Associations of Collegiate Football Career and Incident Concussion with Players' Health: A Longitudinal Study from the CARE Consortium
Overall, collegiate football players demonstrated small, non-clinically meaningful improvements in neurocognitive function and postural stability. Moreover, athletes who experienced a concussion reported slight improvements in physical/psychological health symptoms over their collegiate careers.
Authors
- Thomas W. McAllister (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0267-3076)
- Michael McCrea (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9791-9475)
- Paul F. Pasquina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2898-0082)
- Steven P. Broglio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2282-9325)
- Katherine J. Hunzinger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4599-8543)
- Thomas A. Buckley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0515-0150)
- Jaclyn B. Caccese (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2329-3603)
- Andrea Schneider (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4674-7244)
- Connor A. Law (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5084-7089)
- Rachael M Wittmer
Institutions
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (US)
- Thomas Jefferson University (US)
- Medical College of Wisconsin (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (US)
- Indiana University School of Medicine
- The Ohio State University (US)
- Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- University of Delaware (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Sports Medicine
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-025-02234-1
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.35
Funders
- U.S. Department of Defense
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- University of Pennsylvania
- Wake Forest University
- Michigan State University
- Temple University
- College of Engineering, Michigan State University
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- Wake Forest School of Medicine
- Combat Casualty Care Research Program
- U.S. Naval Academy
- U.S. Air Force Academy