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Objective clinical tests of dual-task dynamic postural control in youth athletes with concussion
- Source :
- Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. 22:521-525
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- Objectives To prospectively evaluate single/dual-task timed-up-and-go (TUG) and tandem gait performance among children and adolescents with concussion and healthy controls. Design Repeated measures. Methods Participants with concussion (n = 23; age = 14.1 ± 2.5 years; 52% female) completed single/dual-task TUG, tandem gait, and symptom assessments 6.7 ± 2.6 and 23.3 ± 6.1 days post injury. The control group (n = 27; age = 14.1 ± 2.3 years; 48% female) completed the same protocol initially and 10.7 ± 16.1 days later. All participants completed single-task (undivided attention) and dual-task (divided attention) tests. The primary outcome variable was test completion time. Results The concussion group completed single-task (concussion group mean = 11.1 ± 1.9 vs. control group mean 9.9 ± 1.4 s, p = 0.027) and dual-task (concussion group mean = 14.4 ± 3.3 vs. control group mean 12.7 ± 1.9 s, p = 0.047) TUG tests slower than the control group across both time points. The concussion group completed dual-task tandem gait tests slower than the control group at both time points (21.3 ± 6.3 vs. 16.8 ± 5.5 s, p = 0.006), and were slower in the single-task condition at the first test (19.8 ± 5.4 vs. 13.8 ± 4.4 s, p = 0.003). Symptoms were significantly worse for the concussion group compared to the control group at the first (34.1 ± 21.4 vs. 3.9 ± 9.1, p Conclusions Slower dual-task TUG and tandem gait times were detected across both time points for the concussion group relative to the control group. In contrast, single-task tandem gait deficits appeared to improve in a similar fashion as symptoms, suggesting increased complexity from the addition of a cognitive task allows for the detection of persistent post-concussion deficits that might take longer to resolve.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Sports medicine
Tandem gait
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Concussion
medicine
Humans
Attention
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Prospective Studies
Child
Gait
Postural Balance
Brain Concussion
Balance (ability)
biology
Athletes
business.industry
Repeated measures design
Cognition
030229 sport sciences
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Case-Control Studies
Female
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14402440
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a7160446c37b10627efa3d3efcd569e4