Citation

Howell DR, Kirkwood MW, Provance A, Iverson GL, Meehan WP. Concussion 2018; 3(1): CNC54.

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics & Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, The Drake Foundation, Publisher Future Medicine)

DOI

10.2217/cnc-2017-0014

PMID

30202596

PMCID

PMC6094155

Abstract

Understanding how a concussion affects an individual is oftentimes difficult for clinicians due to the varying symptom profiles reported by the patient and the multifaceted and heterogeneous nature of the injury. Accordingly, the interpretation of postconcussion performance can be challenging, because many different testing paradigms have been reported as potentially useful in the literature. Among the types of tests clinicians use to understand how concussion affects an individual, both gait and neurocognitive evaluations have demonstrated utility. Our purpose is to describe how combined gait and cognitive (i.e., dual task), as well as single-task gait and computerized neurocognitive examinations can assist clinical decision-making.

Language: en

Keywords

attention; dual-task; locomotion; mild traumatic brain injury; neurocognition; recovery