Race Differences in Ventricular Remodeling and Function Among College Football Players

2013 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francois Haddad ◽  
Shanon Peter ◽  
Olivia Hulme ◽  
David Liang ◽  
Ingela Schnittger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ventricular Remodeling ◽  
College Football ◽  
Race Differences ◽  
Football Players ◽  
And Function

scholarly journals The Hammer and the Nail: Biomechanics of Striking and Struck Canadian University Football Players

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Brooks ◽  
Adam Redgrift ◽  
Allen A. Champagne ◽  
James P. Dickey
Keyword(s):  
College Football ◽  
Head Impact ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Video Footage ◽  
Impact Location ◽  
Rule Changes ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
The Brain

AbstractThis study sought to evaluate head accelerations in both players involved in a football collision. Players on two opposing Canadian university teams were equipped with helmet mounted sensors during one game per season, for two consecutive seasons. A total of 276 collisions between 58 instrumented players were identified via video and cross-referenced with sensor timestamps. Player involvement (striking and struck), impact type (block or tackle), head impact location (front, back, left and right), and play type were recorded from video footage. While struck players did not experience significantly different linear or rotational accelerations between any play types, striking players had the highest linear and rotational head accelerations during kickoff plays (p ≤ .03). Striking players also experienced greater linear and rotational head accelerations than struck players during kickoff plays (p = .001). However, struck players experienced greater linear and rotational accelerations than striking players during kick return plays (p ≤ .008). Other studies have established that the more severe the head impact, the greater risk for injury to the brain. This paper’s results highlight that kickoff play rule changes, as implemented in American college football, would decrease head impact exposure of Canadian university football athletes and make the game safer.

scholarly journals Increased Lateral Tibial Plateau Slope Predisposes Male College Football Players to ACL Injury

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. e7-e8
Author(s):  
Carola van Eck ◽  
Amir Azar ◽  
Zaneb Yaseen ◽  
James Irrgang ◽  
Freddie Fu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibial Plateau ◽  
Acl Injury ◽  
College Football ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Lateral Tibial Plateau ◽  
Tibial Plateau Slope ◽  
Male College

Invincible bodies: American sport media’s racialization of Black and white college football players

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-290
Author(s):  
Siduri J Haslerig ◽  
Rican Vue ◽  
Sara E Grummert
Keyword(s):  
Black People ◽  
College Football ◽  
American Football ◽  
Football Players ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
White American ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Us ◽  
Sports Programming ◽  
White College

As the most watched college sport broadcast of all time, the US Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN)’s College GameDay (CGD) is one source of socialization that primes US audiences to make certain associations. Through disaggregated analysis of regular- and post-season CGD pre-game and game-of-the-week broadcasts during the 2016 football season, the authors examine the coverage of players’ physicality and injuries, contrasting the portrayals of Black and white American football players. The paper documents prominent narratives that promoted Black players as relatively invulnerable, while making the case that these narratives serve to prime audiences to ascribe inhuman abilities to Black people and thereby reinforce white supremacist ideology.

Contribution of ventricular remodeling to pathogenesis of heart failure in rats

2001 ◽  
Vol 280 (2) ◽  
pp. H674-H683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory L. Brower ◽  
Joseph S. Janicki
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Ventricular Remodeling ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Volume Overload ◽  
Left Ventricular ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Compliance Matrix ◽  
Hypertrophic Response ◽  
Lv Volume ◽  
And Function

We previously reported an approximately 50% incidence of rats with symptoms of congestive heart failure (CHF) at 8 wk postinfrarenal aorto-caval fistula. However, it was not clear whether compensatory ventricular remodeling could continue beyond 8 wk or whether the remaining animals would have developed CHF or died. Therefore, the intent of this study was to complete the characterization of this model of sustained volume overload by determining the morbidity and mortality and the temporal response of left ventricular (LV) remodeling and function beyond 8 wk. The findings demonstrate an upper limit to LV hypertrophy and substantial increases in LV volume and compliance, matrix metalloproteinase activity, and collagen volume fraction associated with the development of CHF. There was an 80% incidence of morbidity and mortality following 21 wk of chronic volume overload. These findings indicate that the development of CHF is triggered by marked ventricular dilatation and increased compliance occurring once the myocardial hypertrophic response is exhausted.

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