ArticleJournal of athletic training2019
Longitudinal Assessment of Balance and Gait After Concussion and Return to Play in Collegiate Athletes.
Article in Journal of athletic training, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- Gait Impairment in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Pooled it
- In People With Subacute Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Earlier Physical Therapy Improved Symptoms at a Faster Rate Than Later Physical Therapy: Randomized Controlled Trial.Physical therapy · 2025Trial
- A multimodal framework to assess differences in dynamic visual acuity between athletes with and without recent sport-related concussion.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Clinical Utility of the Sport Concussion Office Assessment Tool 6 (SCOAT6) and Other Select Multidomain Assessments for Subacute Sport-Related Concussion.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Article
- Sub-Symptom Threshold Balance Training Facilitates Post-Concussion Syndrome Symptom Resolution Beyond Balance Dysfunction.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- From Head to Toe: Investigating Postconcussion Risks for Lower Extremity Injuries in Young Athletes.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2025Article
- Running and Thinking: Unmasking the Lingering Effects of Sports Concussions Through Complex Dual-Task Testing.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Sensor-based technologies for motion analysis in sports injuries: a scoping review.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Instrumented Static and Reactive Balance in Collegiate Athletes: Normative Values and Minimal Detectable Change.Journal of athletic training · 2024Article
- Symptoms and Central Sensory Integration in People With Chronic mTBI: Clinical Implications.Military medicine · 2023Article
- Do sensorimotor control properties mediate sway in people with chronic balance complaints following mTBI?Gait & posture · 2022Article
- Free-living gait does not differentiate chronic mTBI patients compared to healthy controls.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- The Effect of Concussion History on Lower Extremity Injury Risk in College Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2022Article
- Sports related concussion: an emerging era in digital sports technology.NPJ digital medicine · 2021Review
- Potential Mechanisms of Acute Standing Balance Deficits After Concussions and Subconcussive Head Impacts: A Review.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2021Review
- Link between Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Poor Sleep, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Visible Perivascular Spaces in Veterans.Journal of neurotrauma · 2021Article
- Concussion History and Balance Performance in Adolescent Rugby Union Players.The American journal of sports medicine · 2021Article
- Reactive Postural Responses After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Their Association With Musculoskeletal Injury Risk in Collegiate Athletes: A Study Protocol.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2020Article
- Associations Between Neurochemistry and Gait Performance Following Concussion in Collegiate Athletes.The Journal of head trauma rehabilitationArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
contextIn longitudinal studies tracking recovery after concussion, researchers often have not considered the timing of return to play (RTP) as a factor in their designs, which can limit the understanding of how RTP may affect the analysis and resulting conclusions.
objectiveTo evaluate the recovery of balance and gait in concussed athletes using a novel linear mixed-model design that allows an inflection point to account for changes in trend that may occur after RTP.
designCohort study.
settingUniversity athletics departments, applied field setting. PATIENTS OR OTHER
participantsTwenty-three concussed (5 women, 18 men; age = 20.1 ± 1.3 years) and 25 healthy control (6 women, 19 men; age = 20.9 ± 1.4 years) participants were studied. Participants were referred by their team athletic trainers. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Measures consisted of the Balance Error Scoring System (BESS) total score, sway (instrumented root mean square of mediolateral sway), single-task gait speed, gait speed while simultaneously reading a handheld article (dual-task gait speed), dual-task cost of reading on gait speed, and dual-task cost of walking on reading.
resultsWe observed no significant effects or interactions for the BESS. Instrumented sway was worse in concussed participants, and a change in the recovery trend occurred after RTP. We observed group and time effects and group × time and group × RTP change interactions (
conclusionsChanges in the rate of recovery were coincident with the timing of RTP. Although we cannot suggest these changes were a result of the athletes returning to play, these findings demonstrate the need for further research to evaluate the effects of RTP on concussion recovery.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.