Returning to sports after frontal sinus fracture

Abstract

There is lacking literature on return to sports following a frontal sinus fracture. Poor management of such injury could lead to chronic headache, sinusitis, development of mucocele and meningitis. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first case report that describes the concise and successful return to play (RTP) in an athlete who suffered from a frontal sinus fracture with a concussion, using the latest guideline, Sport Concussion Office Assessment Tool 6. This is a case of a hockey player who had a direct blow to the head and sustained an anterior wall frontal sinus fracture, confirmed by a computed tomography scan. The difference in strategy of RTP in this condition, from a typical concussion, is to allow fracture healing to take place. Our article described in detail how such athlete is managed and what complication should be observed in such athletes.