Bidirectional Association Between Daily Physical Activity and Postconcussion Symptoms Among Youth

Jingzhen Yang; Menglin Xu; Lindsay Sullivan; H Gerry Taylor; Keith Owen Yeates

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.27486

Bidirectional Association Between Daily Physical Activity and Postconcussion Symptoms Among Youth

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Nov 2;3(11):e2027486. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.27486.

Authors

Jingzhen Yang^{1

2}, Menglin Xu³, Lindsay Sullivan⁴, H Gerry Taylor^{2

5}, Keith Owen Yeates^{6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Injury Research and Policy, The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.
² Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, College of Medicine, Columbus.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, College of Medicine, Columbus.
⁴ Discipline of Children's Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland.
⁵ Biobehavioral Health Center, The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.
⁶ Department of Psychology, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁷ Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Abstract

This cohort study investigates whether a bidirectional association exists between daily physical activity and postconcussion symptoms among youths with physician-confirmed concussion.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Actigraphy / methods*
Actigraphy / statistics & numerical data
Adolescent
Child
Cohort Studies
Exercise / physiology*
Female
Humans
Male
Observational Studies as Topic
Post-Concussion Syndrome / diagnosis*
Post-Concussion Syndrome / epidemiology
Prospective Studies
Recovery of Function / physiology*
Time Factors
United States / epidemiology

Grants and funding

R21 HD086451/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States