Epidemiology of sports-related concussion in seven US high school and collegiate sports

Injury Epidemiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Marshall, Stephen W ^a,b,c   Guskiewicz, Kevin M ^b,c   Shankar, Viswanathan ^d   McCrea, Michael ^e,f   Cantu, Robert C ^g  

^a IL   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Waukesha Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^f MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^g EMERSON HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Football; Head injury; Lacrosse; Soccer; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BALANCE DISORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLLEGE; CONCUSSION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FOOTBALL; HEADACHE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; ICE HOCKEY; INCIDENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SOCCER; SPORT INJURY; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84977938775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21971714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40621-015-0045-4     Document Type: Article

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