Athletes with a concussion history in the last two years have impairments in dynamic balance performance
| dc.contributor | funder:Science Foundation Ireland | |
| dc.contributor | funder:Insight Research Centre | |
| dc.creator | Johnston, William | |
| dc.creator | Heiderscheit, Bryan | |
| dc.creator | Sanfilippo, Jennifer | |
| dc.creator | Brooks, M. Alison | |
| dc.creator | Caulfield, Brian | |
| dc.date | 2020-08 | |
| dc.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10197/11949 | |
| dc.description | The purpose of this study was to determine if National Collegiate Athletics Association Division 1 American Football and Ice Hockey athletes with a history of concussion have impaired dynamic balance control when compared to healthy control athletes. This cross‐sectional observational study recruited 146 athletes; 90 control athletes and 56 athletes with a history of concussion. Athletes were tested during a pre‐season evaluation using the inertial‐sensor instrumented Y Balance Test. Independent variables were normalized reach distance, gyroscope magnitude sample entropy, and jerk magnitude root mean square. Kruskal‐Wallis H test and Dunn‐Bonferroni analysis demonstrated that individuals with a concussion history within the last 2 years have statistically significantly lower jerk magnitude root mean square in the posteromedial (Z = 23.22, P = .015) and posterolateral (Z = 24.64, P = .010) reach directions, when compared to the control group. There was no significant difference between those who sustained a concussion longer than two years ago and the control group for the posteromedial (Z = −1.25; P = .889) and posterolateral (Z = 6.44; P = .469) directions. These findings show that athletes with a concussion history within the last two years possess dynamic balance deficits, when compared to healthy control athletes. Conversely, athletes whose injury occurred greater than 2 years ago possessed comparable performance to the healthy controls. This suggests that sensorimotor control deficits may persist beyond clinical recovery, for up to 2 years. Therefore, clinicians should integrate balance training interventions into the return‐to‐play process to accelerate sensorimotor recovery and mitigate the risk of future injury. | |
| dc.description | non-peer-reviewed | |
| dc.description | Other | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Wiley | |
| dc.relation | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sms.13691 | |
| dc.subject | Personal sensing | |
| dc.subject | Mild traumatic brain injury | |
| dc.subject | PHYSIOTHERAPY | |
| dc.subject | REHABILITATION | |
| dc.subject | Digital health | |
| dc.subject | Wearable sensor | |
| dc.subject | Balance | |
| dc.subject | Postural | |
| dc.title | Athletes with a concussion history in the last two years have impairments in dynamic balance performance | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2024-05-01T16:49:20Z |
