ArticleSports health2014
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and athletes.
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- The therapeutic potential of exercise and caffeine on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in athletes.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
- On the same team: A call for increased medicolegal knowledge exchanges between forensic psychiatry and sports psychiatry.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Risk and Protective Factors of Generalized Anxiety Disorder of Elite Collegiate Athletes: A Cross-Sectional Study.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Accident patterns in trauma surgery patients with and without self-reported ADHD.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2019Article
- Natural Compounds for the Management of Parkinson's Disease and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.BioMed research international · 2018Review
- Factors Influencing Clinical Correlates of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE): a Review.Neuropsychology review · 2016Review
- Evidence-Based Considerations and Recommendations for Athletic Trainers Caring for Patients With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.Journal of athletic training · 2016Review
- Impulsivity and Concussion in Juvenile Rats: Examining Molecular and Structural Aspects of the Frontostriatal Pathway.PloS one · 2015Article
- Association of symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder with symptoms of excessive exercising in an adult general population sample.BMC psychiatry · 2014Article
- Childhood challenges.Sports health · 2014Article
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Abstract
contextAttention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is common in the general population, and many individuals with this condition participate in sports activity at all competition levels. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION: Related studies were selected through literature searches of PubMed, MEDLINE, and Cochrane databases for the years 1991 to 2011. Key search terms were ADD, ADHD, sports, athletes, athletics, guidelines, NCAA, WADA, IOC, college, concussion, diagnosis, management, treatment, evaluation, return-to-play, pharmacotherapy, adult, adolescent, student, screening, injury, risk, neuropsychiatry, TBI, traumatic brain injury, and epidemiology. STUDY
designLiterature review. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level 4.
resultsADHD usually has an early onset, with delayed diagnosis in some patients due to heterogeneous presentations. Suspected cases can be evaluated with available diagnostic tools and confirmed clinically. Athletes with ADHD may participate at all competition levels.
conclusionAthletes with ADHD are able to participate at all competition levels by following published guidelines and requirements. Exercise benefits many athletes with ADHD. The relationship between ADHD and concussion syndromes is currently under investigation.
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