Efficacy of coach education in reducing injuries and head impact exposure in American youth football

5129.0
Prevention and Treatment of Sport-Related Injuries among Young Athletes (organized jointly with the Injury section)

Wednesday, November 4, 2015: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Oral

Organizer:

Santosh K. Verma, ScD, MPH, MBBS

Moderator:

Judith Silverstein Gray, BS, MAOM

10:30am

Epidemiological Assessment of Sport-Related Middle School Injuries in an Urban County of Kentucky
Shayla Veasley, BS, ATC, Alex F. Howard, DrPH, ATC, Carl G. Mattacola, PhD, ATC and Jennifer Howard, PhD, ATC

10:45am

Sports Injuries Among High School Athletes in West Central Florida for Academic Year 2014-2015
Karen Liller, PhD, Barbara Morris, DHSc and Siew Wong, MA

11:00am

Epidemiology of high school cheerleading injuries relative to other sports, 2009/10-2013/14
Dustin W. Currie, MPH and R. Dawn Comstock, PhD

11:15am

Nurse Practitioner Assessment and Diagnosis of Adolescent Sports-Related Concussions
Janessa Graves, PhD, MPH and Tracy Klein, PhD, FNP, ARNP, FAANP, FAAN

11:30am

Efficacy of coach education in reducing injuries and head impact exposure in American youth football
Thomas Dompier, PhD, ATC, Zachary Kerr, PhD, MPH, Aristarque Djoko, MS and Dustin Folger, BS

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services, Maternal and Child Health, Chiropractic Health Care

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)