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This new information doesn't totally throw out the old information- it's good that recommendations evolve with new research. Concussions and concussion recovery should be taken very seriously. Mental rest is still important, the study is just suggesting that gentle exercise (not returning to sport, more along the line of going for walks) has benefits.
Missed my bronze moves test.
I guess, by the new standards, you didn't have to, since your moves test wouldn't have involved jumping, and I assume you wouldn't have fallen during a moves test. Unless, of course, your symptoms were serious enough to affect your sense of balance. When it comes right down to it, easy skating should be perfect - a gentle low impact physical activity. Maybe it should be prescribed... Though not, I think, for beginning skaters, who do fall a lot anyway, sometimes without much control. Also not for kids and certain others who wouldn't be able to restrain themselves from jumping, and not for hockey players in general, who are universally quite unable to be easy on their bodies.
I guess, by the new standards, you didn't have to, since your moves test wouldn't have involved jumping, and I assume you wouldn't have fallen during a moves test.
Wow... I guess I've never had a concussion that bad.