IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aph/ajpbhl/198373121370-1375_2.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Concussion incidences and severity in secondary school varsity football players

Author

Listed:
  • Gerberich, S.G.
  • Priest, J.D.
  • Boen, J.R.
  • Straub, C.P.
  • Maxwell, R.E.

Abstract

The head coaches and players of 103 secondary school football teams in Minnesota were asked to respond to mail questionnaires. Information about injury incidence and concomitant health care provision was elicited. Responses from 3,063 players (81 per cent) yielded a total injury rate of 78 injuries/100 players; 19/100 players reported a concussion experience characterized by loss of consciousness and/or loss of awareness. Of the players who experienced a loss of consciousness, 69 per cent were returned to play the same day. Persistent concussion symptoms were reported as long as six to nine months following the end of the season; six cases involved permanent disabilities. Continued use of illegal techniques of butt-blocking and face-tackling by as many as 40 per cent of the players was associated with apparent increased risks of concussions and concussion symptoms. Players with a prior history of loss of consciousness had a risk of loss of consciousness four times that of the player without a prior history.

Suggested Citation

  • Gerberich, S.G. & Priest, J.D. & Boen, J.R. & Straub, C.P. & Maxwell, R.E., 1983. "Concussion incidences and severity in secondary school varsity football players," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 73(12), pages 1370-1375.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1983:73:12:1370-1375_2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Bhavneet Walia & Brittany L. Kmush & Justin Ehrlich & Madeline Mackowski & Shane Sanders, 2021. "Age at League Entry and Early All-Cause Mortality among National Football League Players," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(24), pages 1-12, December.
    2. Román, F.L. & González, A. & White, J.A. & Velasco, S., 1996. "On the calculation of the single-particle momentum and energy distributions for a hard-core fluid in the microcanonical molecular dynamics ensemble," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 234(1), pages 53-75.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1983:73:12:1370-1375_2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.apha.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.