Kate McDonald, Kristy Arbogast, and colleagues demonstrate elevated anxiety and depressive symptoms in adolescents with acute concussion, compared to nonconcussed peers, suggesting that depression screening should be incorporated into adolescent concussion care. Read...
Kristy Arbogast and colleagues found that adolescents with and without a concussion history present with similar visio-vestibular function. Further, early age of first concussion is not evident in visio-vestibular function in children, suggesting potential cumulative...
Bernadette D’Alonzo led a study with Abby Bretzin and Doug Wiebe to examine the relationship between affective symptom reporting and return-to-play (RTP) progression after SRC among a cohort of Division 1 student-athletes. They found that student-athletes with...
This cross sectional investigation, by PISC Trainee Abby Bretzin and colleagues, measured the agreement between parent report of their 8–14 year old child’s sport-related concussion (SRC) history and their child’s self-report of their own SRC history. Read the full...
PISC Trainee Katie Hunzinger and colleagues found that risk of lower extremity musculoskeletal injury was not elevated in NFL players following a concussion, contrary to previous limited evidence. Read the full article
Former Center Director Douglas Wiebe and Trainees Abigail Bretzin and Bernadette D’Alonzo, along with the Ivy League–Big Ten Epidemiology of Concussion Study Investigators, examined the progression of collegiate student athletes through five stages of a...
Abby Bretzin led a paper examining sex differences in high school soccer concussions. Despite females having greater concussion rates relative to males, males had (1.54) greater odds of immediate removal from play. If an athletic trainer (AT) was the initial examiner,...
Abby Bretzin led a paper that found longer time to authorized clearance from specialized care (team physician, neurologist) and shorter time to clearance from urgent care (hospital, urgent care facility). Associations were also observed between sex and who was...
In the past several decades, there has been increasing awareness of the neuropathological effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their relation to increased risk of a range of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias...
The Ivy League – Big Ten Epidemiology of Concussion Study is a multi-institutional research effort whose mission is to better understand the causes and effects of sport-related concussion and head injuries. Researchers and athletic clinicians within the Big Ten,...