Research co-authored by Research Core Director Dr. James Eckner does not necessarily support the notion that participation in sports associated with exposure to repetitive head impacts has clinically meaningful cumulative effects over the course of a season nor over four consecutive seasons in high school and collegiate athletes. He compared pre-season to post-season changes on a battery of clinical neurological outcome measures between non-contact, contact, and collision sport athletes over multiple seasons of play.

Director Steve Broglio’s co-authored research “Early Results of a Helmetless-Tackling Intervention to Decrease Head Impacts in Football Players” was featured in a piece written for The Conversation by University of Massachusetts Lowell Kinesiology Professor Eric Swartz. Swartz, who co-authored the research, touches on the research findings that helmetless tackling and blocking drills did reduce head impact in college and high school players who took part in a randomized controlled clinical trial.

Director Steve Broglio and members of the CARE Consortium published research focusing on the relationship between the physiological recovery and clinical recovery of sport-related concussion. Click the link below to discover their findings.