Pediatric Issues in Sports Concussions
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Sports-related concussions.
Concussions are an inherent part of collision sports such as football and soccer. As a subset of traumatic brain injury, concussions are neurometabolic events that cause transient neurologic dysfunction. Following a concussion, some athletes require longer neurologic recovery than others. Education and intervention aimed at prevention and management can minimize the long-term sequelae of sports...
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After Zackery Lystedt’s brain injury, “he couldn’t speak for nine months,” his father said. Thirteen months later, “he could move his left arm a little; it took two years to get rid of the feeding tube and four years before he could move his right leg purposefully.” Zackery had suffered a concussion during a high school football game in 2006, but “was twice returned to play and collapsed 60 sec...
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عنوان ژورنال: CONTINUUM: Lifelong Learning in Neurology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1080-2371
DOI: 10.1212/01.con.0000458973.71142.7d