Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have found that college athletes had worse post-injury outcomes related to concussions they experienced outside sports than those they experienced while playing sports. Additionally, female athletes who sustained their injuries outside sports had more severe symptoms and more days in sports lost to injury, compared to male athletes. These findings suggest the need for improved concussion recognition, reporting, and monitoring outside of sports.
Concussions have the potential to impact the daily function and quality of life of those who sustain them. Prompt recognition of symptoms and early access to care can help minimize those effects. Most concussion research has primarily focused on injuries that occur while playing sports, but those studies often exclude concussions that can happen outside sports, usually the result of falls or car crashes.
"Patients who experience a concussion outside of sports may lack the resources that athletes who sustain their injury on the field have for concussion care, like immediate access tosuch as athletic trainers," said study first author Patricia Roby, Ph.D., an injury scientist who conducted this research while she was a postdoctoral fellow at CHOP.
To help address this gap in knowledge, researchers analyzed data from the National Collegiate Athletic Association-Department of Defense Concussion Assessment, Research, and Education Consortium. In total, 3,500were included in the study, including 555 who experienced a non-sports-related concussion. More than 40% of athletes included were female so that potential differences in recovery between males and females could be explored.
The study found that athletes who experienced non-sports-related concussions were less likely to report their injuries immediately, potentially due to lack of recognition of symptoms outside of the sport setting or hesitation to report the injury caused by unusual or careless mechanisms.
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