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g the potential reasons for the difference between professional and high school athletes, the current study authors suggest, include neuro-developmental factors that may put children at greater risk and different tolerance levels between the two groups. Also, NFL players are a highly select population of elite, conditioned and skilled athletes who may be less prone to injury than less athletically conditioned and skilled amateur athletes.

NFL Advancing the Scientific Study of Concussion

This study is one in a series of 12 scientific investigations by the NFL's MTBI Committee published in Neurosurgery over the last several years. The last decade has witnessed rapid development of new innovative concussion management strategies in the NFL, including the implementation of computerized neuropsychological testing to easily and quickly provide team physicians and athletic trainers with unique objective data to aid in standard clinical assessment of concussion effects, recovery and safe return-to-play, according to Dr. Pellman.

"Neuropsychological testing can assist team physicians in their comprehensive medical evaluation of injured athletes by providing quantitative information on recovery from concussion and diagnostic information regarding subtle disruptions of cognitive processes such as attention, memory and speed that may not be detected by a cursory sideline evaluation and may not be recognized or admitted by the injured athlete himself," explained Dr. Lovell.

"Today, every NFL team is using some form of neuropsychological testing, and we anticipate that future studies will allow for even more sophisticated study of this group of elite athletes," added Dr. Pellman.

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