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Objectively Assessing Sports Concussion Utilizing Visual Evoked Potentials
Published on: April 27, 2021
Remote concussion history does not affect visually-guided reaching in young adult females
Christopher Fueger1, Lauren E Sergio2, Sabine Heuer3
1Department of Kinesiology: Integrative Health Care & Performance, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA.
Aim:
We examined the long-term effects of concussions in young adult females on visuomotor behavior during a visually-guided reaching task of various complexities.
Materials & Methods:
20 females with a history of longer than 6 months since a concussion and 20 healthy females quickly and accurately performed a delayed reach to a previously cued target.
Results:
As both cognitive and motor load increased, task performance decreased for both groups (p < 0.05). However, contrary to our primary hypothesis, no differences in task performance were found between the two experimental groups (p > 0.05).
Conclusion:
The young adult females with a remote history of concussion demonstrated no deficits in visuomotor behavior on an attention-mediated reaching task as compared with control participants.
