Head injury and concussion in cricket: Incidence, current guidance, and implications of sports concussion literature

Whitehouse, Daniel; Kelleher-Unger, Isaac; Newcombe, Virginia

doi:10.1002/tsm2.222

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“…Descriptions of how various neurological symptomology may present following head impact have been attempted but agreed definitions have not been made thus far [12]. Furthermore, previous work within cricketing populations has suggested atypical presentation following impact [13]. To further complicate, symptoms and signs from brain injury can evolve and present sub-acute, which require evaluation at, as yet unspecified time periods.…”

Section: Elite Level Cricketmentioning

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Getting “a head” of the game – Cricket and brain injury

McCabe

Menon

2023

Sports Psychiatry

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Getting “a head” of the game – Cricket and brain injury

McCabe

Menon

2023

Sports Psychiatry

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“…CogSport performance and symptoms relative to intraindividual baselines are reported in table 1. The median total number of symptoms reported on CogSport on the day of head injury was 7 out of 24 (IQR 5-11) and symptom severity was 10 out of a possible 120 (IQR [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19].…”

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“…[6][7][8] Reproducible tests such as these are also useful in monitoring an athlete's neurocognitive recovery, which can occur on a very individualised timeline. 9 There are a number of different computerised neurocognitive tests used to assess sport-related concussion. A study in 2012 found the Computerised Cognitive What are the new findings ► Neurocognitive testing, such as CogSport, is a useful clinical adjunct tool to assist the diagnosis of concussion following head impact in elite cricket players.…”

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Evaluation of CogSport for acute concussion diagnosis in cricket

James

Saw

et al. 2021

BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med

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ObjectiveThe diagnosis of sport-related concussion is a challenge for practitioners given the variable presentation and lack of a universal clinical indicator. The aim of this study was to describe the CogSport findings associated with concussion in elite Australian cricket players, and to evaluate the diagnostic ability of CogSport for this cohort.MethodsA retrospective study design was used to evaluate CogSport performance of 45 concussed (male n=27, mean age 24.5±4.5 years; female n=18, 23.5±3.5 years) compared with 45 matched non-concussed (male n=27, mean age 27.3±4.5 years; female n=18, 24.1±4.5 years) elite Australian cricket players who sustained a head impact during cricket specific activity between July 2015 and December 2019.ResultsMedian number of reported symptoms on the day of injury for concussed players was 7 out of 24, with a median symptom severity of 10 out of 120. CogSport performance deteriorated significantly in concussed cricket players’ Detection speed (p<0.001), Identification speed (p<0.001), One Back speed (p=0.001) and One Back accuracy (p=0.022) components. These components, when considered independently and together, had good diagnostic utility.ConclusionThis study demonstrated good clinical utility of CogSport for identifying concussed cricket players, particularly symptoms and Detection, Identification and One Back components. Therefore, CogSport may be considered a useful tool to assist concussion diagnosis in this cohort, and the clinician may place greater weight on the components associated with concussion diagnosis.

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“…As an example, cricketers have been recently reported to have increased head-related injury rates and delayed recovery. 7 However, concussion risk has been found to be lower in baseball/softball, lacrosse, and field-hockey compared to other contact sports. 3 An exception to this was ice-hockey where 8 concussion was one of the most reported injuries in male players.…”

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Sex-based differences in concussion incidence and its underlying injury mechanism in team bat/stick sports: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Sundaram

Ramachandran²,

Singh

et al. 2022

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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This study aimed to synthesize and quantify the sex-based differences in concussion incidences rate and associated mechanism of injuries in team bat/stick sports. Following a systematic search across five electronic databases, 46 studies were included in the review; 24 were included in the incidence rate (IR) meta-analysis and 13 of the 24 studies met the eligibility criteria for the meta-analysis involving injury mechanism. DerSimonian and Laird random effects models were used for pooling the Rate Ratio (RR) data. Ice-hockey had the highest overall risk of concussion, followed by lacrosse and baseball/softball. Female players had higher concussion IRs compared to males (RR 0.74 [95% CI 0.58–0.95], p = .02) across all sports included in this study. Sex-based differences in concussion IRs for ice-hockey and lacrosse were not statistically significant. Male athletes were more statistically likely to sustain concussion because of player-contact in ice-hockey (RR 1.55 [95% CI 1.29–1.86], p < .001) and lacrosse (RR 3.20 [95% CI 1.54–6.64], p = .002). Conversely, female athletes showed a higher risk of concussion due to equipment contact in lacrosse (RR 0.29 [95% CI 0.20–0.43], p < .001). Injury mechanism varies between male and female athletes across these bat/stick sports. Female athletes have a higher risk of getting concussed due to the impact of players with equipment (ball/puck) and surface contact for lacrosse and ice-hockey. Findings from this study can help coaches, sports administrators, and health care providers with further data on the current information regarding concussion-related factors in these respective sports.

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Head injury and concussion in cricket: Incidence, current guidance, and implications of sports concussion literature

Abstract: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Cited by 6 publications

References 76 publications

Getting “a head” of the game – Cricket and brain injury

Getting “a head” of the game – Cricket and brain injury

Evaluation of CogSport for acute concussion diagnosis in cricket

Sex-based differences in concussion incidence and its underlying injury mechanism in team bat/stick sports: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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