scholarly journals The Effect of Psychological Factors on Athletic Injury and Recuperation

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Incidence Rate ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Athletic Injury ◽  
Health It ◽  
High School Athletics ◽  
Collegiate Sports ◽  
Negative Role

In spite of the evident benefits of exercise on health, it is also an irrefutable fact that exercise and injury come together as well. Over a million injuries occur each year in the United States alone, and that only counts collegiate sports; should we factor in high school athletics, professional leagues, gyms and street athletes, the incidence rate would be astounding, affecting millions of Americans. Prior research shows that injury comes from training, more that from competition. It also shows that athletes keep on training in spite of their injuries because of the pressure to compete. This project shows that psychology plays a negative role in the rate and incidence of injury; but that a positive disposition on the part of the athlete goes on to contribute in the injured athlete’s recovery. Coaches and sports federations must address the psychological factors that adversely affect injury and positively affect recovery as much as they now focus on the medical aspects of injury and recovery.

Epidemiology of Overuse Injuries in Collegiate and High School Athletics in the United States

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (7) ◽  
pp. 1790-1797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen G. Roos ◽  
Stephen W. Marshall ◽  
Zachary Y. Kerr ◽  
Yvonne M. Golightly ◽  
Kristen L. Kucera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Overuse Injuries ◽  
High School Athletics

The Preparticipation Sports Physical: Are We Dropping the Ball?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 96 (6) ◽  
pp. 1151-1153
Author(s):  
Robert M. Cavanaugh ◽  
Merrill L. Miller ◽  
Paul K. Henneberger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
High School Athletics ◽  
Health Care Benefits ◽  
Organizational Requirements

More than 7 million adolescents regularly compete in high school athletics each year in the United States.1 Most will undergo a limited, sports-oriented preparticipation evaluation before competition.2 This type of examination has been performed for many years to satisfy various legal, academic, and organizational requirements. However, the health care benefits to the teenagers themselves have not been analyzed objectively using direct comparison to the standard history and physical. At present, the value of the sports physical remains unproven and its efficacy has not been clearly established. In addition, the potential negative impact on delivery of comprehensive medical services to adolescents deserves further emphasis in the literature and, therefore, will be the focus of this commentary.

scholarly journals Epidemiology of Sudden Death in Organized Youth Sports in the United States, 2007–2015

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad D. Endres ◽  
Zachary Y. Kerr ◽  
Rebecca L. Stearns ◽  
William M. Adams ◽  
Yuri Hosokawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Sudden Death ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Youth Sports ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
The United States ◽  
Collegiate Sports ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Youth Sport Participation

Context Sudden death in sport at the high school and collegiate levels has been described extensively in the literature. However, few epidemiologic data exist on the incidence of sudden death specifically in American youth sport before secondary school athletics. Objective To describe the epidemiology of sudden death in organized youth sports in the United States from 2007 through 2015. Design Descriptive epidemiology study. Setting Organized American youth sports. Patients or Other Participants Cases of sudden death that occurred in youth athletes 17 years of age and younger in non-high school organized sports were included. Data Collection and Analysis Information on sudden deaths between August 1, 2007, and December 31, 2015, was obtained via LexisNexis and other publicly available news or media reports. Total youth sport participation rates from 2007 to 2015 were provided by the Sport & Fitness Industry Association. Athlete age, sex, sport, level of play, event type, date of death, setting, and official and speculated causes of death were examined. Data are presented as deaths per year, percentage of total sudden deaths, and deaths per 10 million participants. Results From 2007 to 2015, 45 sudden deaths were reported in American youth sports. The mean age of patients was 13 ± 2 years. The overall incidence rate was 1.83 deaths/10 million athlete-years. Males experienced a greater number of sudden deaths than females (n = 36/45, 80%). Basketball had the highest number of sudden deaths from 2007 to 2015, with a total of 16 occurrences. The most frequent cause of sudden death was cardiac related (n = 34/45, 76%). Most sudden deaths occurred during practices (n = 32/45, 71%). Conclusions Sudden deaths in organized youth sports in the United States from 2007 through 2015 were most often experienced during practices by males, were cardiac related, and occurred while playing basketball. These findings are similar to those in high school and collegiate sports. This study affirms the need for further epidemiologic research into sudden deaths at the organized youth sport level.

Medicaid Expansion and Incidence of Kidney Failure among Nonelderly Adults

2021 ◽  
pp. ASN.2020101511
Author(s):  
Rebecca Thorsness ◽  
Shailender Swaminathan ◽  
Yoojin Lee ◽  
Benjamin D. Sommers ◽  
Rajnish Mehrotra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Incidence Rate ◽  
Kidney Failure ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Relative Reduction ◽  
Medicaid Expansion ◽  
Expansion Time ◽  
Incident Cases ◽  
Medicaid Expansions

BackgroundLow-income individuals without health insurance have limited access to health care. Medicaid expansions may reduce kidney failure incidence by improving access to chronic disease care.MethodsUsing a difference-in-differences analysis, we examined the association between Medicaid expansion status under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the kidney failure incidence rate among all nonelderly adults, aged 19–64 years, in the United States, from 2012 through 2018. We compared changes in kidney failure incidence in states that implemented Medicaid expansions with concurrent changes in nonexpansion states during pre-expansion, early postexpansion (years 2 and 3 postexpansion), and later postexpansion (years 4 and 5 postexpansion).ResultsThe unadjusted kidney failure incidence rate increased in the early years of the study period in both expansion and nonexpansion states before stabilizing. After adjustment for population sociodemographic characteristics, Medicaid expansion status was associated with 2.20 fewer incident cases of kidney failure per million adults per quarter in the early postexpansion period (95% CI, −3.89 to −0.51) compared with nonexpansion status, a 3.07% relative reduction (95% CI, −5.43% to −0.72%). In the later postexpansion period, Medicaid expansion status was not associated with a statistically significant change in kidney failure incidence (−0.56 cases per million per quarter; 95% CI, −2.71 to 1.58) compared with nonexpansion status and the pre-expansion time period.ConclusionsThe ACA Medicaid expansion was associated with an initial reduction in kidney failure incidence among the entire, nonelderly, adult population in the United States; but the changes did not persist in the later postexpansion period. Further study is needed to determine the long-term association between Medicaid expansion and changes in kidney failure incidence.

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