Is rest the best intervention for concussion? Lessons learned from the whiplash model

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 201-204

  Craton, Neil ^a,b   Leslie, Oliver ^a,b  

^a Legacy Sport Medicine   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AWARENESS; CATASTROPHIZING; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCUSSION; DEPRESSION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICALIZATION; MILITARY RESEARCH; NOTE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REST; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WHIPLASH INJURY; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CONVALESCENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

BRAIN CONCUSSION; HUMANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REST; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 84925883836     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0000000000000072     Document Type: Note

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