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,...
Contributed to by PISC Senior Scholars Kristy Arbogast, PhD, Joel Fein, MD, MPH, and Daniel Corwin, MD, this study compared demographic characteristics, medical care, and outcomes among patients with assault-related concussions (ARC) versus sports and...
There is a lack of medical consensus as to what constitutes recovery from a pediatric concussion. A recent study featuring PISC Senior Scholar Daniel Corwin, MD, Executive Committee Member Catherine McDonald, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Senior Scholar Kristy Arbogast, PhD,...
