual’s lived experiences. Purpose: This retrospective qualitative pilot study …
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Modeling subconcussive and cumulative subconcussive impacts using a lateral fluid percusion injury device
… career, involving contact activities (e.g. athletes and military personnel), are beginning to be implicated in long-term consequences, such as dementia. Recently, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has gained momentum in the science and medical community as a neurodegenerative disease of …
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Physical self-concept and athletic identity among former collegiate athletes : examining the influence on self
… global self-esteem, and athletic identity among former collegiate athletes. 308 former Division 1 NCAA collegiate athletes participated in the study. This study replicated findings that physical self-worth demonstrates a positive relation with global self-esteem. Athletic identity was shown to …