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Assessment of Football Activities Associated with Sports-Related Concussions
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Bennington, Katherine Elizabeth
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1239144091
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2009, Master of Arts, Miami University, Speech Pathology and Audiology.
Abstract
The growing number of injuries and fatalities in athletes due to traumatic brain injuries has led to an increase in the need for additional research. The purpose of the study was to determine the football activities that yield the greatest number of concussions in order to gain knowledge about additional risk factors for sustaining a concussion. The study included 40 football players from Miami University who sustained a concussion from 1999 to 2008. The results revealed football players performing a running play have a greater risk for sustaining a concussion, and 75% of concussions occurred in the offensive position for running, passing, kick-off, and blocking plays. In addition, running plays consistently caused the highest number of concussions sustained over a ten-year period.
Committee
Kathleen Hutchinson, PhD (Committee Chair)
Kelly Knollman-Porter, M.A. (Committee Member)
Brett Massie, Ed.D (Committee Member)
Pages
41 p.
Subject Headings
Sports Medicine
Keywords
Football
;
Concussions
;
Sports
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Bennington, K. E. (2009).
Assessment of Football Activities Associated with Sports-Related Concussions
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1239144091
APA Style (7th edition)
Bennington, Katherine.
Assessment of Football Activities Associated with Sports-Related Concussions.
2009. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1239144091.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Bennington, Katherine. "Assessment of Football Activities Associated with Sports-Related Concussions." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1239144091
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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