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January is National Winter Sports Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Awareness Month

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January is Winter Sports Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) awareness month
January is Winter Sports Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) awareness month
January is National Winter Sports TBI Awareness Month. Knowing just how common these injuries are in winter sports can help us take steps to prevent some of these brain injuries.

General Athlete

  1. Professional Action Sport Athletes’ Experiences with and Attitudes Toward Concussion: A Phenomenological Study. Qualitative Report, 2016. Generally, athletes accepted concussion risk as part of their sport, but were largely unfamiliar with what concussion was and what long-term effects could result from a history of concussion.
  2. I won't let you down; why 20% of Men's and Women's Super League Players Underreported Suspected Concussions. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 2023. A player's attitude towards concussion is potentially an individual modifiable risk factor and should be considered within the concussion management of players.
  3. The Crash Reel. (2013, 109 min film). The dramatic story of one unforgettable athlete, Kevin Pearce; one eye - popping sport, snowboarding; and one explosive issue, Traumatic Brain Injury.
  4. Wipe Out (2008, 51 min). Narrated by Olympic gold medalist Ross Rebagliati, Wipe Out tells the story of three young men living with permanent brain damage as the result of head injuries they suffered pursuing extreme sports.

Helmet Use

  1. Helmet Use in Winter Sport Activities—Attitude and Opinion of Neurosurgeons and Non-Traumatic-Brain-Injury-Educated Persons. Acta Neurochirurgica, 2011
  2. Cohort Study on the Association Between Helmet Use and Traumatic Brain Injury in Snowboarders from a Swiss Tertiary Trauma Center. World Neurosurgery, 2015. Since the introduction of helmets in winter sports there is on-going debate on whether they decrease traumatic brain injuries (TBI).
  3. Analysis of a Severe Head Injury in World Cup Alpine Skiing. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 2015. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death in alpine skiing…knowledge on optimal helmet performance criteria in World Cup alpine skiing is currently limited owing to the lack of biomechanical data from real crash situations.

Injury Prevention

  1. Quick Tips: Avoid Traumatic Brain Injury While Playing Winter Sports. Neurology Now, 2014.
  2. Helmets for Winter Sports. Seattle Children’s Hospital patient information page in English and Spanish.
  3. How to Avoid a Common Winter Sports Injury. UW Medicine video library (2022, 1:38 min short).

Children & The Elderly

  1. Outcome of Elderly Patients Injured at Winter Resorts. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2011.
  2. Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly after a Skiing Accident: A Retrospective Cohort Study in a Level 1 Emergency Department in Switzerland. PloS one, 2022. This study aimed to evaluate the importance of traumatic brain injury (TBI), especially in the elderly, after a ski accident, and to describe its short-term repercussions.
  3. Environmental Factors and Severe Pediatric Trauma following Winter Sliding Sport Injuries. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 2020.
  4. Me & My New Brain (2015, 51 min). A remarkable programme that reveals what it's like to suffer and then try to live with the most common hidden disability to affect young adults - traumatic brain injury.
  5. Sledding While Towed behind Motorized Vehicles Associates with More Severe and Lethal injuries. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2022. Children experiencing sledding accidents while being towed by motorized vehicles sustain significantly more severe injuries and require more intensive treatments…

Women Athletes

  1. Woman Athlete Diagnosed with CTE Brain Disease in 'Landmark' Find. AFP International Text Wire in English, 2023.
  2. These Young Female Athletes Died by Suicide. They All had Head Injuries in Common. CNN Wire, 2023.
  3. “Invisible Sportswomen”: The Sex Data Gap in Sport and Exercise Science Research. Women in Sport & Physical Activity Journal, 2021. This study aimed to conduct an updated exploration of the ratio of male and female participants in sport and exercise science research.
  4. Head Injuries Are Not Just Major Concern in Football. Today transcript, 2019. Typically, researchers looked at former football players, but now leader in the field is turning towards women who play soccer. Why? Because frequent headers are so key to the sport.
  5. Risk and Susceptibility to Repetitive Subconcussive Head Injury: Evidence for Sex as a Risk Factor and a New Model for Further Investigation. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2019. One domain that has been postulated to confer risk is biological sex, as women report more concussions than men, and take longer for post concussive symptoms to resolve.
Image Credit: Military Health System. (2023). National Winter Sports Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month. Retrieved December 29, 2023.

Transgender Awareness Week 2023

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Trans Awareness Week Nov 13-19
Trans Awareness Week Nov 13-19
This week is Transgender Awareness Week 2023 and the Health Sciences Library has some campus resources for fellow staff and students.   Preferred Names FAQ - UW Office of the University Registrar How-to guides for updating your preferred name and other information within the UW system.   Transgender resources for UW employees - UW Human Resources Curated guides and policies on a range of topics, including updating your legal name, gender affirming health insurance benefits, workplace transitioning plans, and resources for managers and colleagues.   Transgender & Gender Non-Binary Health Program - UW Medicine  UW and Washington State resources for LGBTQ+ services and providers.   Gender-affirming care - Husky Health & Well-being List of available campus resource providing gender-affirming medical and mental health care, including through Hall Health and the UW Counseling Center.   The Q Center The Q Center is a resource, advocacy, and mentoring center that connects queer students at UW to programs, services, media, and learning and training resources. The Q Center also hosts Marsha P. Johnson Memorial Library, a community library with close to 1500 books, zines, and films.   Transgender Awareness Week - GLAAD Links to news articles, blogs, and other resources on Transgender Awareness Week from this year and years past. GLAAD also provides curated resources in its GLAAD Transgender Media Program.     Image Credit: Transgender Awareness Week 2023. (2023). GLAAD. Retrieved November 16, 2023 from https://glaad.org/transweek.

New For All UW Researchers: Covidence, Evidence Synthesis Tool

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The UW Health Sciences Library has implemented a new institutional license for Covidence, a leading online platform for evidence synthesis projects, including systematic and scoping reviews, meta-analyses, and more.
The UW Health Sciences Library has implemented a new institutional license for Covidence, a leading online platform for evidence synthesis projects, including systematic and scoping reviews, meta-analyses, and more.

The UW Health Sciences Library has implemented a new institutional license for Covidence, a leading online platform for evidence synthesis projects, including systematic and scoping reviews, meta-analyses, and more.

This new license is available to all UW faculty, staff, and students and is made possible in partnership with the UW Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, and Social Work.

Covidence is used by the world’s leading institutions to bring together research from around the globe and “turn it into trustworthy summaries of scientific knowledge.”

“We are thrilled to offer this high-demand research synthesis tool to all UW users,” says Tania Bardyn, Associate Dean for Health Sciences and Director, Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM), Region 5. “Covidence will reduce the need for multiple tools and make it easier for researchers to screen, review, assess, extract and export data for evidence synthesis projects.”

UW Health Sciences Library has developed a comprehensive Covidence Guide to help users get started including instructions for how to transition an existing account, access to monthly training sessions and more. The next available training session will be held next Monday, March 27.

For further assistance, please feel free to contact your subject librarian or chat with a librarian 24/7.

UW Libraries Joins Dryad

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UW Libraries is pleased to announce its official membership with the generalist data repository Dryad, an open data publishing platform and development community. The Dryad Data Platform is a curated resource that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of data types and now counts over 75 institutions and publishers in its membership.  See the Dryad research guide for more information on how UW researchers can get started with the service.

Dryad is the first open data publishing platform available to UW users. It will serve as a companion to UW Libraries ResearchWorks, which is best for texts and some small data sets. As a generalist repository, Dryad accepts data regardless of data type, format, content, or disciplinary focus.

The UW Libraries implementation of Dryad aligns with the increasing advocacy of public research universities to provide for the open sharing of research data and outputs. This announcement also comes on the heels of the National Institutes of Health’s new data management and sharing policy that went into effect January 23rd.  Dryad is one of the Generalist Repositories recommended by the National Institutes of Health.

Because UW Libraries is covering the full cost membership, UW users will not have to pay a fee to deposit data in Dryad.

For more information visit Dryad research guide or contact Jenny Muilenburg, Research Data Services Librarian.

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