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Study said a vacation for a week of each mental and physical activity, including watching TV and talking the telephone and visit friends linked to improved mental function and reduce symptoms in people with a concussion.According to a report in the journal Pediatrics that full week of rest had benefits for months even after the injury.Rosemary said Moser, director of the Center sports concussions in New Jersey and great authors of the study said, "This is really important because we often see patients suffering from post-concussion syndrome for months afterward."Include syndrome or symptoms of post-concussion headaches or mental disorder or fatigue, difficulty concentrating or sleeping, among other symptoms.Moser said he usually Comfort is the main treatment but not systematic or comprehensive and varies according to how it determines Different practitioners this convenience. The study aimed to test the results of extensive comfort.And ordered a Moser 49 patients with secondary schools and universities rest for a full week. The recommendation was strict, but which he can not go to school or work or talk on the telephone or practices of physical exercise or watching television or playing social activities or work on the computer.And 14 of the patients began to rest during the week they were hurt. And 22 others began to rest within a month of injury, concussion and 13 patients a week began comfort among month and seven months after the injury a concussion.At the beginning of the study, all patients suffering from symptoms related to a concussion, the brain, such as headaches and difficulty concentrating, but all of them felt better after a week of rest.And saw athletes who started comfort within a week of injury بالارتجاج symptoms back from 22 points to seven points on a scale consisting of 132 points. And saw people who started to rest after more than a month symptoms down from 28 to eight points.Moser said, "All these symptoms improved dramatically. Qualitative feel better."And William Maowayas said a professor at the University of Calgary and a doctor specializing in sports injuries and who was not involved in the study, said the study "provides some evidence that strengthen the recommendation already exist."But he said it was not clear whether the rest must be comprehensive, as the study in order to achieve the benefits.

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