Abstract
To the Editor.— The Committee on Children with Handicaps and the Committee on Sports Medicine of the American Academy of Pediatrics are to be congratulated for their concise statement on Sports and the Child with Epilepsy.1 There is little doubt that the child whose epilepsy is under reasonable control and who desires to participate in sports, whether involving body contact or not, should be allowed to do so. Although it is logical to assume that repetitive head trauma—as might possibly occur in contact or collision sports—could not help but have a deleterious effect on the frequency of seizures in the epileptic child, fortunately, no clinical or statistical proof that this is true has ever been published.
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