Children, Youth Take Longer to Fully Recover From Concussion

Whom is going to reconcile these two conflicting studies?

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The latest here: I don't think our doctors have any fucking clue yet how to handle concussions. If they can't even handle concussions I would never trust them to be able to handle strokes.

Children, Youth Take Longer to Fully Recover From Concussion

Children and youth take longer to fully recover from a concussion than previously thought, according to a study published in the journal Concussion.

After a concussion, young athletes usually rejoin their teams in a few weeks if they do not have any active symptoms. However, it might take up to 2 years to fully recover from the injury before they can play as skilfully as their teammates with no history of concussion, according Lauren Sergio, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
“Performing motor tasks, guided by what we see, is crucial in skill-based activities such as sports,” said Sergio. “But the current return to sport assessment doesn't test to see if the injured person has regained this ability. Because of this often children and youth who have had a concussion end up returning to normal activities before they are fully recovered. We believe this makes them more vulnerable to another concussion.”
The findings indicate that children and adolescents aged 8 to 16 years are not only vulnerable to concussions, but because their brain is still developing, they are neurologically more fragile than adults for performing tasks that require cognitive motor integration following a concussion.
The latest research at Sergio's lab studied the prolonged difficulty in cognitive-motor integration in 50 children and adolescents with a history of concussion. Their performance was compared with 49 who have never had a concussion.
Participants in both the groups were asked to perform 2 different tasks on a dual-touchscreen laptop. In one task target location and motor action were aligned. In the other task that tested cognitive-motor integration, the required movement was not aligned with the guiding visual target and required simultaneous thinking for successful performance.
“We noticed significant difficulty in completing the tasks among those with concussion history,” said lead author Marc Dalecki, York University. “In fact, it took many of the children 2 years after the concussion to have a similar performance on the task as children who did not have a history of concussion.”
SOURCE: York University