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Concussion, or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), is one of the most complex clinical phenomena, as is reflected by long-standing debate over both the defining aspects of the condition and the best methods of clinical management. Since the 1980s, the sports arena has provided a natural laboratory for examining the nature and consequences of mild head injury and, in the process, has revealed a variety of circumstances and characteristics that are unique to sports-related concussion and its management (Barth et al. 2002). In this chapter, we describe the basic and clinical science of concussion, its epidemiology and underlying pathophysiology, and some of the controversy associated with the identification and definition of this injury. We then discuss the unique characteristics of sports-related mTBI and review the current methods for clinical management and treatment of sports-related concussions.
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