TACKLING CONCUSSIONS IN SPORTS
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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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عنوان ژورنال: Neurosurgery
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0148-396X,1524-4040
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000083559.68424.3f