A-03 Physical Therapy Compared to a Home Exercise Program for Protracted Pediatric Sport-Related Concussion Rehabilitation

Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the recovery time in days between protracted (greater than or equal 28 since injury) patients who were prescribed physical therapy and those a home exercise program. We hypothesized that would be associated with shorter times relative Methods: 159 participants (aged 8–18) drawn from an ongoing study. This retrospective cohort design sports-related concussion presented outpatient specialty clinic 2018 2021, data collected electronic medical records. Both (PPT) program (HEP) provided vestibular/ocular motor rehabilitation exercises completed at three per day. PPT must have least sessions, they excluded Multi-variable zero-truncated negative binomial regressions used evaluate associations groups. Results: Among 48 (30.2%) 111 (69.8%) HEP participants, majority female (57.9%), age 15.3 ± 1.4 14.2 2.8 (HEP), median 6.0 (IQR = 3.0–27.0; PPT) 7.0 3.0–23.0; HEP). After adjusting for demographic (age, sex) clinical measures (concussion history, convergence, VOMS score, clinic), additional 1.21 (95% CI: 1.06, 1.39) HEP. Conclusions: unexpectedly found not Future research should explore hypothesis while aiming effect versus using randomized design.