{"id":104313,"date":"2019-10-07T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=104313"},"modified":"2019-10-08T10:06:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T20:06:28","slug":"football-safety-concussion-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/07\/football-safety-concussion-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Concussion study looks to improve high school football safety"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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This sensor is part of a monitoring system that measures head impacts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In each of the past 10 years, an estimated 1,000 concussions were sustained by Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> high school athletes. The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa College of Education\u2019s Department of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science<\/a> is looking at ways to reduce that number. The department\u2019s Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Concussion Awareness & Management Program (HCAMP<\/abbr>) has initiated a three-year concussion study, monitoring live-track head impacts at high school football practices and games.<\/p>\n

Pac-Five and St. Louis School football teams are participating in the HCAMP<\/abbr>. Each football player is outfitted with a specially designed helmet, which houses an impact-monitoring system that transmits data to UH<\/abbr> graduate assistants who then notify team athletic trainers to assess for possible concussion.<\/p>\n

“The goal is to decrease the number of impacts that these athletes take so the cumulative effects of impacts will be decreased,” said Ross Oshiro<\/strong>, of UH<\/abbr> Department of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science and HCAMP<\/abbr> coordinator.<\/p>\n

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Pac-Five Head Coach Kip Botelho (in background) watching drills during a recent practice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the study\u2019s first year, research personnel will be on-site at practices and games to monitor how much impact players sustain. Athletic trainers will be notified of high magnitude impacts and be able to respond immediately.<\/p>\n

Research shows that an average high school athlete takes more than three weeks to recover from a concussion.<\/p>\n

In the study\u2019s second year, Pac-Five and St. Louis players will receive the HuTT<\/abbr>®808 intervention<\/a>, which incorporates helmetless tackling and blocking training under the supervision of coaches who will have been taught the technique. In addition, a third school will be added to the study and baseline impact data will be collected.<\/p>\n

“I think it\u2019s a responsibility for us, as coaches, to do our part in trying to help prevent concussions,” said Kip Botelho, Pac-Five head football coach.<\/p>\n

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE<\/abbr>) has been linked to specific changes in the brain that affect how the brain works. Research suggests that CTE<\/abbr> is caused in part by repeated traumatic brain injuries, including concussions, and repeated hits to the head, called subconcussive head impacts. CTE<\/abbr> is a brain disease that can only be diagnosed after death according to the Centers for Disease Control.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa College of Education<\/a> Dean Nathan Murata<\/strong> and Erik Swartz, chair of the Department of Physical Therapy and Kinesiology<\/a> at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, are co-principal investigators of the study.<\/p>\n

HUTT<\/abbr>®808 is funded by the GOG<\/abbr> Foundation<\/a> to reduce head impact exposure in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> high school football players. The foundation was established in memory of the late Gary O. Galiher, a Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> attorney and UH<\/abbr> alumnus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The three-year College of Education concussion study monitors live-track head impacts at local high school football practices and games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[95,165,868,9],"class_list":["post-104313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-college-of-education","tag-health","tag-kinesiology","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104313"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104558,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104313\/revisions\/104558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}