Comparison of Prescribed Physical Therapy to a Home Exercise Program for Pediatric Sports-Related Concussion Patients
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Design
2.2. Primary Exposures of Interest
2.3. Primary Outcome of Interest
2.4. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Characteristic | Overall | Treatment Modality, n (%) | p-Value | |
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HEP | PPT | |||
Overall | 159 (100.0) | 111 (100.0) | 48 (100.0) | <0.0001 |
Age, years | ||||
Years, mean (SD) | 14.5 (2.5) | 14.2 (2.8) | 15.3 (1.4) | 0.008 |
Sex | 0.332 | |||
Male | 67 (42.1) | 44 (39.6) | 23 (47.9) | |
Female | 92 (57.9) | 67 (60.4) | 25 (52.1) | |
Race/ethnicity | 0.830 | |||
White | 107 (67.3) | 74 (66.7) | 33 (68.8) | |
Black/African American | 18 (11.3) | 14 (12.6) | 4 (8.3) | |
Hispanic/Latino | 6 (3.8) | 3 (2.7) | 3 (6.3) | |
Other | 28 (17.6) | 20 (18.0) | 8 (16.7) | |
History of concussion | 0.752 | |||
No | 99 (62.3) | 70 (63.1) | 29 (60.4) | |
Yes | 60 (37.7) | 41 (36.9) | 19 (39.6) | |
VOMS a | ||||
Sum of differences, median (IQR) | 16.0 (6.0–32.5) | 16.0 (5.5–34.0) | 17.0 (9.5–31.5) | 0.760 |
Convergence | ||||
Distance, median (IQR) | 4.7 (1.0–10.7) | 5.0 (1.0–10.7) | 4.5 (1.0–10.0) | 0.919 |
PCSS | ||||
Total, median (IQR) | 36.0 (16.0–60.0) | 25.5 (14.0–53.0) | 50.0 (24.0–73.0) | 0.010 |
Recovery time | ||||
Days, median (IQR) | 42.0 (33.0–65.0) | 39.0 (33.0–57.0) | 52.0 (35.0–83.5) | 0.008 |
Time to clinic | ||||
Days, median (IQR) | 7.0 (3.0–23.0) | 7.0 (3.0–22.0) | 6.0 (3.0–27.0) | 0.810 |
Standardized Coefficients | Unstandardized Coefficients | ||||||
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Models | β | SE | 95% CI | IRR | SE | 95% CI | p |
Model 1 | 0.25 | 0.11 | 0.04, 0.45 | 1.28 | 0.13 | 1.04, 1.58 | 0.02 |
Model 2 | 0.20 | 0.11 | −0.01, 0.41 | 1.22 | 0.13 | 0.98, 1.51 | 0.07 |
Model 3 | 0.19 | 0.07 | 0.05, 0.34 | 1.21 | 0.09 | 1.05, 1.41 | 0.009 |
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Price, A.M.; Arvin, N.; Seagraves, B.; Burkhart, S.O.; Knell, G. Comparison of Prescribed Physical Therapy to a Home Exercise Program for Pediatric Sports-Related Concussion Patients. Children 2022, 9, 1371. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9091371
Price AM, Arvin N, Seagraves B, Burkhart SO, Knell G. Comparison of Prescribed Physical Therapy to a Home Exercise Program for Pediatric Sports-Related Concussion Patients. Children. 2022; 9(9):1371. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9091371
Chicago/Turabian StylePrice, August M., Nicholas Arvin, Benjamin Seagraves, Scott O. Burkhart, and Gregory Knell. 2022. "Comparison of Prescribed Physical Therapy to a Home Exercise Program for Pediatric Sports-Related Concussion Patients" Children 9, no. 9: 1371. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9091371