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Soldiers Suffering After Concussion

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It should not be surprising that there are lingering effects from a battle concussion, what may be surprising is the sheer amount of service men and women that may be affected daily by just headaches.  Recent data published in Headache by Army researchers shows that nearly 20% of soldiers that sustained a concussive episode had been diagnosed with “chronic daily headache”;

Of those, a quarter had the headaches every day. More soldiers with chronic headaches had symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than those who did not suffer frequent headaches. […]

The chronic headache group was also more likely to score higher Continue reading →

Ankle Sprain = Lower Neurocognitive Scores?

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According to some recent research out of Toronto, to be published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, led by Michael Hutchison this is the case.  Any athlete suffering an injury showed declines in neurocognitive testing, significantly compared to a control group.

In this study both concussed athletes and other injured athletes were compared to a control group of uninjured athletes;

For the current study, researchers at the University of Toronto gave the 20-minute computer test to 72 student-athletes, including football, hockey, and lacrosse players. Eighteen of those athletes had suffered a concussion in the past three days, and another 18 had been taken out recently by a muscle or tendon injury.

The other 36, used for comparison, were uninjured.

We would all suspect that the concussion group would decline Continue reading →