{"id":5295,"date":"2011-11-16T10:57:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T16:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=5295"},"modified":"2011-11-16T10:57:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T16:57:46","slug":"concussive-study-yields-disturbing-enlightening-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/concussive-study-yields-disturbing-enlightening-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Concussive Study Yields Disturbing, Enlightening Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rochester Professor Finds Cumulative Effect of Football Collisions<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Evidence is mounting that routine football contact is having more of an impact on players' brains than expected.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A study by\u00a0Jianhui Zhong, a professor of imaging sciences and physics at\u00a0the University of Rochester, has produced surprising as well as\u00a0disturbing\u00a0outcomes.\u00a0 A football player on the Rochester team, Jeff Bazarian,\u00a0had experienced a mild concussion and Zhong thought that\u00a0a test his department was using for other purposes called the\u00a0Diffusion Tensor Imaging exam might shed some light on how concussions\u00a0affected players.\u00a0 Using\u00a0a 10 other players at various\u00a0positions as his\u00a0control group, what resulted\u00a0took the professor\u00a0aback.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to his findings, the\u00a0ten other players who all participated in routine\u00a0football activities such as\u00a0interior\u00a0linemen\u00a0firing off the line of scrimmage into opposing players and running backs being jostled while\u00a0running the football\u00a0showed\u00a0signs of brain damage equal to what Bazarian suffered, but without the same symptoms.\u00a0 The difference was\u00a0that Bazarian had\u00a0exhibited the\u00a0standard indicator\u00a0of a concussion, blurred vision, which\u00a0physicians\u00a0depend upon to signal that a concussion has occurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an article written by the NCAA’s Brian Hendrickson on ncaa.org, the Rochester study\u00a0“suggested the hits players endured play-to-play and week-to-week could accumulate and affect the brain\u2019s health.\u00a0 Imagine linemen\u00a0colliding, a running back getting bumped while powering through a hole, or linebackers finishing off a play. Those plays \u2013 the bedrock of game action \u2013 could be adversely affecting a player\u2019s health over time.”<\/p>\n

This, of course, points to a cumulative effect and will most certainly alter the way physicians view football-related head injuries. We can anticipate pre- and post-season skull and brain imaging to be a part of the head trauma examination process, especially for professional if not college and high school football athletes.<\/p>\n

Someone, somewhere will take this study and expand on it to learn more about how the frequency of collisions are impacting players over a single game, a season and over a career. Moreover, the Rochester results will certainly push helmet manufacturers back to the drawing board in an attempt to deliver headgear which will further protect players.\u00a0\u00a0The study’s news is, in the end, a good news bad news scenario, but in the larger scheme if\u00a0it will create\u00a0an even greater emphasis on safety,\u00a0everyone wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rochester Professor Finds Cumulative Effect of Football Collisions A study by\u00a0Jianhui Zhong, a professor of imaging sciences and physics at\u00a0the University of Rochester, has produced surprising as well as\u00a0disturbing\u00a0outcomes.\u00a0 A football player on the Rochester team, Jeff Bazarian,\u00a0had experienced a mild concussion and Zhong thought that\u00a0a test his department was using for other purposes called … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}