@article{ref1,
title="Baseline properties of the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (SCAT3) in Iranian Professional League football players",
journal="Asian journal of sports medicine",
year="2017",
author="Hassanmirzae, Bahar and Haratian, Zohreh and Moghadam, Navid and Ashraf-Ganjouei, Amir",
volume="8",
number="4",
pages="e58076-e58076",
abstract="BACKGROUND: SCAT3 is a standardized tool, which can evaluate injured athletes for concussion and provide us with the necessary baseline data. Like any other sport, playing football (soccer) carries a high risk of injury. Thus, this study investigated the baseline properties of SCAT3 in Iranian Professional League football players and evaluated the correlation between different factors and a history of concussion.   Methods: All of the players of 16 different teams who would be participating in the 2016 - 2017 Iranian Professional League (n = 368), were enrolled in this study. Completing SCAT3 was part of the pre-competition Medical assessment. Beside presenting the descriptive data, different variables were analyzed to evaluate the association with a &quot;prior history of concussion&quot;, in order to find probable risk factors for head injuries.   Results: Forty-one players have had a history of concussion in the previous year and data analysis among the different categories showed that having a history of concussion bore a significant correlation with number of symptoms and symptom severity (P values: 0.023 and 0.041, respectively).   Conclusions: Athletes with a history of concussion reported an increased number of symptoms and a higher severity score, but other SCAT3 properties such as total SAC scores and M-BESS were not affected by a history of concussion. This study aids clinicians in evaluating athletes suffering injuries to the head during football matches.   Keywords: Head Trauma; Sports; Football  Copyright: Copyright © 2017, Asian Journal of Sports Medicine. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2008-000X",
doi="10.5812/asjsm.58076",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/asjsm.58076"
}