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AAP Grand Rounds 13:28-29 (2005)
© 2005 American Academy of Pediatrics

SPORTS MEDICINE

Concussion Risk in High School Athletes

Source: Schulz MR, Marshall SW, Mueller FO, et al. Incidence and risk factors for concussion in high school athletes, North Carolina, 1996–1999. Am J Epidemiology. 2004;160:937–944.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

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Participants in contact or collision sports such as football, wrestling, and soccer risk trauma that could result in a mild brain injury (concussion). Using data collected as part of the North Carolina High School Athletic Injury Study (NCHSAIS), a prospective cohort study was performed of injury rates among 15,802 high school student-athletes followed from 1996–1999. Participants in 12 sports including football, cheerleading, wrestling, volleyball, baseball, softball, boys’ and girls’ basketball, boys’ and girls’ soccer, and boys’ and girls’ track were monitored, with selected varsity teams followed for 3 years. Gender breakdown in each sport was not given unless specified. A total of 137 males and 31 females experienced concussions. Concussions were defined as a "clinical syndrome characterized by immediate and transient post-traumatic impairment of neural functions, such as alteration of consciousness, disturbance of vision, equilibrium, etc., due to brain stem involvement."1 Concussions were defined based . . . [Full Text of this Article]

David Bernhardt, MD, FAAP
Pediatrics and Sports Medicine, University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital and University of Wisconsin Sports Medicine, Madison, WI