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Age, previous sports experience, stronger predictors of performance in children than previous concussions, 91ÑÇÉ« U study finds 

A new study from 91ÑÇɫ’s Faculty of Health may offer reassuring news for parents whose children have a history of concussion, but want to get back to playing sports. Researchers from 91ÑÇɫ’s Faculty of Health spent more than a decade scouting fields, rinks and courts across the Greater Toronto Area for participants with a history of concussion and tested their performance on complex eye-hand coordination tasks, finding that age and previous sports experience were larger factors in cognitive-motor integration than a history of multiple concussions. 

Study suggests impact of concussions reduced in children with more years of sport experience

TORONTO, April 4, 2019 – More years in sports – not less – may help protect the brains of children who have had a concussion, against future concussions, a new study says. Research from 91ÑÇɫ’s Faculty of Health found that children who have played in a performance sport for at least seven years, and have […]