Thesis (doctoral)--La Salle University, 2004. / ProQuest dissertations and theses ; AAT 3139152. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 26-32).

Thesis (doctoral)--La Salle University, 2004. / ProQuest dissertations and theses ; AAT 3139153. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 33-37).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 390-395). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Bakgrund: Fotboll är en av världens största idrotter och står för en stor del av alla sportrelaterade skador. Skadorna kan leda till nedsatt hälsa, kostnader för samhället samt slutet av en spelarkarriär. Hittills har forskningen främst fokuserats på träning när det gäller skadeförebyggande åtgärder. Det finns även andra faktorer som kan minska skaderisken men som i dagsläget inte utforskats i samma utsträckning. Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka uppfattningar och erfarenheter, hos fysioterapeuter till elitfotbollslag, rörande orsaker till skador samt viktiga komponenter för skadeförebyggande arbete inom elitfotboll. Metod: Studien har en kvalitativ ansats med deskriptiv design. Fem semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes och bearbetades genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Inom ”Orsaker till skador” identifierades fem kategorier; ”Fysisk belastning”, ”Psykisk- och social press”, ”Tränartyp”, ”Spelsituation” och ”Social situation”. ”Komponenter för skadeförebyggande arbete” genererade sex kategorier; ”Lagets resurser”, ”Planera belastning”, ”Kommunikation mellan medicinska teamet, tränarna och spelarna”, ”Utbildning av medicinska teamet, tränarna och spelarna”, ”Hitta balans i spelarnas vardag” och ”Hur spelarna mår fysiskt och psykiskt”. Konklusion: Flera aspekter påverkar uppkomsten av skador och därav behöver flera komponenter tas i beaktning vid förebyggandet av dessa. Vidare studier behövs för att täcka in ytterligare områden och för att kunna dra slutsatser om vilka av de möjliga komponenterna som bör prioriteras. / Background: Soccer is the world´s biggest sport and is responsible for a lot of all the sports related injuries. These injuries can result in impaired health, expenses for the society and the end of a career. The main focus of today´s research regarding injury preventions are different types of training. There may also be other components that might reduce the risk of getting injured that hasn´t been explored as much.  Purpose: The aim was to investigate the perceptions and experiences of physiotherapists working for elite soccer clubs, regarding causes of injuries and important injury preventive methods. Method: A qualitative descriptive design was used in this study. Five semi structured interviews were performed and a qualitative content analysis was used. Result: Based on ”Causes of injuries”, five categories were identified; "Physical load", "Psychological and social pressure", "Type of trainer", "Game situation" and "Social situation". ”Injury prevention methods” generated six categories; "The team´s resources", "Planning Load", "Communication between the medical team, coaches and players", "Education of the medical team, coaches and players", "Finding balance in players' everyday life," and "How the players feel physically and psyochologically." Conclusion: Several aspects affect the occurrence of injuries, and therefore several components need to be taken into account in the prevention of these. Further studies are needed to cover additional areas and to draw conclusions about which of the possible components that should be prioritized.

The aim of this study is to set forth an accurate account of the development of football headgear. It is a written record o the birth of such equipment, for the protection of football players from serious injuries, to the present day.

A stratified random sample of 400 head football coaches was surveyed in order to evaluate their professional preparation in regard to the prevention and care of athletic injuries, Of the 259 responding coaches, it was found that a significant number were not properly prepared when compared to the standards suggested by the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. It was recommended that individuals who desire to coach in Texas should be required to obtain an endorsement for coaching using the standards suggested by the American Association for Health, Physical Education., and Recreation as the minimum standards.

Graduation date: 2004

Dissertation submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master’s Degree in Technology: Chiropractic, Durban University of Technology, 2010. / Objective: Majority of studies to date have focused on injury profiles and types of injuries in rugby, without looking at the risk factors associated and the management of these injuries. It was thus the aim of this study to determine the risk factors and management of rugby injuries in the greater Durban area. Methods: This was a prospective, cross-sectional based study, using a self-administered questionnaire, developed specifically for this research utilizing a focus group and pilot study. The questionnaire details a patient injury history, rugby history, resources, management, coaching and training parameters. Letters of informed consent and the questionnaire were distributed to 300 players / coaches for completion and data was analysed using Pearson’s correlation and t-tests. Results: A response rate of 70% (n=210) was achieved. Selected risk factors were found to be significantly related to current and / or previous injury. New risk factors which did significantly impact injury, were also determined. Conclusion: It is advised that coaches and players take note of significant injury risk factors and management protocols in order to improve player health and decrease injury risk. Further research may look into the factors identified in order to set up better structures in order to prevent further injuries.

Previous research has examined factors that predispose collegiate football players to injury (e.g., Petrie, 1993a, 1993b) as well as factors that influence athletes' psychological adjustment to being injured (e.g., Brewer, 1993; Leddy, Lambert, & Ogles, 1994). Despite the reports of the NCAA Injury Surveillance System that the greatest number of football injuries occur during the spring preseason (NCAA, 1997), studies have only examined injury during the regular season. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the antecedents and consequences of injury in collegiate football players during the spring preseason and across the regular competitive season. Specifically, life stress, social support, competitive trait anxiety, athletic identity, coping style, and preinjury mood state was measured to determine their relationship with the occurrence of injury and with postinjury emotional responses in athletes who sustain an injury at some point during either the spring preseason or regular competitive football season. The overall incidence of athletic injuries was low and the athletes suffered more severe injuries than has been typically found in collegiate football samples. Negative life stress was found to be directly related to the occurrence of injury and to postinjury negative emotional response and was moderated by other psychosocial variables in its influence on the occurrence of injury. Positive life stress was unrelated to injury risk or postinjury emotional response. Social support, sport anxiety, coping, and athletic identity were all found to moderate the negative life stress-injury relationship, as did playing status, suggesting that the complex combinations of these variables increase athletes' susceptibility to the impact of negative life stress. The athletes in this study experienced significant negative emotions following injury. After sustaining injuries they experienced levels of anger, depression, and fatigue that were similar to male psychiatric patients. Injury severity and preinjury mood were found to be the best predictors of postinjury emotional response. Of the psychosocial variables, only social support and sport anxiety were found to be predictive of negative emotional responses following injury. Previously identified relationships between postinjury emotional responses and situational and dispositional variables were replicated and extended.

Tackle football has been one of the most popular sports for boys in the United States since the mid-twentieth century. This dissertation examines how debates over the safety of football for children at the high school level and younger have changed from 1945 through the present. After World War II, the expansion of youth tackle football leagues, particularly for pre-pubescent children, fostered a new range of medical and educational concerns. Yet calls for limits on tackle football were largely obscured by the political and social culture of the Cold War, including beliefs about violence, masculinity, and competition. A broad range of groups and individuals were involved in debating the safety of youth football throughout the remainder of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. These groups included doctors, coaches, educators, lawyers, engineers, parents, athletes, journalists, and sporting goods manufacturers. Their arguments over the risks and benefits of youth football involved not only the sport’s effects on physical health, but also on social and emotional well-being. By the 1970s, researchers were applying injury epidemiology methods to studying key mechanisms involved in football injuries, while a broader consumer product safety movement contributed to the development of the first football helmet standards. Football equipment not only remained a primary focus of football safety debates, but often symbolized safety itself. Sporting goods manufacturers largely succeeded in framing the issue of football safety as a matter of individual responsibility. The social position of children and their communities shaped debates over the risks and benefits of football, including the sport’s spectator nature. By the early twentieth-first century, concerns about football-related brain injuries at all levels of the sport emerged as a topic of national debate. New medical findings and the reporting and advocacy of journalists and former athletes contributed to increasing awareness of brain trauma in the sport. Debates over the appropriate policy recommendations to make in the context of uncertainty over youth football’s long-term consequences have persisted since 1945 through the present.