#concussion recovery is 21 days

🤔Did you know ankle sprains and concussions both have a recovery time of around 3 weeks?

For some reason, though, we're all more comfortable with acknowledging and rehabbing an ankle injury over a brain injury.🤦‍♂️

📺When ESPN hears about an ankle sprain, the banner at the bottom goes, "Jake from State Farm suffered an ankle sprain. Out 3 weeks." Easy. No questions.

📺When ESPN hears about a concussion, the banner at the bottom goes, "Jake from State Farm in the concussion protocol. Questionable for Sunday."

WHAT?!🤯

📃The new Amsterdam concussion consensus reports that most sport-related concussions take ~20 days (up to 30) for a complete return to play.

☝️And the literature also shows that folks who don't seek/don't receive proper assessment and treatment for their concussion have a ~30% chance of having concussion symptoms last longer than 4-8 weeks.

Let's treat our brains AT LEAST as well as we treat our ankles, eh?🤙🧠

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[rapscull]

Can you post the studies for this recovery time? I wonder if this changes in young athletes or old non active patients.

[etherialle]

3rd concussion here. Hit my head no symptoms til 12 days later and on week two. Help me

[inorinami]

What does it mean if it’s way longer than 21 days?

[jonass]

21 days.. while i am on 9 years and still not getting better 😢