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Articles Tagged With: football

  • Getting to the Super Bowl: Lessons from the NFL on Controlling COVID-19

    Aggressive implementation of mitigation procedures with continual evaluations and adjustments allowed the National Football League to complete their season with minimal COVID-19 transmission.

  • Neuropathology and Dementia in Football Players With CTE

    The authors of a cross-sectional study involving analysis of data from the ongoing Understanding Neurologic Injury and Traumatic Encephalopathy (UNITE) study found that dementia is likely a result of neuropathologic changes associated with repetitive head injury as well as non-head trauma-associated vascular pathologic changes in patients with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

  • Imaging of Glial Cell Activation in the Brains of Professional Football Players

    In this case-controlled study, PET scanning reflective of microglial activation and diffusion-tensor imaging assessing white matter integrity was performed on 14 National Football League players (four current, 10 retired) and compared to 16 matched controls, suggesting significant ongoing localized brain injury and repair along with subtle white matter changes in professional football players.

  • Skin Infections in Student Athletes

    Among high school and college athletes, skin infections are most common in wrestlers and football players. Bacterial infections predominate. Up to 22% of wrestlers are colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus sometime during the season.