145-230 Sports, Your Health, and Your Future

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Goal: Student-athletes will be aware of health problems linked to athletics
Objective: Student-athletes will be able to list at least four symptoms of concussions

1. Introduction

2. Definition of main terms
  • Concussion (Patel, D., Shivdasani, V., & Baker, R. (2005). Management of Sport-Related Concussion in Young Athletes. Sports Medicine, 35 (8), p. 674)
  • Major Depression
  • Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)

3. Video of Owen Thomas
  • Univ. of Pennsylvania football team captain who committed suicide
  • Doctors at Boston University researched brain and found earliest known example of CTE
  • Rinaldi, T. (Reporter). (2010). OTL: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy. [Web]. Retrieved from http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5591963

4. Analysis of Brain Imaging (http://www.bu.edu/alzresearch/cste/)
  • View slides of brain tissue from a healthy brain vs brain tissue of someone with CTE
  • Comparing CTE brain tissue with Alzheimer's

5. Symptoms of concussion
  • (Patel, D., Shivdasani, V., & Baker, R. (2005). Management of Sport-Related Concussion in Young Athletes. Sports Medicine, 35 (8), p. 676)

6. Concussion and Effects
Concussion Grading System (Patel, D., Shivdasani, V., & Baker, R. (2005). Management of Sport-Related Concussion in Young Athletes. Sports Medicine, 35 (8), p. 675)
  • Grade 1: No loss of consciousness, slight confusion, no/little memory loss, rapid recovery
  • Grade 2: Loss of consciousness for less than five minutes, momentary confusion, mild amnesia, complete recovery within five minutes
  • Grade 3: Loss of consciousness for more than five minutes, confusion for more than five minutes, prolonged amnesia, slow recovery

7. Effects of Concussion (Sigurdardottir, S., Andelic, N., Roe, C., Jerstad, T., & Schanke, A. (2009). Post-concussion symptoms after traumatic brain injury at 3 and 12 months post-injury: A prospective study. Brain Injury, 23 (6), 489-497.)
  • Cognitive (memory, concentration, time it takes to think)
  • Emotional (irritability, depression, frustration, restlessness)
  • Somatic (headache, dizziness, nausea, noise sensitivity, fatigue, blurred/double vision, light sensitivity)
  • Health issues: neck pain, arm stiffness, dry mouth, pain, itching

7. Adverse Effects of Sport Injury over Lifespan and How this can Affect Career Development (Wiese-Bjornstal, D. (2009). Sport Injury and College Athlete Health Across the Lifespan. Journal of Intercollegiate Sports, 2 (1), p. 70)
  • Adverse Effects from Youth to College to Adulthood
    • General physical health
    • Orthopedic (musculoskeletal) health
    • Athletic Performance
    • Social-Cultural
    • Emotional-Mental
    • Cognitive Academic
    • Ethical

8. Conclusion