Concussion and Football: a Review and Editorial

Kalil G. Abdullah; M. Sean Grady; Joshua M. Levine

doi:10.1007/s11910-015-0535-3

Concussion and Football: a Review and Editorial

Kalil G. Abdullah, M. Sean Grady, Joshua M. Levine

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Abstract

The issue of concussion in football is of substantial interest to players, coaches, fans, and physicians. In this article, we review specific cultural hindrances to diagnosis and treatment of concussion in football. We review current trends in management and identify areas for improvement. We also discuss the obligations that physicians, particularly neurosurgeons and neurologists, have toward brain-injured football players and the larger societal role they may play in helping to minimize football-associated brain injury.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Current neurology and neuroscience reports
Volume	15
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11910-015-0535-3
State	Published - Apr 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Athletics
Concussion
Football
Professional sports
Traumatic brain injury

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Neuroscience
Clinical Neurology

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