Publications by authors named "K Guskiewicz"
Context: Understanding former professional football players engagement with health promoting behaviors (physical exercise, high quality diet, and good sleep hygiene) will be helpful for developing lifestyle interventions to improve their feelings of well-being, a relatively understudied facet of health among this population.
Objective: Examine associations among health-promoting behaviors and subjective outcomes related to well-being among former National Football League (NFL) players.
Design: Cross-sectional.
Article Synopsis
- This study aims to create a prognostic model to predict recovery times for concussion patients, benefiting early treatment interventions worldwide.
- The research involved analyzing diffusion-weighted MRI data from collegiate athletes who suffered concussions, categorizing recoveries into early and late groups based on their return-to-play timelines.
- Advanced data processing techniques were used to assess microstructural properties of brain tracts, with statistical analyses employed to evaluate their correlation with recovery outcomes, ultimately using logistic regression for classification.
Identification of genetic alleles associated with both Alzheimer's disease (AD) and concussion severity/recovery could help explain the association between concussion and elevated dementia risk. However, there has been little investigation into whether AD risk genes associate with concussion severity/recovery, and the limited findings are mixed. We used AD polygenic risk scores (PRS) and genotypes to investigate any such associations in the NCAA-DoD Grand Alliance CARE Consortium (CARE) dataset.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevious studies on pain experiences in retired contract sport athletes have been cross-sectional, leaving gaps in our understanding of the evolution of pain interference (PI) and factors that influence trajectories decades after sport discontinuation. This study investigated the longitudinal course of PI in former male National Football League (NFL) players over a 19-year period following sport discontinuation and examined factors influencing overall levels and trajectories of PI. Former NFL players completed health surveys in 2001, 2010, and 2019, with PI ratings measured using the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (2001 and 2010) and the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (2019).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Authors of few studies have used randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to quantify clinical intervention safety of rehabilitation after sport-related concussion across sport levels.
Objective: Describe symptom exacerbation and adverse events (AEs) associated with two concussion rehabilitation interventions.
Design: Cluster RCT (NCT02988596).