An Evidence Based Approach to Sports Concussion: Confronting the Availability Cascade

Excerpt

This special issue of Neuropsychology Review consists of six articles covering the topic of sport related concussion (SRC) prepared by a distinguished panel of scientists. The past 20 years have been marked by a steady increase in the public’s focus on brain injury in athletes, fueled primarily by media accounts of extraordinary outcomes, including prolonged symptoms or untimely deaths, in professional athletes sustaining concussions in football, ice hockey, and other contact sports. Over the same time period, there has also been an unprecedented level of scientific investigation on SRC. The articles contained in this issue provide contemporary evidence-based reviews of where the literature currently resides on a range of topics related to SRC, including epidemiology, acute effects, methods of assessment, and long-term outcome. …