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Results: Concussion, Playing Experience, and Long-Term …

WEBThese findings shed light on how concussions, NFL career length, and playing position may impact your long-term cognitive and mental health. You will also find some action steps and resources to help you be proactive about these aspects of …

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Maximizing the Health of Former NFL Players: …

WEBYour participation in these studies is vital to our mission to better understand and improve former player health. We look forward to your feedback and continued involvement as we collectively strive to improve the health and lives of former NFL players. Our contact info is: [email protected].

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Football Players Health Study Enters Next Phase

WEBIn this next phase, the research program will explore an early aging hypothesis based on evidence that has emerged from prior work. The study will focus on aging and longevity, the connection of heart health to brain health, and a biospecimen repository. Additionally, a series of new research projects will be developed based on …

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Number of Years in NFL, Certain Positions Portend …

WEBNumber of Years in NFL, Certain Positions Portend Greater Risk for Cognitive, Mental Health Problems in Former Players. At a glance: Study shows link between longer NFL career and higher risk of cognitive, mental health problems

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Listening to NFL Players: On Mental Health

WEBThe report was published in the September 2018 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology. While many players expressed pride and happiness with their careers, many also reported feelings of depression, anxiety, anger, loneliness, and stress during and after their time on the field. The research is based on interviews with 25 …

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Executive Summary

WEBIndeed, the comprehensive mantra of the Football Players Health Study, “The Whole Player, The Whole Life,” motivates our definition. “Health” clearly covers the conventional and uncontroversial reference to freedom from physical and mental illness and impairment. But health is much more than the mere absence of a malady.

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Recommendations to Improve NFL Player Health

WEBNovember 17, 2016 – The Football Players Health Study at Harvard University today released a set of legal and ethical recommendations to address a series of structural factors that affect NFL player health. The Football Players Health Study is a research initiative composed of several ongoing studies examining the health and wellbeing of NFL

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Results: Unexpected Consequences of Concussion

WEBThis evidence, along with our findings, suggest that ED and hormone dysfunction are, in part, physically-based issues brought on by repeated head injury. The graph below is an illustration of the relationship between ED and loss of consciousness – one of the 10 concussion symptoms we studied. It demonstrates how the percentage of …

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Study Points to Health Disparities Among Former NFL Players

WEBThe analysis, based on self-reports among former NFL players, found that Black players were significantly more likely than white players to experience diminished quality of life due to impaired physical function, pain, cognitive troubles, depression, and anxiety. In four of five health outcomes, the gaps were greatest between Black and …

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Concussions and Cognitive Performance

WEBThe Football Players Health Study, launched in 2014, is a comprehensive research program dedicated to examining the multifactorial causes that impact the health of former NFL players. The research has been informed by the players themselves, who have provided input on the health concerns and conditions they face after a career in football.

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Study of Former NFL Players Reveals Racial Disparities in Chronic …

WEBStudy News. Offensive and Defensive Strategies for Men’s Health Webinar – September 26, 2023 ; Examining Race Trends in the NFL: Diversity, but not Inclusion

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Unexpected Finding: In-Person Assessment Study of Former NFL …

WEBUnexpected Finding: In-Person Assessment Study of Former NFL Players Leads to Treatable Neurological Condition. Five Questions with Adam Tenforde, MD, associate professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, and co-investigator, In-Person Assessment Study, Football Players Health …

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A Proposal to Address NFL Club Doctors’ Conflicts of Interest and …

WEBA Proposal to Address NFL Club Doctors’ Conflicts of Interest and to Promote Player Trust. by I. Glenn Cohen, holly Fernandez lynCh, and ChrIstopher r. deubert. Football is America’s game, but the potential health consequences of the sport are increasingly taking center stage. From major media outlets to feder-al research funding …

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After the Game Is Over

WEBAfter the Game Is Over. Last year, some 182 million viewers tuned in to watch American football, a high-impact sport that evidence indicates has lifelong health consequences for players. “But when the television set goes off, a lot of people forget about us,” says Pro Football Hall of Famer Jackie Slater, who played 20 seasons as an

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Protecting and Promoting the Health of NFL Players: Executive …

WEB12. \ Protecting and Promoting the Health of NFL Players Protecting and Promoting the Health of NFL Players 1 ) NTRI ODUOCTNI Who is responsible for the health of NFL players, why, and what can be done to promote player health? These are the fundamental questions motivating this Report, authored by

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