Comparison of Pre-injury and Clinical Characteristics Between Adolescents With Sport-Related Concussion and Non-Sport-Related Concussion Presenting to a Specialty Concussion Clinic
The most salient factors associated with non-SRC patients presenting to a specialty concussion clinic were a headache/migraine history, a longer time to clinic, and greater initial visit symptoms. These findings suggest that the factors that lead patients with SRC and Non-SRC to present to a specialty clinic differ, and that studies that are interested in differences in clinical characteristics based on mechanism of injury will need to address substantial referral differences between these two populations that would confound such findings.
Authors
- Bindal Makwana Mehmel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9316-8827)
- Alicia M. Trbovich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4539-7120)
- Michael W. Collins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9937-1447)
- Shan Patel
- Nathan Kegel
- Faith Kehinde
- Anthony P. Kontos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3749-4310)
- Aaron J. Zynda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0663-7320)
- Casey L. Burley
Institutions
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- UPMC Health System (US)
- Sports Concussion Institute (US)
- Moss Rehabilitation Hospital (US)
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
- Published
- 2025-11-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/phm.0000000000002898
- Primary Topic
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00