Journal Article Assignment
Find 1 peer reviewed journal article pertaining to your career using the library research information you learned in class. Write a brief 100+ word summary of the article you found below. Make sure to include the AMA citation at the end of the document. Add a link to the article if you are able.
This assignment is due Thursday September 7th by 12:00 pm.
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In this article by Jay Alberts and Susan Linder, a study is conducted about the use of biomechanics to understand and potentially manage immediate and long-term effects of concussions on the brain and body. The article covers what a concussion is, what the immediate effects of a concussion can be and what long-term effects can come from concussions. The article goes on to talk about what athletic trainers (or any medical professional that is working with athletes) need to do to document and evaluate concussions in a contact sport setting. Then, the article goes into more detail on how to understand what the long-term effects of concussions are and what they can do to a person’s mind and body. Kinesiology is another topic covered as it is possible that exercise impacts more than just cardiovascular health. The study also showed kinesiology to change brain function in those with neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and those who have experienced a stroke. All in all, the article showed what effects concussions can have on a person and how the medical field may be able to help lessen the long-term effects with kinesiology.
ReplyDeleteAlberts J, Linder S. The Utilization of Biomechanics to Understand and Manage the Acute and Long-term Effects of Concussion. Kinesiology Review [serial online]. February 2015;4(1):39-51. Available from: SPORTDiscus with Full Text, Ipswich, MA. Accessed September 3, 2017
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Ankle injuries, specifically ankle sprains, are the most common lower extremity injury. Another common injury in the lower extremity is an ACL tear. In this article, they tried to see if there was a connection between ankle sprains and ACL tears. They conducted surveys of incidence to try and figure this out. The study group for this survey was collegiate woman’s basketball players and professional women’s basketball players. To do this experiment they handed all the athletes, that agreed to participate, surveys and if they did not understand certain information then the distributor was allowed to answer questions they had. The information was collected after that to be analyzed. At the end once all the data was analyzed it came out that athletes with a history of ankle sprains did not have a higher chance of tearing their ACL’s.
ReplyDeleteGordon A, DiStefano L, Denegar C, Ragle R, Norman J, Cheatham S. College and professional women’s baskteball players’ lower extremity injuries: a survey of career incidence. International Journal Of Athletic Therapy & Training [serial online]. September 2014;19(5):25-33. Available from: SPORTDiscus with Full Text, Ipswich, MA. Accessed September 5, 2017.
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Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, also known as TOS, is a disorder where certain nerves or blood vessels are being compressed in the cervical and thoracic vertebrae. Symptoms commonly include pain in the upper arm/shoulder area, numbness and tingling in the hands or fingers, and pain in the neck. A study was done on a 55 year old male weight lifter who had a two year history of left shoulder pain. He encountered the symptoms and noticed them mainly when he bench pressed.The doctor put him under several tests to see what was going on and he found no neurological damage. Physical therapy was initiated for 12 weeks to help focus on manual therapy and exercise. He was able to avoid surgery due to the physical therapy and other forms of treatment.
ReplyDeleteBilly G., Neurologic thoracic outlet syndrome: a case report and clinical review. Human Kinetics [serial online]. June 2016;21(5):14-20. Available from: SPORTDicsus with full text, Ipswich, MA. Accessed September 6, 2017.
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Shoulder dislocation is beyond common in physical sports. But something I found rather interesting was that shoulder dislocation could in a sense be "genetic". In the article I read, from the International Journal of Sports Medicine, doctors conducted a study through old databases to find out if shoulder dislocation could be affected by genetics. What they found was that individuals who have expierenced this injury and have passed on their genetic codes, gave their offspring a 69% increased risk for shoulder dislocation. This discovery is important because it could inform athletes how high of a risk they are at for injury. It sounds crazy at first, but it is definitely something that should be looked into.
ReplyDeleteKim S, Kleimeyer J, Ioannidis J, et al. A Genetic Marker Associated with Shoulder Dislocation. International Journal Of Sports Medicine [serial online]. June 2017;38(7):508-514. Available from: SPORTDiscus with Full Text, Ipswich, MA. Accessed September 6, 2017.
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DeleteConcussions are such a simple but tricky thing to deal with. We know how they are caused, and what they do. It is just incredibly difficult to stop concussions in sports. In the NFL they are making it illegal to use your head in tackles, making new helmets and creating new techniques to get the head out of the game. It gets even harder for other sports though. Girls soccer is known for having the highest rate of concussions in sports. Because when the girls go for a header, they stick their neck out and which causes their heads to be vulnerable. The only real way to fix it for the girls is to train themselves constantly to tuck their head or just wear helmets, which I do not see happening anytime soon. New research is always coming out to protect the athlete and their brains.
ReplyDeletePiazza S. Why is it so hard to stop sports concussions?. American Scientist [serial online]. 2014;(5):346. Available from: Opposing Viewpoints in Context, Ipswich, MA. Accessed September 6, 2017.
This article by Mashfiqul A. Siddiqui discusses the dislocation of the patella and the management of a rare injury. Knee locking is known as superior patella dislocation, it is not an uncommon injury. The most common cause of this injury is a torn meniscus or loose body. They made an important case finding about a superior dislocation of the patella this is an uncommon injury for the knee it has only been reported a couple times. This rare injury that was studied was caused by an eccentric muscular contraction it had no signs of previous trauma. Identification of this injury early on will promote reduction maneuvers for future patients. This article discussed different types superior patella dislocations and different ways to treat these injuries.
ReplyDeleteSiddiqui, M. A., & Tan, M. H. (2010). Locked knee from superior dislocation of the patella-diagnosis and management of a rare injury. Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy,19(4), 671-673. doi:10.1007/s00167-010-1330-y
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ACL tears to female athletes are one of the more common worried about injuries. This could possibly be prevented by focusing on strengthening the core, better ones balance, and strengthening of the hips. A study was preformed to 40 female college athletes to see if those three things could actually help prevent ACL tears. I found it interesting that by possibly strengthening your core could prevent you from tearing you ACL. Although it was found that there was no connection between core and hip strength, I think it is very important to continue to research preventions to ACL tears. ACL tears require a lot of therapy and time away from the game, so being able to find things that could lessen the chance of a tear would be extremely beneficial to all athletes.
ReplyDeleteAmbegaonkar J, Mettinger L, Caswell S, Burtt A, Cortes N. RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CORE ENDURANCE, HIP STRENGTH, AND BALANCE IN COLLEGIATE FEMALE ATHLETES. International Journal Of Sports Physical Therapy [serial online]. October 2014;9(5):604-616. Available from: SPORTDiscus with Full Text, Ipswich, MA. Accessed September 6, 2017.
This article discussed the differences in the electromechanical delay, EMD, in young female soccer players and how the length of the EMD was related to the risk of an ACL tear, the longer the EMD the greater the risk of and ACL injury. They discussed how the EMD is shorter in men and women than those of girls and boys and how the EMD increases with fatigue. In this specific study however they wanted to determine the how age in young elite female soccer players played a role in the length of the EMD, and therefore in their risk for an ACL injury, during fatigue. They determined that the U13 athletes were at the most risk for injury after fatigue, with the longest EMD, compared to U15 and U17 athletes.
ReplyDeleteDe Ste Croix M. B. A., Priestley A.M., Lloyd R.S., Oliver J. L.. ACL injury risk in elite female youth soccer:
Changes in neuromuscular control of the knee following
soccer-specific fatigue. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2015: 25: e531–e538 doi: 10.1111/sms.12355.
In this article, Samir K. Trehan and Andrew J Weiland speak about the injuries that most commonly happens in baseball or softball. The three main body parts where you commonly see injuries are the elbow, wrist and hand. There were studies in the article that shows and explains how each injury is detrimental in it’s own way. In the elbow, they touch on the Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL), this injury decreases throwing velocity and control. There were other examples of injuries that occur in the wrist, hand, or elbow such as Microvascular Trauma, Digital Ischemia, Axillary Artery Aneurysm, etc. They also give ways to treat some of these injuries in the article.
ReplyDeleteTrehan S, Weiland A. Baseball and Softball Injuries: Elbow, Wrist, and Hand. April 4th, 2015. pp. 826-830.
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This article is very interesting to me because I am a cheerleader. The introduction of this piece is a story of a 14 year old girl, Ashley Burns, who bleed to death from a ruptured spleen after performing a complicated cheerleading stunt. This incident is very surprising to people because most do not believe cheerleading is a sport, let alone deadly. However, cheerleading has evolved into the most dangerous female sport in the world, with regards to catastrophic injuries. Due to this fact, researchers are starting to want athletic trainers or a form of on-site medical personnel at each practice or competition. The article then moves into discussion of cheerleading being considered a sport. Currently cheerleading is not considered a sport by either college or high school organizations, such as NCAA or OHSSA. Being highly active with cheerleading, I do personally consider it a sport due to the amount of strength and endurance that is required for the activity. I have enjoyed reading this research article because it has to do with two things I am high interested in, cheerleading and athletic training.
ReplyDeleteNAKAJIMA M, VALDEZ JM. Implementing athletic trainers for the management of cheerleading injuries. The journal of physcial education, recreation & dance. 2013; 20-25.
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The article I read was called the “Effects of physical training and sports on university students' stress tolerance rates”. In summary, they surveyed a few groups of different students and measured their stress levels with their education and other activities. They surveyed volleyball players, a fitness group, a physical training group and a body conditioning group. The experiment had different results. The more strenuous activity groups had more changes in their social lives. They were more likely to become irritable and have mood swings. This article was interesting to me because I play baseball and do strength and conditioning training a lot so I was curious to see if the test groups felt stress as I do sometimes with mixing education and extra-curricular activities.
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Knee injuries are one of the most common injuries that can happen in high school and collegiate sports. This article talks about sex differences in ACL, MCL, and meniscal injuries. The study was to compare the incidences in different sports and from male to female knee injuries. Ultimately, they found that female athletes were two times more likely to obtain and ACL injury, male athletes were more likely to have an MCL injury, however there wasn’t a noticeable sex difference in meniscal tears. There have been many tries in sports medicine to have prevention programs, but the injuries keep happening.
ReplyDeleteStanley LE, Kerr ZY, Dompier TP, Padua DA. Sex Differences in the Incidence of Anterior Cruciate Ligament, Medial Collateral Ligament, and Meniscal Injuries in Collegiate and High School Sports. The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 2016;44(6):1565-1572. doi:10.1177/0363546516630927.
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The 2014 article was written to give the results of a conducted experiment to determine if the Body Mass Index in children and adolescents worldwide was correlated to be higher with the consumption of fast food. The study consisted of a questionnaire to collect data and then after using a linear mixed model to interpret the data. Conclusively, it was determined there was an association between a high frequency of fast-food consumption and higher BMIs in 6–7-year-old children, but this association was reversed in adolescents. This does not mean that adolescents will not be affected by high consumption of fast food. Due to the questionnaire that was given it is possible that responses were fabricated; therefore, shifting results. This article is closely related to my major, Health Science, and maybe one day with my future career in the health field.
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1. Braithwaite I. Fast-food consumption and body mass index in children and adolescents: an international cross-sectional study. BMJ. 2014;4(12). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4265088/. Accessed September 6, 2016.
This article talks briefly about the importance of sports to adolescence, how it is beneficial to their physical, mental, emotional health and social well-being. The article shows a study that was done to examine that effects of injuries to children from 13-15 years of age, with a wide spread of countries around the world. It was done to see the time it takes for a child to heal in each of the communities they were part of, to see if the wealth or resources affected the time it takes for an athlete to completely heal from a serious injury that they have suffered during participation of the sport they were involved in. The results of the researched showed that lower-income communities had a slower healing rate, the researched determined it was because they did not have the appropriate resources to properly take care of the patients.
ReplyDelete1. Street, E. J., & Jacobsen, K. H. (2017). Prevalence of Sports Injuries Among 13- to 15-Year-Old Students in 25 Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Journal of Community Health, 42(2), 295-302. doi:10.1007/S10900-016-0255-X
The article I read discussed the difference between playing on artificial turf and real grass and the likeliness of tearing the anterior cruciate ligament for NCAA athletes. The study consisted of comparing 10,000 athletes for each grass and turf and seeing how many players injured the ACL for either. The results of the study showed that athletes playing on artificial turf are more likely to tear their ACL than those playing on grass. The rate of tearing your ACL on artificial grass in the study was showed to be 1.39 times higher. In conclusion, you are probably more likely to tear your ACL on turf but it's not a big difference.
ReplyDelete1. Dragoo, J., Braun, H., & Harris, A. (2013). The effect of playing surface on the incidence of ACL injuries in National Collegiate
Athletic Association American Football. The Knee, 20(3), 191-195. doi:10.1016/J.KNEE.2012.07.006
Eli Haire
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For my research topic I read the article titled Accessing Intentions to Eat a Healthful Diet Among National Athletic Collegiate Association, I chose to study done by a “Dr. Pawlak” showed how important healthy diets incorporate into a student athlete's life, no matter their division, location, race, sex or age. During my research I learned that there is actually a huge difference in the typical nutrition of the multiple divisions of athletes. DUring my reading I found studies and reports of diets that athletes were put on by their school. It was determined most athletes had a positive out take and a healthy and nutritional diet, and that a healthier diet also led to stronger focus in the sport, and also in the classroom. A healthy diet also boosted endurance, and behavioral decisions in general. I also learned that even though your coach acts as a mentor, the strongest influence for on and off the field behavior comes from family members. It was said in a study, that another huge factor in the dietary decisions was also an athlete's schedule, as some said they either did, or didn't have time to get around to eating well, interestingly enough I know myself and may fellow friends and athletes her at Heidelberg can relate to some of these claims. A big claim this studied showed was that most male athletes were influenced by their families, while females were by fans. Personally, I love my family to death, but I do enjoy seeing a big crowd come out to a home game.
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DeleteThis article was very intriguing to me. It discussed how frequent and inappropriate training for track at young ages usually around the ages 13-17 typically lead to severe consequences. There was a test done in Australia that found results out of 103 young runners, that 92 percent of them suffered an injury between ages 13-17. These injuries were typically ankle, quad, hamstring, or core injuries. This training overload affected some of these athletes long term. Fourteen of these 103 athletes surveyed said they had to quit running due to the indies they suffered from the high intensity training. This is not only happening in Australia, as other research in this article indicated that a mere 7% of the top twenty 15 year old English runners were in the top 20 runners ten years later. While not all of that is due to injury, it is known that injury at a young age caused a high percentage of those runners to retire which is very unfortunate. Being a track athlete and also having an interest in sports medicine, this article caught my attention because making people aware of this and training young athletes appropriately can save the careers of many fantastic runners.
ReplyDeleteHuxley DJ, Oconnor D, Healey PA. An examination of the training profiles and injuries in elite youth track and field athletes. European Journal of Sport Science. 2013;14(2):185-192.
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In "Effects of 8 Weeks’ Specific Physical Training on the Rotator Cuff Muscle Strength and Technique of Javelin Throwers," the author describes an experiment done on collegiate javelin throwers to test the effectiveness of specific physical training on the rotator cuff. The participant's bodies were measured three times by a body composition analyzer. The training included weight training 1 to 2 times a week, javelin specific training 3-4 times a week, and FMS training three times a week. After the 8 weeks of training, there was no significant change was found in the internal rotation measurements. However there was a significant increase in muscle strength and throwing distance.
ReplyDeleteKim H, Lee Y, Shin I, Kim K, Moon J. Effects of 8 Weeks’ Specific Physical Training on the Rotator Cuff Muscle Strength and Technique of Javelin Throwers. Journal of Physical Therapy Science. 2014;26(10):1553-1556. doi:10.1589/jpts.26.1553.
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ReplyDeleteAthletic training is vastly changing as the years pass. It is very important to make sure that all athletic trainers and future athletic trainers keep up to date with changes in the practice. According to the article Athletic Trainers and the National Health Agenda: Promoting Health Behavior Change by Jason C. Craddock, Rose M. Pignataro, Charles O. Daramola from Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, FL, that it is the athletic trainers job to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to. There are so many obstacles that people face when trying to preform physical activities. Some obstacles may be environmental conditions, health conditions, or even mental conditions. An athletic trainers job is to work with a patient to help them overcome an obstacle that they may have. The Transtheoretical Model of Health Behavior Change is a model that can be used by ATCs to gain an understanding of why a patient may choose to do physical activity. There are five stages: one precontemplation which is not wanting to do any sorts of physical activity. Two contemplation which is where they are thinking about beginning physically active, three preparation which is assessing the patient to try and figure out what they can and cannot do. Four action which is when an individual has started the process of being more active, and five maintenance which is where an individual has been successful in their program and can do it alone without assistance. During these five steps are when the athletic trainer should find out what injuries that the patient may have and fix or help prevent them from happening again. It is the athletic trainers job to make sure that all athletes who are interested in partaking in physical activities do so the right way and a healthy way.
Craddock J, Pignataro R, Daramola C. Athletic Trainers and the National Health Agenda: Promoting Health Behavioral Change. Clinical Kinesiology (online Edition)[serial online]. Winter2016 2016 44-51. Available from: SPORTDiscus with Fill Text, Ipswich, MA. Accessed September 7, 2017.
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DeleteAdolescence is a time of great change mentally, hormonally, and physically. Entering a new chapter of their lives, adolescents gain the capability to think and reason differently, gaining their own perspectives on life. This period of time is accompanied with a large amount stress and turmoil. This endured stress leads many teenagers to seek out counseling, as they face many pressing issues. The authors of my article focused upon three of the major issues faced by individuals, including stress, depression, and weight-related issues. These three problems are all predictive of suicidality in college students. The rate of suicide amongst college age teenagers is increasing, causing researchers to conduct studies to determine the specific impact and influence these three things elicit. During the study, different questions were asked to 872 undergraduate and graduate students attending DePaul University, to measure their depressive symptoms, stress levels, and weight-related issues. The results included several findings. One, depression is a mediator between stress, weight-related issues, and both of their relationships with suicidality. Secondly, it was discovered that stress is a direct indicator of suicidality, whereas weight-related issues alone do not have such a direct effect. Third, gender differences emerged through this study, indicating that the mediation of depression between stress, weight-related issues, and suicidality is actually higher in females compared to in males. These results serve as a starting point for more research, and the hope that new findings will help to advance established counseling practices, combating suicide rates in college students.
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