ABSTRACT

Objectives

The purpose of our investigation was to compare post-concussion symptom profiles and postural control measures among female youth artistic athletes (gymnasts and cheerleaders) relative to female ball sport athletes (volleyball or basketball).

Methods/Findings

We compared 27 artistic athletes (median age = 15.0 years; evaluated median = 13 days post-injury) and 49 ball sport athletes (median age = 15.3 years; evaluated median = 10 days post-injury) within 21 days of sustaining a concussion on measures of symptom profiles and postural control (Balance Error Scoring System [BESS]), tandem gait, and Romberg tests. After adjusting for the independent effect of time from injury-evaluation, concussion history, and pre-morbid migraine history, we observed that artistic athletes performed the BESS tandem stance foam condition with fewer errors than ball sport athletes (β = −2.4; 95% CI = −4.7, −0.2; p = .03). Artistic athletes demonstrated a higher, yet not statistically significant, headache severity than ball sport athletes (median = 4.5 vs 4.0, p = .07).

Conclusions

Overall, artistic athletes had similar symptom profiles to ball sport athletes. Postural control measures, other than the BESS tandem stance foam condition, were not significantly different from ball sport athletes. This suggests that although their sports may require higher levels of balance, artistic athletes’ performance on post-concussion balance tests may be similar to athletes of other disciplines.

中文翻译：

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女性艺术运动员脑震荡后的症状特征和姿势控制。

摘要

目标

我们研究的目的是比较女性青年艺术运动员（体操运动员和啦啦队长）与女球类运动运动员（排球或篮球）的脑震荡后症状特征和姿势控制措施。

方法/发现

我们比较了脑震荡持续21天之内的27名艺术运动员（中位年龄= 15.0岁；评估中位数=伤后13天）和49名球类运动运动员（中位年龄= 15.3岁；评估中位数=损伤后10天）。症状特征和姿势控制（平衡误差评分系统[BESS]），串联步态和Romberg测试的方法。在根据伤害评估，脑震荡史和病前偏头痛史对时间的独立影响进行调整后，我们观察到，艺术运动员在进行BESS串联姿势泡沫训练时比球类运动员的错误少（β= −2.4； 95％ CI = -4.7，-0.2；p = .03）。艺术运动员表现出比球类运动运动员更高但没有统计学意义的头痛严重程度（中位数= 4.5 vs 4.0，p = .07）。

结论

总体而言，艺术运动员的症状特征与球类运动运动员相似。除了BESS串联姿势泡沫状况外，姿势控制措施与球类运动运动员没有显着差异。这表明，尽管他们的运动可能需要更高的平衡水平，但是艺术运动员在脑震荡后的平衡测试中的表现可能与其他学科的运动员相似。