Citation

Anderson MN, Womble MN, Mohler SA, Said A, Stephenson-Brown K, Kontos AP, Elbin RJ. Dev. Neuropsychol. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Office for Sport Related Concussion Research/Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation, The University of Arkansas , Fayetteville , Arkansas , USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/87565641.2019.1667995

PMID

31537099

Abstract

The influence of fear of re-injury that this variable has on recovery outcomes following sports-related concussion remains unknown. We examined changes in fear of re-injury throughout concussion recovery, and compared changes in neurocognitive, symptom, vestibular/ocular motor, and recovery time outcomes between concussed adolescent athletes who endorsed high and low fear of re-injury. Individuals with high fear of re-injury were more symptomatic and more likely to exhibit vestibular/ocular motor symptoms over clinical cutoffs than those with low fear of re-injury. Recovery time was not significantly different between the groups. These findings may help explain performance on more subjective concussion assessments.

Language: en