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Each year, athletes in the United States are estimated to suffer 300,000 sports concussions, often while participating in contact sports, such as football, mixed martial arts, boxing, soccer, and hockey. Concussions can have serious and long-term consequences, making a complete understanding of their causes and effects critical not only for clinical care but also for public health awareness and prevention. In this chapter, we discuss the etiology and sequelae of sports concussions, offer a summary of the guidelines on triage and treatment of these injuries, and survey the existing literature for areas of future research.

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Perry, B.N., Collins, K., O’Conor, E., Weeks, S.R., Tsao, J.W. (2020). Sports Concussion. In: Tsao, J. (eds) Traumatic Brain Injury. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22436-3_5

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