NCT04107844

Safe Return to Play After Concussion

Safe Return to Play After Concussion, Increased Knowledge of a Potential Physiological Deficit After Cessation of Symptoms

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University College of Northern Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will evaluate a combination of a novel Dual-task regime together with other already known tests in terms of defining when an athlete is ready to return to play after a concussion.

Detailed description

In this prospective study, we will evaluate a combination of a novel facilitating agility Dual-task regime together with sport concussion assessment tool -5 (SCAT5), Vestibular/Ocular-Motor Screening for Concussion, Agility T-test, Joint repositions error test and Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) in terms of defining when an athlete is ready to return to play after a concussion. We will investigate if a novel facilitating agility Dual-task test together with already widely used tests, can identify more athletes that after a concussion still isn't ready to return to play, due to a physiological deficit. We will test as many athletes as possible each season and when an athlete suffer a concussion, we will follow them to see when they reach their baseline level. As previous studies show a over representation of new injuries in athletes returning to play after a concussion, we will also register injuries from all included subjects in terms of injuries each year, to evaluate if athletes following our recommendations have a lower injury rate after returning to play after a concussion. We also hope to be able to get more knowledge about how pain catastrophizing is related to duration of concussions symptoms.

Conditions

• Concussion, Brain
• Sports Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Novel facilitating agility dual-task test combined with already known tests	We will investigate if a combination of a novel Dual-task test combined with already known tests can identify more athletes, not ready to return to play, although symptoms of concussion have stopped.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-10
• Primary completion: 2023-12-31
• Completion: 2024-12-31
• First posted: 2019-09-27
• Last updated: 2021-04-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark