PICO Question: Does adding cervical spine and vestibular rehabilitation have a faster recovery time for an 18-year-old male who plays football than a conservative sports related concussion intervention?
Databases Searched and Key Words: PubMed Search: Concussion AND sporting injuries AND vestibular rehabilitation AND sports physical therapy
Question Type: Therapy Intervention
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With being a randomized control trial, there was very little bias that went on during this study. Also, randomized control trials are best suited to determine if interventions are beneficial or harmful to subjects, which means that this study is best suited to determine if adding vestibular and cervical spine rehabilitation can be beneficial to a patient. The strengths in this study are that all individuals were randomly put into groups. This study was a double blinded study, which means that both the experimenters and the participants were blinded to the study, which strengthens the validity of the test. A possible weakness in this study is that the experimenter couldn’t define if cervical spine or vestibular rehabilitation is more crucial in the return to sports from a concussion. Two more groups could have been made with each group receiving either vestibular or cervical spine rehabilitation. A two-way ANOVA test could be used to determine if there is an interaction effect between the two treatments to increase the return to sport for the athlete. Threats to risk or benefits, internal, and external validity were not discussed in this