Andy’s Quick Hits (183): Injuries after concussion

Andy Hab
2 min readMar 17, 2022

I have reported a number of times on concussion and the surprising negative and long-term impacts of concussion. Another little-known effect of concussion in sports people is that it seems to increase the chances of injury up to a year after concussion.

This seems like strange mechanism — how can concussion influence a tendon strain 6 months later? But this is precisely what…

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Andy Hab

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