Examining Acute Symptoms After Sport-Related Concussion in Collegiate Athletes With Preinjury Migraines.

Objective: To examine whether a personal history of migraines is associated with worse acute symptom burden after sport-related concussion (SRC).

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III collegiate programs.

Recovery After Sport-Related Concussion in Collegiate Athletes With Self-Reported Pre-Injury Migraines.

Pre-injury migraines might be a risk factor for prolonged recovery after sport-related concussion (SRC). We sought to examine whether a pre-injury history of migraines is associated with worse recovery following SRC in collegiate athletes. Data were collected through a prospective concussion surveillance system in 11 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III college athletic programs between September 2014 and March 2020.

Sleep Insufficiency and Baseline Preseason Concussion-Like Symptom Reporting in Youth Athletes.

Objective: To examine the association between insufficient sleep and baseline symptom reporting in healthy student athletes.

Design: Cross-sectional cohort study.

Setting: Preseason testing for student athletes.

Preseason Baseline Neurocognitive Performances and Symptom Reporting on Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing: A Comparison of Adolescent Student-Athletes Tested in Spanish and English.

Context: Student-athletes are commonly administered the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT) battery at preseason baseline and postconcussion. The ImPACT is available in many languages, but few researchers have examined differences in cognitive performances and symptom ratings based on the language of administration.

Objective: To examine differences in ImPACT neurocognitive composites and symptom reporting at preseason baseline testing between student-athletes who completed ImPACT in Spanish versus English.

Factors Associated With Self-Reported Concussion History in Middle School Athletes.

Objective: Identifying personal characteristics associated with sustaining a concussion is of great interest, yet only a few have examined this in children. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between sex, neurodevelopmental disorders, health history, and lifetime history of self-reported concussion in 12- and 13-year-old athletes.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Mimics the Post-concussion Syndrome in Adolescents.

The objective of this study was to evaluate concussion-like symptom reporting among uninjured adolescents with Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), stratified by several cooccurring conditions, and to examine the base rate and predictors of uninjured adolescents with ADHD meeting diagnostic criteria for the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) post-concussional syndrome (PCS). Participants in this cross-sectional, observational study, were drawn from a cohort of 48,834 adolescent student athletes from Maine (ages 13-18) with no concussion in the past 6 months who completed a preseason, baseline testing program between 2009 and 2015. The final sample included 3,031 students with ADHD, 2,146 (70.

Acute Effects of Concussion in Youth With Pre-existing Migraines.

Objective: To examine associations between pre-existing migraines and postconcussion symptoms and cognitive performance acutely (within 72 hours) after a suspected concussion.

Design: Nested case-control study.

Setting: High schools in Maine, USA.

Preinjury Migraine History as a Risk Factor for Prolonged Return to School and Sports following Concussion.

Having a preexisting migraine disorder might be a risk factor for a prolonged recovery following a sport-related concussion. We examined whether having a migraine history was associated with a prolonged return to academics and athletics following a concussion. High school and collegiate athletes (n = 1265; 42% female) who sustained a sport-related concussion were monitored by athletic trainers using a web-based surveillance system that collects information about concussion recovery.

Factor Structure of ImPACT® in Adolescent Student Athletes.

Objective: ImPACT (Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing) is a computerized neuropsychological screening battery, which is widely used to measure the acute effects of sport-related concussion and to monitor recovery from injury. This study examined the factor structure of ImPACT in several samples of high school student athletes. We hypothesized that a 2-factor structure would be present in all samples.

High School Athletes With ADHD and Learning Difficulties Have a Greater Lifetime Concussion History.

Examine lifetime history of concussions in adolescents who have developmental problems in comparison with those with no developmental problems. Thirty-two thousand four hundred eighty-seven adolescent athletes completed baseline/pre-season evaluations. Based on self-reported histories, athletes were divided into four groups: ADHD only, ADHD and learning difficulties (LD), LD only, and controls.

Factors Associated With Concussion-like Symptom Reporting in High School Athletes.

Importance: Every state in the United States has passed legislation for sport-related concussion, making this health issue important for physicians and other health care professionals. Safely returning athletes to sport after concussion relies on accurately determining when their symptoms resolve.

Objective: To evaluate baseline concussion-like symptom reporting in uninjured adolescent student athletes.