The Committee on Competition Guarantee and Medical Sports aspects at its meeting in Indianapolis last week, discussed the next stages after the NCAA summit on performance technologies in college athletics which was organized from May 1 to 2 in Sport Science Institute.
The CSMAS noted that discussions of the event will shed a consensus construction process which can lead to recommendations for CSMAS to create membership considerations not linked to responsible use of performance technologies in college athletics.
At the top, participants discussed subjects related to responsible use of performance technologies, in particular:
- Nomenclature (portable clothing compared to performance technology).
- Impacts on student-athletes, including mental health.
- Trends of contemporary use.
- Considerations of intention, transparency and intimacy.
- Planning, implementation and evaluation of performance technologies, including the participation of sports medical staff.
- Performance technologies in decision -making and / or medical decision -making.
- The evolution of the landscape of science and sport technology.
CSMAS will continue to discuss performance technologies, including examining consensus membership considerations at its next meeting.
Modernization of the injury monitoring program
CSMAS supported the modernization of the NCAA injury monitoring program through methodological updates, the expansion of operational capacities and the introduction of sub-studies.
This modernization would bring the program to alignment with best practices in the methodology for analyzing the surveillance data surveillance on a global scale.
These updates are planned will be:
- Improve precision in the projection and calculation of injury rates. Population estimates play a crucial role in helping to identify the burden of injuries at the level of the population based on reported data.
- Improve usefulness. An improved methodology for incidence calculations would produce more significant and interpretable injury measures while generating usable information, even in data related to data. This update would also offer the injury monitoring program analyzes the possibility of answering more specific questions.
Another aspect of the modernization project would be the ability to introduce sub-studies to meet the identified needs, the interest of membership and / or gaps in the research literature. CSMAS and membership could receive exploitable evidence and information on the main health, safety and performance-athlete subjects.
Since 1982, sports coaches of member schools have collaborated with NCAA to make the injury monitoring program the largest collegial database program for sports injuries. To learn more about participation in your campus, visit the Page of the NCAA.ORG NCAA.ORG injury monitoring program.