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Head injuries in sports are quite common injuries and do not only occur in contact sports. Especially neurology-affecting pathologies are dreaded, which may be due to the not-fully-understood injury mechanisms. Concussions and repetitive subconcussive head impacts occur in double-digit percentages of all head injuries in many sports and are dreaded because of possible long-term consequences. While diagnosis and treatment of minor head injuries is simple to perform and most of the times only causes short sport time-outs, correct diagnosis and treatment of concussions is challenging, often involves specialists and can last up to months. Specific rehabilitation protocols exist which aim to guarantee a safe return to sports and to former activity level. More severe brain injuries like coma or cerebral bleedings are fortunately seldom.
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Weber, J. (2020). Head Injuries. In: Krutsch, W., Mayr, H.O., Musahl, V., Della Villa, F., Tscholl, P.M., Jones, H. (eds) Injury and Health Risk Management in Sports. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60752-7_17
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