Sports Injuries

Academic outcomes in high-school students after a concussion: A retrospective population-based analysis  K. Russell et al., PLoS One, October 2016

Accumulated workloads and the acute:chronic workload ratio relate to injury risk in elite youth football players  L. Bowen et al., British Journal of Sports Medicine, March 2017

ACL tears in school-aged children and adolescents over 20 years  N.A. Beck et al., Pediatrics, March 2017

Addressing concussion in youth sports  K.D. Walter, Virtual Mentor, July 2014

Analysis of injury incidences in male professional adult and elite youth soccer players: A systematic review  D. Pfirrmann et al., Journal of Athletic Training, May 2016

As ACL tears pile up, doctors and coaches worry that kids are playing too much basketball  S. Pell, Washington Post, May 23, 2019

As cheerleading injuries rise, doctors call for stricter safety rules  N. Shute, Shots: Health News from NPR, October 22, 2012

Bidirectional association between daily physical activity and postconcussion symptoms among youth  J. Yang et al., JAMA Network Open, November 2020

CDC issues first guidelines to treat youth concussions  W. Drash, CNN, September 4, 2018

Child development and pediatric sport and recreational injuries by age  D.C. Schwebel & C.M. Brezausek, Journal of Athletic Training, December 2014

Chugiak football hopes new helmets cut down on concussions  J. Edge, APRN's Alaska News Nightly, February 12, 2013

Concussion in youth ice hockey: It's time to break the cycle  L.S. Johnson, Canadian Medical Association Journal, May 2011

Concussion prescription: A year on the bench for youngsters?  N. Shute, Shots: Health News from NPR, June 10, 2013

Concussion recovery time among high school and collegiate athletes: A systematic review and meta-analysis  R.M. Williams et al., Sports Medicine, June 2015

Concussion under-reporting and pressure from coaches, teammates, fans, and parents  E. Kroshus et al., Social Science & Medicine, June 2015

Concussions are biggest health risk to cheerleaders  HealthDay News, December 10, 2015

Concussive head injury in children and adolescents  G.J. Browne & S. Dimou, Australian Family Physician, July 2016

Cost of contact in sports is estimated at over 600,000 injuries a year  G. Kolata, New York Times, September 29, 2017

Defining traumatic brain injury in children and youth using International Classification of Diseases version 10 codes: A systematic review protocol  V. Chan et al., Systematic Reviews, November 2013

Development and feasibility of an evidence-informed self-management education program in pediatric concussion rehabilitation  A.W. Hunt et al., BMC Health Services Research, August 2016

Diagnostic accuracy of tablet-based software for the detection of concussion  S. Yang et al., PLoS One, July 2017

Doctor to teen athletes: Skip Spanx  N. Shute, Shots: Health News from NPR, March 25, 2011

Doctors to vote on whether cheerleading is a sport  S. Hensley, Shots: Health News from NPR, June 14, 2013

Does high level youth sports participation increase the risk of femoroacetabular impingement? A review of the current literature  V. de Silva et al., Pediatric Rheumatology Online Journal, March 2016

Drill-specific head impact exposure in youth football practice  E.T. Campolettano et al., Journal of Neurosurgery. Pediatrics, November 2016

Early operative versus delayed or nonoperative treatment of anterior cruciate ligament injuries in pediatric patients  K.L. Dunn et al., Journal of Athletic Training, May 2016

ED utilization up for pediatric mTBI after TBI legislation  HealthDay News, November 21, 2018

Epidemiology of injuries in female high school soccer players  K.R. Sentsomedi & T. Puckree, African Health Sciences, March 2016

Equestrian-related traumatic brain injury in the pediatric population  H.S. Nguyen & S. Lew, Pediatric Neurosurgery, June 2016

Evaluating the risks and benefits of participation in high-school football  M.J. O'Brien & W.P. Meehan 3rd, Virtual Mentor, July 2014

Evaluation of static and dynamic balance in athletes with anterior cruciate ligament injury: A controlled study  T.L. Fernandes et al., Clinics, August 2016

Exercise vs competitive athletics in youth: A neuroscience perspective  L.M. Konopka, Croatian Medical Journal, December 2015

Factors influencing helmet use, head injury, and hospitalization among children involved in skateboarding and snowboarding accidents  H. Sadeghian et al., Permanente Journal, April 2017

Force, frequency of head hits jump as young football players get older  A. Mozes, HealthDay, June 27, 2017

From injury to opioid: The unintended side effect of youth sports participation  B. Mandelbaum, U.S. News & World Report, October 18, 2018

A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of working memory in youth after sports-related concussion: is it still working?  M.L. Keightley et al., Journal of Neurotrauma, March 2014

Got a sports concussion? See a doctor and don't play games  S. Hensley, Shots: Health News from NPR, November 1, 2010

Head injuries hit 1 in 14 kids, CDC reports  S. Gordon, HealthDay News, February 9, 2018

Head injuries in school-age children who play golf  K. Reuter-Rice et al., Journal of School Nursing, April 2016

Health care in high school athletics in West Virginia  K. Schneider et al., Rural and Remote Health, March 2017

High school football players use their helmets to tackle other players despite knowing the risks  A.M. Kuriyama et al., Hawai'i Journal of Medicine & Public Health, March 2017

High school rowing injuries: National Athletic Treatment, Injury and Outcomes Network (NATION)  C.M. Baugh & Z.Y. Kerr, Journal of Athletic Training, April 2016

Incidence of second anterior cruciate ligament tears (1990-2000) and associated factors in a specific geographic locale  N.D. Schilaty et al., American Journal of Sports Medicine, June 2017

Incorporating concussion education into hockey programs: Concussion resources: Healthy Hockey Heads study  L. Kibria & A. Fanning, Canadian Family Physician, August 2016

Initial somatic symptoms are associated with prolonged symptom duration following concussion in adolescents  D.R. Howell et al., Acta Paediatrica, September 2016

Injuries sustained by high school rugby players in the United States, 2005-2006  C.L. Collins et al., Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, January 2008

Injury and illness epidemiology at a summer sport-camp program, 2008 through 2011  D.M. Oller et al., Journal of Athletic Training, March 2015

Injury initiates unfavourable weight gain and obesity markers in youth  G.D. Myer et al., British Journal of Sports Medicine, October 2014

Investigating the feasibility and utility of bedside balance technology acutely after pediatric concussion: A pilot study  T.D. Rhine et al., Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, May 2016

Is "football for all" safe for all? Cross-sectional study of disparities as determinants of 1-year injury prevalence in youth football programs  Ö. Dahlström et al., PLoS One, August 2012

Kids who specialize in one sport too early are likely to get hurt: Study  R. Preidt, HealthDay News, March 29, 2019

Many hits, rather than a big one, pose greatest concussion risk  N. Shute, Shots: Health News from NPR, February 3, 2012

Multiparametric MRI changes persist beyond recovery in concussed adolescent hockey players  K.Y. Manning et al., Neurology, November 2017

Multiple past concussions in high school football players: Are there differences in cognitive functioning and symptom reporting?  B.L. Brooks et al., American Journal of Sports Medicine, December 2016

Musculoskeletal symptoms in an adolescent athlete population: A comparative study  E.P. Legault et al., BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, August 2015

Paediatric sports injuries  L. Huguenin, Australian Family Physician, July 2016

Pediatric issues in sports concussions  C.C Giza, Continuum, December 2014

Physical therapists' role in prevention and management of patellar tendinopathy injuries in youth, collegiate, and middle-aged indoor volleyball athletes  K. Kulig et al., Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy, October 2015

Postconcussion postural sway variability changes in youth: The benefit of structural variability analyses  C.C. Quatman-Yates, Pediatric Physical Therapy, Winter 2015

Psychometric properties and normative data for the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18) in high school and collegiate athletes  M.A. Lancaster et al., Clinical Neuropsychologist, February 2016

Recent injury and health-related quality of life in adolescent athletes  T.C.V. McLeod, Journal of Athletic Training, November 2009

Recognizing the symptoms of mental illness following concussions in the sports community: A need for improvement  J. Topolovec-Vranic, PLoS One, November 2015

Repeated head hits, not just concussions, may lead to a type of chronic brain damage  T. Goldman, Shots: Health News from NPR, January 18, 2018

Return to knee-strenuous sport after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: A report from a rehabilitation outcome registry of patient characteristics  E. Hamrin Senorski et al., Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, May 2017

Risk of injury associated with bodychecking experience among youth hockey players  C. Emery et al., Canadian Medical Association Journal, August 2011

Safe-play knowledge, aggression, and head-impact biomechanics in adolescent ice hockey players  J.D. Schmidt et al., Journal of Athletic Training, May 2016

A safety checklist to save teen athletes' lives  D. Franklin, Shots: Health News from NPR, August 15, 2013

Shoe and field surface risk factors for acute lower extremity injuries among female youth soccer players  J.W. O'Kane et al., Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, May 2016

Should school boards discontinue support for high school football?  L.H. Margolis et al., Pediatrics, January 2017

Soccer-related injuries treated in emergency departments: 1990-2014  N.A. Smith et al., Pediatrics, October 2016

Some young athletes may be more vulnerable to hits to the head  N. Shute, Shots: Health News from NPR, December 11, 2013

Spit test may help reveal concussion severity  J. Hamilton, Shots: Health News from NPR, November 20, 2017

Sport specialization's association with an increased risk of developing anterior knee pain in adolescent female athletes  R. Hall et al., Journal of Sport Rehabilitation, February 2015

Sports- and recreation-related concussions in US Youth  M.A. Bryan et al., Pediatrics, July 2016

Study reveals common products linked to most traumatic brain injuries in kids  J. Howard, CNN Health, July 29, 2019

Table: Youth sports concussion laws  Network for Public Health Law, August 2017

Teens fare worst after concussions  N. Shute, Shots: Health News from NPR, February 29, 2012

Tolerable risks? Physicians and youth tackle football  K.E. Bachynski, New England Journal of Medicine, February 2016

Training the developing brain part II: Cognitive considerations for youth instruction and feedback  A.M. Kushner et al., Current Sports Medicine Reports, June 2015

Traumatic brain and spinal cord fatalities among high school and college football players--United States, 2005-2014  K.L. Kucera et al., CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, January 6, 2017

Validation of a score to determine time to postconcussive recovery  S.J. Hearps et al., Pediatrics, February 2017

Vestibular deficits following youth concussion  D.J. Corwin et al., Journal of Pediatrics, May 2015