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York University concussion experts report that children and youth take longer to fully recover from a concussion than previously thought.<\/p>\n

\"Lauren<\/a>

Lauren Sergio<\/p><\/div>\n

After a concussion, young athletes usually rejoin their teams in a few weeks if they do not have any active symptoms. However, it might take up to two years to fully recover from the injury before they can play as skillfully as their teammates with no history of concussion, according Professor Lauren Sergio in the Faculty of Health.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerforming motor tasks, guided by what we see, is crucial in skill-based activities such as sports,\u201d said Sergio. \u201cBut the current return to sport assessment doesn\u2019t test to see if the injured person has regained this ability. Because of this, often children and youth who have had a concussion end up returning to normal activities before they are fully recovered. We believe this makes them more vulnerable to another concussion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The findings indicate that those in the age group of eight to 16 are not only vulnerable to concussions, but because their brain is still developing, they are neurologically more fragile than adults for performing tasks that require cognitive motor integration following a concussion.<\/p>\n

The latest research at Sergio\u2019s lab studied the prolonged difficulty in cognitive-motor integration in 50 children and adolescents with a history of concussion. Their performance was compared with 49 who have never had a concussion.<\/p>\n

Participants in both the groups were asked to perform two different tasks on a dual-touchscreen laptop. In one task target location and motor action were aligned. In the other task that tested cognitive-motor integration, the required movement was not aligned with the guiding visual target and required simultaneous thinking for successful performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe noticed significant difficulty in completing the tasks among those with concussion history,\u201d said Marc Dalecki, postdoctoral candidate and lead author. \u201cIn fact, it took many of the children two years after the concussion to have a similar performance on the task as children who did not have a history of concussion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study, \u201cProlonged cognitive\u2013motor impairments in children and adolescents with a history of concussion\u201d, is published in Future Science journal, Concussion<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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