One of the odder #COVID19 studies I've seen. The study tracked 72,522 high school athletes, some had prior infections and others didn't. “Athletes with recent COVID-19 had a threefold higher rate of concussion... This may be related to ongoing COVID-19 sequelae or deconditioning.”
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2023/02/07/bjsports-2022-106436
There's been anecdotal hints about this in amateur and professional sports over the last couple of years. One of the ones that made the news was a player on the Colorado Avalanche who had a documented history of a couple of prior concussions, had COVID(I want to say in 2020) and then took what did not appear to be a particularly hard or direct hit to the head and ended up spending months recovering. The Avalanche medial team said at the time that they noticed something to the effect of "COVID attacks where you're weakest" and they weren't sure he was going to make it back.
https://twitter.com/peter_baugh/status/1460972240824983564?lang=eu
https://www.markerzone.com/news/index.php?no=65173&s=8
Thankfully he did, but, I think it's absolutely something that needs more attention(as if there weren't a million of those these days).
This study's interesting because it's attempting to put numbers to something I've heard very similar stories about from local high school athletes. Concussions are tricky to begin with and this just adds a layer of complexity on top.
