Sports Neurology

SECTION I. Introduction
1. Sports and the human brain: an evolutionary perspective
2. Sports neurology as a multidisciplinary field

SECTION II. Traumatic brain injury and concussion
3. Mild traumatic brain injury and concussion: terminology and classification
4. Catastrophic neurologic injuries in sport
5. Concussive and subconcussive brain trauma: the complexity of impact biomechanics and injury
risk in contact sport
6. Concussion: pathophysiology and clinical translation
7. Epidemiology of sports concussion in the United States
8. Sideline assessment of concussion
9. Emergency department evaluation of the concussed athlete
10. Office-based concussion evaluation, diagnosis, and management: adult
11. Office-based concussion evaluation, diagnosis, and management: pediatric
12. The relationship of migraine and other headache disorders to concussion
13. Sleep disorders and concussion
14. Vestibular dysfunction and concussion
15. Neuro-ophthalmologic disorders following concussion
16. Neuropsychiatry of sport-related concussion
17. Postconcussion syndrome
18. The role of neuropsychologists in concussion evaluation and management
19. Return to play following sports-related concussion
20. Return to learn
21. Neuroimaging of brain trauma in sports
22. Blood and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers
23. Measuring head impacts: accelerometers and other sensors
24. Subconcussive trauma
25. The evolving landscape of policies, rules, and law in sport-related concussion
26. The modern landscape of sport-related concussion research: key achievements and future directions

SECTION III. Neurodegeneration and other long-term consequences of concussion and
repetitive head impacts
27. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: clinical presentation and in vivo diagnosis
28. The neuropathology of chronic traumatic encephalopathy
29. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: neuroimaging biomarkers
30. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: fluid biomarkers

SECTION IV. Cervical spinal cord injuries
31. Biomechanics and common mechanisms of injury of the cervical spine
32. Cervical spine trauma evaluation
33. Acute management of cervical spine trauma
34. Cervical spine trauma: prevention strategies
35. Classification in para sport for athletes following cervical spine trauma

SECTION V. Peripheral nerve injuries
36. Peripheral nerve injury in sport: an overview
37. Neuromuscular adaptations in shoulder function and dysfunction
38. Common peripheral nerve injuries in sport: diagnosis and management

SECTION VI. Pain
39. Sport-related injury and pain classification
40. Pain management in sport: therapeutic injections

SECTION VII. Special neurologic considerations in sport
41. Athletes with neurologic disease
42. Neurologic benefits of sports and exercise
43. Future directions