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Athletic head trauma (both concussive and sub-concussive) is common among
adolescents. Concussion typically is followed by motion sickness-like symptoms,
by changes in cognitive performance, and by changes in standing body sway. We
asked whether pre-bout body sway would differ between adolescent boxers who
experienced post-bout motion sickness and those who did not. In addition, we
asked whether pre-bout cognitive performance would differ as a function of
adolescent boxers' post-bout motion sickness. Nine of nineteen adolescent boxers
reported motion sickness after a bout. Pre-bout measures of cognitive performance
and body sway differed between boxers who reported post-bout motion sickness and
those who did not. The results suggest that susceptibility to motion
sickness-like symptoms in adolescent boxers may be manifested in characteristic
patterns of body sway and cognitive performance. It may be possible to use
pre-bout data to predict susceptibility to post-bout symptoms.
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