Sports concussion: Management and predictors of outcome

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-15

  Reddy, Cara Camiolo ^a   Collins, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENERGY RESOURCE; EXERCISE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIGRAINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPORT INJURY; SPORTS MEDICINE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN CONCUSSION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPORTS; SPORTS MEDICINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67651227402     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e31819539ca     Document Type: Review

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