The million dollar question: When should an athlete retire after concussion?

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 365-369

  Concannon, Leah G ^a   Kaufman, Marla S ^a   Herring, Stanley A ^a,b,c  

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

^b SEATTLE SEAHAWKS   (United States)

^c Seattle Children's   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; APPARENT LIFE THREATENING EVENT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BONE BURR; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CRANIOTOMY; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOOTBALL; HEADACHE; HUMAN; RETIREMENT; SYMPTOM; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME; PSYCHOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPORT INJURY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ATHLETES; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CONVALESCENCE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECURRENCE; RETIREMENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 84928111591     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0000000000000098     Document Type: Article

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