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Sports-Related Concussion Update

A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurosurgery and Neuroanatomy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (17 March 2024) | Viewed by 1851

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Haruo Nakayama

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Department of Neurosurgery, Toho University Ohashi Medical Center, 2 Chome-22-36 Ohashi, Meguro City, Tokyo 153-8515, Japan
Interests: neuro trauma; neuro intensive care; sports-related head injury; sports-related concussion; neuro infection
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Dr. Yutaka Shigemori

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Faculty of Sports and Health Science, Fukuoka University, 8-19-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan
Interests: neuro trauma; neuro intensive care; sports-related head injury; sports-related con-cussion; sports-health
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

At the Olympics, the World Cup, and various sporting events, the great success of athletes has become a highly deliberated topic; however, at the same time, the injury of athletes unfortunately occurs.

In particular, sports-related neurological diseases have recently received great social attention. The diagnosis, treatment, and management of sports-related concussion in the short term; the impact of repeated concussion on chronic traumatic encephalopathy and degenerative diseases in the long term; and repeated head shock such as heading in the young age group. The effects of these factors are recognized as topics.

Under this perspective, the Special Issue aims to contribute new information to the field, presenting the most relevant advances in this research area.

Dr. Haruo Nakayama
Dr. Yutaka Shigemori
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • virtual reality
  • neuroscience
  • neurotechnology
  • neurorehabilitation
  • cognitive training

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Brief Report
Influence of Long-Term Use of American Football Helmets on Concussion Risk
by Yuelin Zhang, Mayuko Mitsui, Satoru Yoneyama and Shigeru Aomura
Brain Sci. 2024, 14(6), 537; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14060537 - 24 May 2024
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In this study, to discuss the influence of concussion risk from the long-term use of American football helmets on collegiate teams, accident cases during the game are replicated based on game videos by simulations using whole-body numerical models and helmeted finite element human [...] Read more.
In this study, to discuss the influence of concussion risk from the long-term use of American football helmets on collegiate teams, accident cases during the game are replicated based on game videos by simulations using whole-body numerical models and helmeted finite element human head models. The concussion risks caused by collisions were estimated using the mechanical parameters inside the skull obtained from finite element analyses. In the analyses, the different material properties of helmets identified by free-fall experiments using headform impactor-embedded helmets were used to represent brand-new and long-term-use helmets. After analyzing the five cases, it was observed that wearing a new helmet instead of a long-term-use one resulted in a reduction in the risk of concussion by 1 to 44%. More energy is attenuated by the deformation of the liners of the brand-new helmet, so the energy transferred to the head is smaller than that when wearing the long-term-use helmet. Thus, the long-term use of the helmet reduces its ability to protect the head. Full article
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A Perspective on the 6th International Conference on Sports Concussion
by Haruo Nakayama, Yu Hiramoto and Satoshi Iwabuchi
Brain Sci. 2024, 14(5), 515; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14050515 - 20 May 2024
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The International Conference on Sports Concussion, held every four years since 2001, has been instrumental in forming the international consensus on sports-related concussions. However, due to the unprecedented global pandemic of COVID-19, not only the Tokyo Olympics 2020, but also the initially scheduled [...] Read more.
The International Conference on Sports Concussion, held every four years since 2001, has been instrumental in forming the international consensus on sports-related concussions. However, due to the unprecedented global pandemic of COVID-19, not only the Tokyo Olympics 2020, but also the initially scheduled sixth conference was postponed multiple times. Finally, the 6th International Conference on Sports Concussion took place in Amsterdam at the end of October 2022. In July 2023, the Amsterdam Declaration, reflecting the outcomes of this sixth conference, was released. This paper provides an overview of the conference, in which significant updates were revealed and introduced, including revisions to the definition of sports-related concussions, as well as the latest version of the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT), known as SCAT6, the Office Assessment Tool (SCOAT), and the updated staged return-to-play protocol. Full article
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