Are concussions in children different?
Children are much different from adults in respect to maturity and how their body responds to traumatic events. Your child’s maturity rate will greatly affect how they respond to a sport-related concussion. Children mature differently in different categories of maturation, these include physical growth, motor development, cognitive, visual-motor, auditory, and perceptual motor.5 These different growth rates can cause an imbalance in competition which can lead to serious injuries.6 The rate at which a child develops will greatly influence their response to suffering from a concussion. The difference between youth and adult concussions is also in issue and they need to be handled differently.
