Balance and cognitive performance during a dual-task: Preliminary implications for use in concussion assessment

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 190-194

  Teel, Elizabeth F ^a   Register Mihalik, Johna K ^a,b   Troy Blackburn, J ^a   Guskiewicz, Kevin M ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b WAKEMED HEALTH AND HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Concussion; Dual task; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COGNITION; CONCUSSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SENSORY ORGANIZATION TEST; STROOP TEST; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

BRAIN CONCUSSION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876741510     PISSN: 14402440     EISSN: 18781861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsams.2012.09.007     Document Type: Article

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