Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu) & Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Division of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Brain Inj. 2020;34(2):236-244. doi: 10.1080/02699052.2019.1683899. Epub 2019 Oct 29.
: Few studies have tracked neurologic function in youth football players longitudinally. This study aimed to determine whether changes in tests of auditory, vestibular, and/or visual functions are evident after participation in one or two seasons of youth tackle football.: Prospective cohort study.: Before their 2017 and/or 2018 seasons, male tackle football players (ages 7-14 yrs) completed three tests that tend to exhibit acute disruptions following a concussion: (1) the FFR (frequency-following response), aphysiologic test of auditory function, (2) the BESS (Balance Error Scoring System), a test of vestibular function, and (3) the King-Devick, a test of oculomotor function. We planned to repeat these on all subjects at the end of each season.: Performance on neurosensory tests was stable, with no changes observed in FFR or King-Devick and a slight improvement observed in BESS performance across each season. Performance was also stable over two years for the subjects who participated both years. Across-season test-retest reliability correlations were high.: In the absence of concussion, young athletes' performance on the FFR, King-Devick, and BESS is stable across one or two seasons of youth tackle football.
很少有研究对青年足球运动员的神经功能进行纵向跟踪。本研究旨在确定在参加一个或两个青年触身式橄榄球赛季后，听觉、前庭和/或视觉功能测试是否会发生变化。前瞻性队列研究。在 2017 年和/或 2018 年赛季之前，男性触身式橄榄球运动员（7-14 岁）完成了三项测试，这些测试通常在脑震荡后会出现急性紊乱：（1）FFR（频率跟随反应），听觉功能的生理测试，（2）BESS（平衡错误评分系统），前庭功能测试，（3）King-Devick，眼动功能测试。我们计划在每个赛季结束时对所有受试者重复进行这些测试。神经感觉测试的表现稳定，FFR 或 King-Devick 没有观察到变化，BESS 测试在每个赛季都略有改善。对于参加了两个赛季的受试者，两年内的表现也很稳定。跨赛季的测试-重测相关性很高。在没有脑震荡的情况下，年轻运动员在 FFR、King-Devick 和 BESS 上的表现在一个或两个青年触身式橄榄球赛季中是稳定的。
