Estimated recovery time after concussion

Restore after concussion should take up to 28 days. Researchers from the USA came to this conclusion, whose article was published in the Sports Medicine magazine.

Scientists appreciated the data on the health of 34.7 thousand participants of student sports in the United States. More than 1.7 thousand of them occurred concussion. Most often a concussion was received by players in American football, football and basketball. The women’s concussions were most common in football, volleyball and basketball.

Despite the fact that the median recovery time correctedly with the previously established standard of 14 days, most athletes were fairly ready to participate in competitions only a month after injury. Faster, men and people who took medications in the syndrome of attention and hyperactivity deficiency syndrome were slower, slower – athletes with the history of previous brain concussions. However, the difference in these cases was no more than two days, the researchers emphasize.

/Media reports.