Removing Kids from Games Aids Concussion Recovery

November 16th, 2016

Children who get a concussion (or have an injury to the head) during a sports game and are kept from playing until they recover get better quicker. Michael Collins, PhD, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and clinical and executive director of the UPMC Sports Medicine Concussion Program, recently published a study in Pediatrics, reporting that the average recovery time for sports-related concussions was twice as long for children who kept playing as for those who were removed immediately. Read more research-based concussion facts here.