IMPORTANCE A report by the Institute of Medicine called for comprehensive nationwide concussion incidence data across the spectrum of athletes aged 5 to 23 years. OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence of concussion in athletes participating in youth, high school, and collegiate American football. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Data were collected by athletic trainers at youth, high school,...

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Abstract We describe a dataset of processed data with associated reproducible preprocessing pipeline collected from two collegiate athlete groups and one non-athlete group. The shares minimally diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) data, three models the diffusion signal in voxel, full-brain tractograms, segmentation major white matter tracts as well structural connectivity matri...

OBJECTIVE To understand the estimation of both the effective dose and the risk estimate associated with diagnostic ionizing radiation in sports medicine and to appreciate strategies by which this radiation exposure may be minimized. DESIGN Observational study. SETTING Sports medicine practice. PATIENTS A theoretical patient, athlete X (male, aged 20-29 years, 80 kg), was used to illustrat...

OBJECTIVES To establish by literature survey: (a) levels at which air pollutants are considered damaging to human health and to exercisers in particular; (b) the current ambient levels experienced in the United Kingdom; (c) whether athletes are especially at risk. METHODS Six major urban air pollutants were examined: carbon monoxide (CO); nitrogen oxides (NO(X)); ozone (O(3)); particulate mat...

Based on the contention that leadership has sustained effects on followers even after the leader-follower relationship has ended, we investigated the career-long effects of abusive coach leadership on athlete aggression and task performance. Abusive leadership scores were derived from ratings by two independent raters' evaluations of coaches' biographies, and athlete aggression and task perform...