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Are not concussions in football vastly under reported?

Avshalom 12y ago
Every time some one does a study they find they're under reported in every sport. They might be more underreported in football but its also under more scrutiny so its hard to say who knows how the reporting rates compare.
jessriedel 12y ago
Much more than other sports? No, I don't think so. Modern concussion tracking studies take baseline cognitive measurements and then periodically re-measure throughout the year, regardless of whether the player reports an injury. Somebody ran a survey where they looked for replies that indicated "probable" concussions that were unreported, and they found > The sports with the most unreported concussions were women’s soccer (24%), men’s football (21%), field hockey (13%), and cheerleading (10%). http://www.sportsmedres.org/2014/02/unrecognized-concussion-rates-are.html http://www.sportsmedres.org/2014/02/unrecognized-concussion-... I don't believe those numbers are normalized for the number of concussions, and in any case would indicate that women soccer players were slightly less likely than football players to report a concussion conditional on having one. As for "unrecognized" concussions (i.e. the athlete gave a reply on the survey that sounded like maybe they had a concussion) they say > The sports with highest potentially unrecognized concussions were football (55%), cheerleading (50%), and cross-country (28%). which to me means you can't trust this survey at all. Whatever they're interpretting as an "unrecognized" concussion, it happens as often in cheerleading and over half as often in cross-country. On the other hand, if you want a human interest piece, you can go read skierscott's link to the NYTimes blog post about how all those football players are toughing out brain damage....
- kansface 12y ago
  Thanks for the info- perhaps they mean that 28% of probable concussions from CC are unreported? This seems reasonable.

Every time some one does a study they find they're under reported in every sport. They might be more underreported in football but its also under more scrutiny so its hard to say who knows how the reporting rates compare.

jessriedel 12y ago

Much more than other sports? No, I don't think so. Modern concussion tracking studies take baseline cognitive measurements and then periodically re-measure throughout the year, regardless of whether the player reports an injury. Somebody ran a survey where they looked for replies that indicated "probable" concussions that were unreported, and they found > The sports with the most unreported concussions were women’s soccer (24%), men’s football (21%), field hockey (13%), and cheerleading (10%). http://www.sportsmedres.org/2014/02/unrecognized-concussion-rates-are.html http://www.sportsmedres.org/2014/02/unrecognized-concussion-... I don't believe those numbers are normalized for the number of concussions, and in any case would indicate that women soccer players were slightly less likely than football players to report a concussion conditional on having one. As for "unrecognized" concussions (i.e. the athlete gave a reply on the survey that sounded like maybe they had a concussion) they say > The sports with highest potentially unrecognized concussions were football (55%), cheerleading (50%), and cross-country (28%). which to me means you can't trust this survey at all. Whatever they're interpretting as an "unrecognized" concussion, it happens as often in cheerleading and over half as often in cross-country. On the other hand, if you want a human interest piece, you can go read skierscott's link to the NYTimes blog post about how all those football players are toughing out brain damage....

kansface 12y ago
Thanks for the info- perhaps they mean that 28% of probable concussions from CC are unreported? This seems reasonable.