There is some new research out of Michigan State University that has now confimred what we have been saying and working for here at Atalanta's Pride.  The Study reveals female athletes take longer to recover from concussions, findings that call for physicians and athletic trainers to take sex and age into account when dealing with the injury. The study was led by Tracey Covassin of MSU's Department of Kinesiology.  In their research they found females performed worse than males on visual memory tests and reported more symptoms postconcussion. In an interesting finding high school athletes performed worse than college athletes on verbal and visual memory tests. The study tested young athletes for balance and verbal and visual memory. Researchers tracked the athletes for two years. In that time 300 of the athletes received a concussion and were tested again. Results showed that high school athletes performed worse for their age than college-aged athletes. Relevant to young … [Read more...]