Sentences with word «postconcussion»

Symptoms of postconcussion syndrome can include severe headache, dizziness, difficulty in concentration, depression, and anxiety.

Lindros is sensitive to other players» injuries, which is not surprising when you consider that his brother Brett's career was cut short because of postconcussion syndrome.

Impaired eye movement function has also been shown to correlate well with the severity of postconcussion symptoms and with limitations of activities of daily living.

Studies show that saccadic movements - the quick eye movements used in reading - are frequently abnormal following concussion and may predict whether an athlete will suffer from postconcussion syndrome (e.g. symptoms which persist over a long period of time, instead of clearing within the first 7 to 10 days, as in the vast majority of cases)(over 90 % in one recent study).

Studies have shown a relationship between postconcussion activity level and performance on neurocognitive tests, with athletes engaging in the highest levels of activity performing the worst on such tests.

The N.F.L. now has a concussion management protocol, outlined in an inches - thick document that commands teams to institute a specific, detailed game - day and postconcussion course of action.

Carson knows he's luckier than other athletes with postconcussion syndrome.

It was only toward the end of his career that he began to exhibit the cumulative effects of all these hits, signaling what his doctors would later call postconcussion syndrome.

The long - lasting symptoms that many patients contend with following mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), also known as concussion, may be posttraumatic disorder (PTSD) and not postconcussion syndrome (PCS).

The death certificate had noted somewhat mysteriously that Webster suffered from «depression secondary to postconcussion syndrome.»