Two Weeks After Sports-Related Concussions, Most Patients Have Not Recovered, Reports Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Jun 5, 2020

Less than half of patients with sports-related mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) achieve clinical recovery within two weeks after injury, reports a study in Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine.   "This study challenges current perceptions that most people with a sports-related mTBI recover within 10 to 14 days," write Stephen Kara, MBChB, of Axis Sports Medicine, Auckland, New Zealand. The findings also question the belief that children recover more slowly after sports-related concussion, a
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