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