Managing successive minor head injuries: Which tests guide return to play?

Physician and Sportsmedicine

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1996, Pages

  Putukian, Margot ^a,c,d   Echemendia, Ruben J ^b  

^a Rehab ^*  (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c American College of Sports Medicine   (United States)

^d Hershey Med Ctr for Sports Med   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASKETBALL; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLLEGE STUDENT; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SPORT INJURY;

EID: 10544222016     PISSN: 00913847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00913847.1996.11948044     Document Type: Article

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