Howell David R, Kirkwood Michael W, Provance Aaron, Iverson Grant L, Meehan William P
The Micheli Center for Sports Injury Prevention, Waltham, MA 02453, USA.
Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Concussion. 2018 Jan 19;3(1):CNC54. doi: 10.2217/cnc-2017-0014. eCollection 2018 Mar.
Understanding how a concussion affects an individual is oftentimes difficult for clinicians due to the varying symptom profiles reported by the patient and the multifaceted and heterogeneous nature of the injury. Accordingly, the interpretation of postconcussion performance can be challenging, because many different testing paradigms have been reported as potentially useful in the literature. Among the types of tests clinicians use to understand how concussion affects an individual, both gait and neurocognitive evaluations have demonstrated utility. Our purpose is to describe how combined gait and cognitive (i.e., dual task), as well as single-task gait and computerized neurocognitive examinations can assist clinical decision-making.
对于临床医生而言,由于患者报告的症状表现各异,且脑震荡损伤具有多方面和异质性的特点,因此了解脑震荡如何影响个体往往颇具难度。相应地,脑震荡后表现的解读可能具有挑战性,因为文献中已报道了许多不同的测试范式,它们都可能有用。在临床医生用于了解脑震荡如何影响个体的测试类型中,步态评估和神经认知评估均已证明具有实用价值。我们的目的是描述联合步态与认知(即双重任务)测试,以及单任务步态和计算机化神经认知检查如何辅助临床决策。