TY - JOUR PY - 2015// TI - Sports-related traumatic brain injury JO - Primary care A1 - Phillips, Shawn A1 - Woessner, Derek SP - 243 EP - 248 VL - 42 IS - 2 N2 - Concussions have garnered more attention in the medical literature, media, and social media. As such, in the nomenclature according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the term concussion has been supplanted by the term mild traumatic brain injury. Current numbers indicate that 1.7 million TBIs are documented annually, with estimates around 3 million annually (173,285 sports- and recreation-related TBIs among children and adolescents). The Sideline Concussion Assessment Tool 3 and the NFL Sideline Concussion Assessment Tool are commonly used sideline tools.
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LA - en SN - 0095-4543 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pop.2015.01.010 ID - ref1 ER -