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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Athletes

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  Never let anything stop you. If you are an athlete with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury you want to restart your field career, this article is for you. Testing and managing athletes with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) include symptomatic testing, clinical examination, and neurocognitive testing with follow-up tests in the following days, weeks, to months of recovery.  The initial period of mental and physical relaxation followed by a gradual increase in physiologic and psychological stress in non-athlete athletes is a sign of management and a change in the management paradigm. Appropriate treatment includes accurate diagnosis and management using current guidelines to minimize the possible future withdrawal effects from TBI. So, any player accused of having Mild Traumatic Brain Injury should be removed from the field immediately for a thorough examination. If a player has a suspected brain injury and the doctor is not in place, the player should be removed from training or play ...