Direct prospective evidence that primitive-reflex expression changes after sport-related concussion (SRC) is currently very limited. This Perspective therefore proposes a deliberately restricted context of use: standardized primitive-reflex profiling as an experimental, low-cost candidate behavioral state marker to be tested within athletes across recovery, not as an established diagnostic biomarker or a...
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Discussion
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No actionable change for audiologists; this is a conceptual framework article in concussion medicine with no direct audiology or hearing clinical implications at this stage.
If validated, primitive-reflex profiling could add an objective behavioural marker to concussion assessment protocols, which has downstream relevance for audiology given the overlap between concussion and auditory processing disorders.
- 01Perspective article proposes primitive-reflex profiling as a behavioural state marker after sport-related concussion.
- 02Framework is athlete-centred and intended for a restricted testing context.
- 03Primitive reflexes are automatic movements normally suppressed in adults but re-emerging after brain injury.
- 04No empirical data are presented; this is a theoretical framework requiring prospective testing.
- 05Relevance to audiology is indirect via the concussion–auditory processing disorder overlap.
Primitive-reflex profiling can serve as a candidate behavioural state marker following sport-related concussion.
opinionunclear- PMID
- 42793393
- DOI
- 10.3390/brainsci16090968.
- Journal
- Brain Sciences
- Publication type
- editorial
- Evidence level
- 5
- Population
- Athletes with sport-related concussion (conceptual/theoretical framework, no empirical sample)
- Intervention
- Primitive-reflex profiling as a behavioural state marker
Primary outcomes
Feasibility and rationale for primitive-reflex profiling as a concussion recovery marker