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Abstracts from the 4th International Conference on Concussion in Sport (Zurich, 2012)

• Abstracts: Comparative incidence of concussion and return to play time in two Canadian minor hockey groups over the 2011–2012 season (11 March, 2013)

  D J Rhine, T Lamvohee
• Acute sports concussions: The effect of multiple sub-concussive blows on brain structural and functional integrity: combined virtual reality and neuroimaging study (11 March, 2013)

  Semyon Slobounov, Wayne Sebastianelli
• Knowledge transfer and education: Concussion education and awareness support group: the value of a pilot clinical program as an essential Knowledge Transfer and Exchange (KTE) strategy (11 March, 2013)

  Christine Provvidenza, James Kissick, Laura Purcell, Karen Johnston
• Knowledge transfer and education: Concussion and strength performance in youth ice hockey players (11 March, 2013)

  Nick Reed, Tim Taha, Michelle L Keightley
• Return to play issues in sports concussion: Concussion and concurrent cognitive and sport-specific task performance in youth ice hockey players: a pilot study (11 March, 2013)

  Nick Reed, Philippe Fait, Olinda Habib Perez, Karl Zabjek, Michelle L Keightley
• Modifiers and long term issues: Exploring parent and youth perspectives of the influence of concussion on school, sport and life: a qualitative study (11 March, 2013)

  Christine Provvidenza, Michelle L Keightley, Nick Reed, Stephanie Green
• New investigation or diagnostic strategies: Neuroimaging dual task performance in youth after sports-related concussion: an fMRI study (11 March, 2013)

  Michelle L Keightley, Katia Sinopoli, Greg Wells, Jen-Kai Chen, Tim Taha, Alain Ptito
• New investigation or diagnostic strategies: Working memory in youth following sports-related concussion: is it still working? an fMRI study (11 March, 2013)

  Michelle L Keightley, Rajeet Singh Saluja, Jen-Kai Chen, Alain Ptito, Isabelle Gagnon
• New investigation or diagnostic strategies: Balance testing of concussion patients using dual-task interference (11 March, 2013)

  Verle D Valentine, Jason C Dorman, Thayne A Munce, Hannah K Nelson, Shanna L Kindt, B Joel Tjarks, Michael F Bergeron
• Acute sports concussion: Diffusion tensor imaging of sport related concussion in adolescents (11 March, 2013)

  Naznin Virji-Babul, Michael Borich, Nadia Makan, Tiffany Moore, Kira Frew, Carolyn A Emery, Lara Boyd
• New investigation or diagnostic strategies: Psychophysiological and neuromotor indicators of brain concussion (11 March, 2013)

  Éric Le Bouthillier, Michel Caouette, Fanny Guérin
• New investigation or diagnostic strategies: Montreal cognitive assessment (MoCA): baseline evaluation of cognition in the athletic population (11 March, 2013)

  C T Debert, B W Benson, S Dukelow
• New investigation or diagnostic strategies: Does changing policy to disallow body checking reduce the risk of concussion in 11 and 12-year-old ice hockey players? (11 March, 2013)

  C A Emery, A Macpherson, J Kang, B Hagel, A Black, M Romiti, W H Meeuwisse
• Knowledge transfer and education: Effectiveness of the particle repositioning maneuver for benign positional vertigo following traumatic brain injury (11 March, 2013)

  Donna Ouchterlony, Alicja Michalak, Jane Topolovec-Vranic, John A Rutka, Cheryl Masanic
• Knowledge transfer and education: Sport concussion knowledge base, clinical practices, and needs for continuing medical education: a survey of family physicians and cross-border comparison (11 March, 2013)

  Constance M Lebrun, Martin Mrazik, Abhaya Prasad, B Joel Tjarks, Jason C Dorman, Michael F Bergeron, Thayne A Munce, Verle D Valentine
• Return to play issues in sports concussion: Baseline concussion symptom report in college athletes: comparison of scores on SCAT2 versus impact (11 March, 2013)

  Constance M Lebrun, Martin Mrazik, Joan Matthews-White, Nicole Lemke, Dhiren Naidu.
• New investigation or diagnostic strategies: The effect of age, sex, and concussion history on preseason ImPACT values of elite Canadian youth ice hockey players (11 March, 2013)

  Carly D McKay, Brian L Brooks, Willem H Meeuwisse, Martin Mrazik, Andrea L Jubinville, Carolyn A Emery.
• New investigation or diagnostic strategies: Test-retest reliability of the sport concussion assessment tool 2 (SCAT2) for uninjured children and young adults (11 March, 2013)

  Monica Chan, Jannick Vicky Vielleuse, Stephanie Vokaty, Matthew Ari Wener, Isabelle Pearson, Isabelle Gagnon
• Acute Sports Concussion: What factors increase the risk of concussion in elite youth ice hockey players? (11 March, 2013)

  Tracy A Blake, Jian Kang, Willem H Meeuwisse, Nicole Lemke, Kathryn J Schneider, Kirsten A Taylor, Carolyn A Emery
• Acute Sports Concussion: Sport concussion assessment tool-second edition in an emergency department setting (11 March, 2013)

  Teemu M Luoto, Anneli Kataja, Antti Brander, Juha Öhman, Grant L Iverson
• New investigations or diagnostic strategies: A novel brain imaging technology for concussion management demonstrated on a scopolamine induced cognitive impairment model (11 March, 2013)

  Amit Reches, Noga Gal, Dani Kerem, Shany Grossman, Dalia Dickman, Amir Geva
• Knowledge translation: Do Canadian sport and exercise medicine physicans and emergency physicians give consistent sport-related concussion management advice? (11 March, 2013)

  James Carson, Laura Purcell, Bruce Davidson, Alisha Garel, Margaret Bell, Rahim Moineddin
• Knowledge translation: Do family physicans, emergency physicians and paediatricians give consistent sport-related concussion management advice? (11 March, 2013)

  Jacqueline Stoller, James Carson, Laura Purcell, Bruce Davidson, Alisha Garel, Margaret Bell, Catherine Snow, Marcus Law
• Advances in concussion management: Academic accommodation for post concussion student athletes: can physicians do better? (11 March, 2013)

  James Carson, Catherine Snow, David Lawrence, Sari Kraft, Ananda Chatterjee, Heather MacKenzie, Rahim Moineddin, Pierre Frémont
• Modifiers and long term issues: Are clinical measures of cervical flexor endurance, divided attention and dynamic visual acuity different in elite youth ice hockey players who report a previous history of concussion compared to those who do not? (11 March, 2013)

  Kathryn J Schneider, Carolyn A Emery, Jian Kang, Willem Meeuwisse
• Trauma/critical care: Diffusion tensor and susceptibility-weighted imaging in concussion assessment of national football league players (11 March, 2013)

  Neal Luther, Sumit Niogi, Kenneth Kutner, Scott Rodeo, Teena Shetty, Russell Warren, Leigh Weiss, Ronnie Barnes, Robert Zimmerman, Apostolos Tsiouris, Roger Hartl
• New investigation or diagnostic strategies: Effects of exercise on symptoms, cognitive and motor performance tasks using the sport concussion assessment tool (SCAT2) in healthy young adults and children (11 March, 2013)

  Nour Boutros, Mary Catherine Norcia, Jamila Sammouda, Chi-Lan Tran, Isabelle Pearson, Isabelle Gagnon
• Acute sports concussion: Persistent differences in patterns of brain activation after sports- related concussion: a longitudinal fMRI study (11 March, 2013)

  Annegret Dettwiler, Murali Murugavel, Margot Putukian, Ruben Echemendia, Valerie Cubon, John Furtado, Daniel Osherson
• Advances in concussion management: Another look at active rehabilitation for slow-to-recover sport-related concussion in children and adolescents: further evidence to support its effectiveness (11 March, 2013)

  Isabelle Gagnon
• Knowledge transfer and education: A sample of headache incidence in post concussive patients (11 March, 2013)

  Donna Ouchterlony, Patricia Johnson, Amy Wong, Alicja Michalak, Jane Topolovec-Vranic, Cheryl Masanic, Zeesham Waseem
• Miscellaneous: Genetic polymorphisms, concussion risk, and post concussion neurocognitive deficits in college and high school athletes (11 March, 2013)

  Thomas R Terrell, Roberd M Bostick, Jeffery Barth, Douglas McKeag, Robert C Cantu, Rick Sloane, Leslie Galloway, David Erlanger, Verle Valentine, K Bielak
• New Investigation or Diagnostic Strategies: Quantitative assessment of sensorimotor dysfunction and recovery using robotics in athletes sustaining an acute sport-related concussion (11 March, 2013)

  Brian Benson, Jennifer Semrau, Chantel Debert, Stephen Scott, Willem Meeuwisse, Sean Dukelow
• New Investigation or Diagnostic Strategies: Head contacts in collegiate football measured with an instrumented mouthguard (11 March, 2013)

  David Camarillo, James Mattson, Michael Flynn, Sheng Yang, Pete Shull, Rebecca Shultz, Gordon Matheson, Daniel Garza
• Acute Sports Concussion: Acute clinical signs and outcome of concussion in National Hockey League (NHL) players (11 March, 2013)

  Paul Comper, Michael Hutchison
• Risk reduction: Concussions in National Hockey League (NHL) players: 5-year video analysis (11 March, 2013)

  Michael Hutchison, Paul Comper
• Return to play issues in sports concussion: The University of Toronto Concussion Symptom Scale: do initial symptoms predict outcome? (11 March, 2013)

  Doug Richards, Michael Hutchison, Seper Ekhtiari, Paul Comper
• Miscellaneous: The development of an observational tool to code knockouts in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) (11 March, 2013)

  Michael Hutchison, Michael Cusimano, David Lawrence, Tanveer Singh
• Advances in concussion management: Detecting suboptimal effort in concussion management settings with the axon sports CCAT (11 March, 2013)

  Andrea G Louey, Paul Maruff, Jason A Cromer
• Risk Reduction: Comprehensive analysis of ‘knockouts’ in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) (11 March, 2013)

  Michael Hutchison, Michael Cusimano, David Lawrence, Tanveer Singh
• New Investigation or Diagnostic Strategies and Advances in Concussion Management: Quantitative assessment of postural stability using accelerometer and gyroscopic data during balance error scoring system (11 March, 2013)

  Jay L Alberts, Joshua R Hirsch, Richard Figler, Andrew N Russman, Robert Gray, Susan M Linder
• New Investigation or Diagnostic Strategies and Advances in Concussion Management: How the new taekwondo rules have decreased the injuries and concussions since 2008 (11 March, 2013)

  Paul Viscogliosi
• Acute sports concussion Return to play issues in sports concussion: Concussion management by paediatricians: a national survey of Canadian paediatricians (11 March, 2013)

  Kevin Gordon, Minh T Do, Wendy Thompson, Steven McFaull
• Modifiers and long-term issues: National Hockey League players' experiences with career-ending concussions (11 March, 2013)

  Jeffrey G Caron, Gordon A Bloom, Karen M Johnston, Catherine M Sabiston
• New Investigation or diagnostic strategies: Classification analyses of pediatric concussion assessment battery (11 March, 2013)

  Gerard Gioia, Peter Isquith, Christopher Vaughan
• Advances in concussion management or risk reduction: School problems following sports concussion. Which children are at greatest risk? (11 March, 2013)

  Christopher Vaughan, Gerard Gioia, Maegan Sady
• Acute sports concussion Return to play issues in sports concussion: Variability in discharge instructions and activity restrictions for patients evaluated in a children's emergency department following concussion (11 March, 2013)

  Valerie J De Maio, Damilola O Joseph, Holly Tibbo-Valeriote, Brian Lanier, Johna Register-Mihalik
• Advances in concussion management: Epidemiology and age comparisons of patients presenting to a dedicated community concussion clinic (11 March, 2013)

  Johna K Register-Mihalik, Valerie J De Maio, Holly Tibbo-Valeriote, Brian Lanier, Thomas Jackson, John D Wooten
• Advances in concussion management: Health-related quality of life following sport-related concussion in interscholastic athletes (11 March, 2013)

  Tamara C Valovich McLeod, R Curtis Bay, Alison R Valier, Kenneth C Lam, John T Parsons
• Acute sports concussion: Sport concussion assessment tool-2 (SCAT2) scores in the acute phase following concussion in high school athletes (11 March, 2013)

  Richelle M Mayfield, Lindsey Shepherd, Tamara C Valovich McLeod, R Curtis Bay
• Advances in concussion management: School absence, academic accommodation and health-related quality of life in adolescents with sport-related concussion (11 March, 2013)

  John T Parsons, R Curtis Bay, Tamara C Valovich McLeod
• Risk reduction: Isometric cervical muscle strength mitigates head impact severity (11 March, 2013)

  Julianne Denice Schmidt, Kevin M Guskiewicz, Jason P Mihalik
• Risk reduction: Player aggression affects head impact biomechanics in youth ice hockey players (11 March, 2013)

  Jason P Mihalik, Kevin M Guskiewicz, Stephen W Marshall
• Acute sports concussion, New Investigation, Risk reduction and Knowledge transfer and education: Head impact biomechanics in ski related accident (11 March, 2013)

  Svein Kleiven, Peter Halldin
• Advances in concussion management: Cervico-vestibular physiotherapy in the treatment of individuals with persistent symptoms following sport related concussion: a randomised controlled trial (11 March, 2013)

  Kathryn J Schneider, Willem H Meeuwisse, Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, Lara Boyd, Karen M Barlow, Carolyn A Emery