Sustainable career in elite contact sports (SUCCESS)
Sustainable careers in elite contact sports (SUCCESS) promotes a safe and long sports career, cognitive health, and wellbeing of athletes. Physical activity has well documented positive effects on health and well-being. However, contact sports involve actions that pose risk to brain health, such as collisions in ice hockey and headers in football. SUCCESS studies the consequences of head impacts at different career stages from youth to elite stages into the post-career phase.
The project is carried out by researchers in the universities of Jyväskylä and Helsinki in collaboration with sports organizations.
The project is carried out by researchers in the universities of Jyväskylä and Helsinki in collaboration with sports organizations.
Table of contents
Project duration
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Core fields of research
Physical activity, health and wellbeing
Research areas
JYU.Well
Brain changes across the life-span
Physical activity through life span
Faculty
Faculty of Education and Psychology
Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences
