Posts by Jane McDevitt, Ph.D., ATC
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Frequent Severe Impacts May Add Up?
Prior to a concussion, football athletes experience more head impacts at higher magnitudes compared to non-concussed athletes with similar characteristics.
Baseball Prevention Programs Prevent Poor Performance and Injury
Youth baseball players who participated in a weekly 10-minute prevention program experienced fewer shoulder or elbow injuries and improved performance compared to those that performed traditional warm-ups.
Support for Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization to Improve Outcomes
Take Home Message: Instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM) may improve range of motion in healthy individuals as well as pain and patient-reported function in people with an injury. Clinicians should consider whether the evidence is available for their specific treatment protocol, desired outcome, and patient population.
Baseball Athletes Need to Follow-Through with the Off Season
Take Home Message: Pediatric baseball athletes that reported taking at least 1 month off for an off-season were less likely to report elbow pain or have morphological abnormalities of the medial elbow joint compared to those who reported no off-season.
CTE Found In People With No History of Contact Sports
Mild Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Neuropathology in People With No Known Participation in Contact Sports or History of Repetitive Neurotrauma Iverson GL, Luoto TM, Karhunen PJ, Castellani RJ. J Neuropathol Exp…
Conservative Management May Reduce Repetitive Concussions
Return to play and risk of repeat concussion in collegiate football players: comparative analysis from the NCAA Concussion Study (1999–2001) and CARE Consortium (2014–2017) McCrea M, Broglio S, McAllister T,…
PASS Passes to Evaluate Success of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Prospective Evaluation of the Patient Acceptable Symptom State to Identify Clinically Successful Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Vega JF, Jacobs CA, Strnad GJ, Farrow L, Jones MH, Miniaci A, Parker RD,…
The Use of PROMs Among Athletic Trainers Remains Low
Use of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Athletic Training: Common Measures, Selection Considerations, and Practical Barriers.
Lam KC, Harrington KM, Cameron KL, Valier ARS. J Athl Train.2019 [Epub ahead of print]
Take Home Message: The use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) remains low among athletic trainers; however, athletic trainers who use PROMs commonly use injury- or joint-specific PROMs or single-item PROMs. Time to complete and score PROMs are important barriers to using PROMs.
The “Athletic Training Education Competencies” and the “Role Delineation/Practice Analysis” emphasizes the support for the implementation of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) into clinical practice to enhance patient care. However, athletic trainers appear reluctant to use them due to barriers such as time constraints. A better understanding of how athletic trainers perceive and use PROMs may help improve the adoption of PROMs into clinical practice. Therefore, the authors created a survey, which was distributed to ~18,000 athletic trainers to describe the commonly used PROMs, why those PROMS are selected, and barriers and reasons for not using PROMs.
Concussion History is Associated with Poor Perception
Does Concussion Affect Perception-Action Coupling Behavior? Action Boundary Perception as a Biomarker for Concussion Eagle SR, Nindl BC, Johnson CD, Kontos AP, Connaboy C. Clin J Sport Med. 2019 [Epub…
