Concussion on the rise in adolescents

Written by Lauren Pulling

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center (UC; CA, USA) have conducted the first study to evaluate trends in concussion diagnoses in the US population. Their data demonstrate that concussion diagnoses in adolescents are on the rise, and may be more common than previous estimates. The study was presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s Annual Meeting (7–10 July 2016, Colorado Springs, CO, USA). Lead author of the study, Alan Zhang (UC), commented: “Our team looked at the administrative health records of more than 8.8 million members of a large private payer insurance group and...

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