Citation

Abdullah KG, Grady MS, Levine JM. Curr. Neurol. Neurosci. Rep. 2015; 15(4): 535.

Affiliation

Departments of Neurosurgery, The Perelman School of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s11910-015-0535-3

PMID

25702047

Abstract

The issue of concussion in American football is of substantial interest to players, coaches, fans, and physicians. In this article, we review specific cultural hindrances to diagnosis and treatment of concussion in football. We review current trends in management and identify areas for improvement. We also discuss the obligations that physicians, particularly neurosurgeons and neurologists, have toward brain-injured football players and the larger societal role they may play in helping to minimize football-associated brain injury.

Language: en