Traumatic brain injury in sports a focus of annual meeting
May 2, 2014…ofessional athletes. A review of the hockey literature found that the most common CNS injuries were concussion (0.2-6.6 per 1000 player-hours), and spinal cord injuries (5.0 per 1000 player-hours) (Toy et al. AAN 2014; abstract P5.343). An analysis of blood biomarkers in 28 Swedish Hockey League players reported that levels of total-tau (T-tau, a marker of axonal injury) and S100 calcium binding B (S-100B, a marker of astroglial injury) were eleva…