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This review highlights how age, gender, culture, language, sport type, and premorbid conditions influence sports concussion incidence, severity, and recovery in diverse athlete populations.
Highlights the influence of age, gender, culture, language, sport type, and premorbid conditions on sports concussion incidence, severity, and recovery in diverse athlete populations.
Supports considering demographics and sport type in concussion care; leaves open prospective validation before practice change.
This paper aims to familiarize readers with the contemporary scientific literature available on sports concussion as it relates to populations divergent from adult males who play football and hockey. Herein, we focus on important issues such as age, gender, culture, language, sport type, and premorbid conditions (such as learning disabilities [LD] and attention deficit/hyperactive disorder [ADHD]) that can influence concussion incidence, severity, and recovery.
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Salinas et al. (2012) conducted a review in Sports concussion. This review highlights how age, gender, culture, language, sport type, and premorbid conditions influence sports concussion incidence, severity, and recovery in diverse athlete populations.
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