Local police officers and other external law enforcement officers are ubiquitous in emergency departments (EDs) across the country. But the job of law enforcement to protect public safety can sometimes conflict with clinicians’ dedication to patient care while putting...
Carmen Alvarez presented at The ISTSS 40th Annual Meeting: Advancing Translational Science in Traumatic Stress Studies. The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies took place September 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts. Click here to email the author (opens...
An analysis from the Ivy League – Big Ten Epidemiology of Concussion Study found that a disproportionate amount of football concussions were happening during kickoff plays, where both teams are running towards each other at high speed. These findings were communicated...
One Penn volleyball player had many force plate scans over her career. We found that her musculoskeletal (MSK) health score decreased steadily over her career – the score was developed to assess susceptibility to injury where a lower MSK health score is a proposed...
An analysis from the Ivy League – Big Ten Epidemiology of Concussion Study found that there were three common “profiles” observed in the collegiate athletes following return-to-sport and return-to-academic protocol. The profiles were distinct from one another in terms...
We found that most athletes did not show a significant change in SPARTA metrics after a long hiatus due to COVID-19-related bans on collegiate athletic activities. However, it should be noted that we did not have data on what athletes were doing during the hiatus,...