In People with Subacute Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, earlier Physical Therapy Improved Symptoms at a Faster Rate than Later Physical Therapy: Randomized Controlled Trial.

Importance: There is unclear evidence on when to initiate physical therapy after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in non-athlete, adult population.

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate physical therapy timing after mTBI through changes in patient-reported and clinically-assessed tools and objective and mechanism measurements of sensorimotor balance control.

Design: This study was an investigator-blinded randomized control trial (NCT03479541).

Behavioral risk models explain locomotor and balance changes when walking at virtual heights.

Walking in daily life requires humans to adapt to environments that can influence one's fear of falling and anxiety about a potential fall. In such environments, individuals may adopt compensatory locomotor and balance changes to maintain a constant expected risk function equal to the product of the probability of some event (e.g.

Utility of the Vestibular/Ocular Motor Screening in Military Medicine: A Systematic Review.

Introduction: The Vestibular/Ocular Motor Screening (VOMS) was created as a brief clinical screening tool for identifying vestibular and ocular motor symptoms and impairments post-concussion. It was found to have predictive validity in correctly identifying concussed athletes from healthy controls. In 2018, the Military Acute Concussion Evaluation 2 (MACE2) replaced the original Military Acute Concussion Evaluation (MACE); the most prominent change between the MACE and MACE2 was the addition of the VOMS.

Integration of auditory and visual cues in spatial navigation under normal and impaired viewing conditions.

Auditory landmarks can contribute to spatial updating during navigation with vision. Whereas large inter-individual differences have been identified in how navigators combine auditory and visual landmarks, it is still unclear under what circumstances audition is used. Further, whether or not individuals optimally combine auditory cues with visual cues to decrease the amount of perceptual uncertainty, or variability, has not been well-documented.

Confidence to Return to Play After Concussion.

Context: The sequelae of concussion may have psychological consequences that affect an athlete's ability to return to play (RTP). However, confidence of RTP readiness is rarely monitored after a concussion.

Design: This study examined the acute and longitudinal implications of concussion on an athlete's confidence to RTP, the relationship between self-reported symptoms and athlete confidence to RTP, and interactions between concussion symptoms, sex, sport type (contact vs noncontact), and confidence to RTP.