Emerging data on the incidence of concussion in football practice at all levels of amateur play

Abstract

There has been increasing concern, particularly in the US, about potential long-term neurological deterioration syndromes seen in the US football players. Recurrent concussions are a potential area of concern. The authors of this paper have used data bases from three levels of amateur US football to identify the rate and risk of concussion injury in both football games and practice at the youth, high school, and college levels. This information is very important initial data around concussion rates at these levels.

Keywords:

• Concussion
• American football
• CTE
• ALS
• youth football
• high school football
• college football

Declaration of interests

RM Guthrie declares the following disclosures: Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Lilly/Boehringer/Ingelheim partnership, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Relypsa Pharmaceuticals and Informa (Editor in Chief of The Physician and SportsMedicine). The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.