- Title
- Effects of exercise on Sport Concussion Assessment Tool-Third Edition performance in professional athletes
- Creator
- Lee, Jin H.; Howell, David R.; Meehan, William P.; Iverson, Grant L.; Gardner, Andrew J.
- Relation
- Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine Vol. 5, Issue 9
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2325967117727261
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Background: The Sport Concussion Assessment Tool–Third Edition (SCAT3) is currently considered the standard sideline assessment for concussions. In-game exercise, however, may affect SCAT3 performance and the diagnosis of concussions. Purpose: To examine the influence of exercise on SCAT3 performance in professional male athletes. Study Design: Controlled laboratory study. Methods: We examined the SCAT3 performance of 82 professional male athletes under 2 conditions: at rest and after exercise. Results: Athletes reported significantly fewer total symptoms (mean, 1.0 ± 1.5 vs 1.6 ± 2.3 total symptoms, respectively; P = .008; Cohen d = 0.34), committed significantly fewer errors on the modified Balance Error Scoring System (mean, 3.5 ± 3.5 vs 4.6 ± 4.1 errors, respectively; P = .017; d = 0.31), and required significantly less time to complete the tandem gait test (mean, 9.5 ± 1.4 vs 9.9 ± 1.7 seconds, respectively; P = .02; d = 0.30) during the at-rest condition compared with the postexercise condition. Conclusion: The interpretation of in-game (sideline) SCAT3 results should consider the effects of postexercise fatigue levels on an athlete’s performance, particularly if preseason baseline data have been collected when the athlete was well rested.
- Subject
- SCAT3; concussion; sideline assessment; athletes
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1397708
- Identifier
- uon:34340
- Identifier
- ISSN:2325-9671
- Rights
- This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work as published without adaptation or alteration, without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
- Language
- eng
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