Update on sports concussion.

Curr Rev Musculoskelet Med

Medstar Union Memorial Sports Medicine, 1407 York Road, Suite 100A, Lutherville, MD, 21093, USA,

Published: December 2014

Over the past 20 years, sports concussion has become one of the most researched topics in sports medicine. Significant resources have been allocated to the study of this issue, with a dramatic increase in information concerning most aspects of this common sports injury. In light of this considerable increase in research, this review is offered to provide clinicians involved in the care of athletes a summary of key features of the evaluation and management of sports concussion with attention to recent contributions to the literature.

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