Kestävä ura kontaktiurheilun huipulla (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.