Diagnosis and management of sports-related concussion: A 15-year-old athlete with a concussion

JAMA

Volumn 306, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-86

  Zafonte, Ross ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IBUPROFEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONCUSSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FALLING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALAISE; NECK PAIN; PAIN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SKIING; SPORT INJURY; STABBING HEADACHE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; ANAMNESIS; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSIS; HEAD INJURY; INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADOLESCENT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; IBUPROFEN; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; NECK PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECURRENCE; SKIING; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 79960070962     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.819     Document Type: Article

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