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Researchers studying the effects on concussions on athletes hope the new film Concussion will raise awareness about the effects of head trauma on the brain.

Here you will find articles about information on the latest research about the long - term effects of concussion on an athlete's cognitive function, articles on whether the new state concussion safety laws are increasing concussion safety, advice on the academic accomodations concussed student - athletes often need when they return to the classroom, and about the latest in concussion research.

This course highlights the impact of sports - related concussion on athletes, teaches how to recognize a suspected concussion, and provides protocols to manage a suspected concussion with steps to help players return to play safely after a concussion.

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On average, athletic trainers report 5 - 6 percent of athletes suffer a concussion each year.

However, when athletes were educated on what a concussion is defined as, about 45 percent of them admit to having one in the past year.

The Mobb's 33 - man roster (twice the typical number for teams) also varies year to year: with injury (concussions and ankle injuries are most common, though every game I attend has at least one athlete on crutches), retirement, defections to other teams, and recruitments of formerly hated rivals.

(2) On a yearly basis, a concussion and head injury information sheet shall be signed and returned by the athlete and the athlete's parent or guardian before the athlete's initiating practice or competition.

Moser brings to the subject matter a unique background: As a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student - athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recovery.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

Our mission now, as it was in 2000, is to do everything we can to minimize the short - and long - term risks that concussions, if not properly managed, pose to athlete, and to provide objective and practical concussion information to parents, coaches, and athletic trainers that reflects the latest consensus of medical experts and advances in research and technology on best concussion safety practices, all in the direct, concise, easy - to - read, practical format that has always been MomsTeam's hallmark.

One of the biggest hurdles to appropriate clinical management of sports concussion is identifying athletes for an initial assessment on the sports sideline.

My reaction was one of sadness, frustration, and worry: sadness that a young athlete simply assumed that he had CTE as a result of a single concussion and considered it to be a death sentence; frustration that, despite concerted efforts by researchers and clinicians, along with some in the media, to set the record straight on CTE, the prevailing media narrative continues to be that concussions or repetitive subconcussive blows «cause» chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), that CTE «causes» former athletes to commit suicide, and that such causal links are proven scientific fact (they're not); and, finally, worry: concern about the consequences of the football = CTE and CTE = suicide memes in the real world.

The well - publicized lawsuits by former players against the N.F.L., the suicide of Junior Seau, a «Chicken Little - sky is falling» mentality by some prominent concussion experts and former athletes, some of whom suggest that the sport is simply too dangerous to be played at all at the youth level, and continuing research on the short - and long - term effects of concussion on cognitive function and brain health, have created a pretty toxic environment for the sport.

The Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport of the 3rd International Conference on Concussion in Sport in 2008 [1] included a Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 2 (SCAT2)[2] for standardized assessment by medical and health professionals (team physicians, certified athletic trainers, neuropsychologists) of sports concussion in athletes ages 10 years Concussion in Sport of the 3rd International Conference on Concussion in Sport in 2008 [1] included a Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 2 (SCAT2)[2] for standardized assessment by medical and health professionals (team physicians, certified athletic trainers, neuropsychologists) of sports concussion in athletes ages 10 years Concussion in Sport in 2008 [1] included a Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 2 (SCAT2)[2] for standardized assessment by medical and health professionals (team physicians, certified athletic trainers, neuropsychologists) of sports concussion in athletes ages 10 years Concussion Assessment Tool 2 (SCAT2)[2] for standardized assessment by medical and health professionals (team physicians, certified athletic trainers, neuropsychologists) of sports concussion in athletes ages 10 years concussion in athletes ages 10 years and older.

She pointed to one patient, a high school athlete, who had clearly recovered from his concussion - to the point that he was performing in the superior range on neuropsychological testing and getting As in school - who was nevertheless so worried, anxious, and paranoid about hurting his head again that he thought he'd suffered another concussion when he happened to turn his head quickly from side to side!

As someone who is usually in the position of moderating a discussion of concussions or giving a keynote address at a conference or convention on how to keep young athletes safe, and given the deep knowledge I have on the subject as a result of MomsTEAM's work as the «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, I have to admit I found myself in the somewhat unique position of knowing nearly as much about concussions as some of the presenters.

Educating parents, players, coaches, and health care professionals on the signs and symptoms of concussion and the long - term health risks if concussions are not identified early and treated conservatively, and the importance of creating an environment in which athletes feel safe in reporting concussion symptoms;

«There may be certain messages that are more likely to encourage athletes to report concussive symptoms, such as focusing on short - term outcomes (concussions affect one's ability to play well) rather than long - term outcomes (playing with a concussion can cause brain damage).

«Since my own son had just sustained a concussion and I was aware that there is a gap in the state laws that protect our youth athletes, I was motivated to draft the bylaw,» Beltz - Jacobson told me in an interview, a bylaw which she modeled on the Brookline bylaw with her own enhancements.

In a position statement on the management of sport - related concussion published in the September 2004 issue of The Journal of Athletic Training, the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) refused to endorse any of the three approaches to concussion management, but recommended that certified athletic trainers and team physicians, at the very least, «agree on a philosophy for managing sport - related concussions before the start of the athletic season,» and, after deciding on an approach, «be consistent in its use regardless of the athlete, sport, or circumstances surrounding the injury.»

[1 - 9] As a 2013 research paper [7] and a number of other recent studies [12 - 15] show, education alone (or at least that which focuses on educating athletes about the signs and symptoms of concussion and not changing attitudes about reporting behavior) does not appear capable of solving the problem, because the reasons for under - reporting are largely cultural, [2,3,9,10, 12 - 15] leading the paper's author to conclude that «other approaches might be needed to identify injured athletes.»

As a result, only time will tell whether they will fulfill the promise that many in the concussion community see them as having, although I, for one, think they will eventually revolutionize the way in which athletes are identified for remove - from - play screening on the sports sideline, among other uses, and, within five years, are likely to be standard equipment for all contact and collision sports.

A lengthy, well - researched, and powerful article in the Spring 2015 issue of the NCAA's Champion magazine, not only reports the belief of many top concussion experts that the media narrative about sports - related concussion trace has been dominated by media reports on the work of Dr. Ann McKee, which was the centerpiece of PBS Frontline's League of Denial, but Dr. McKee's, however belated, mea culpa that «There's no question [that her autopsies finding evidence of CTE in the brains of most of the former athletes were] a very biased study,» that they involved «a certain level of... sensationalism», that there were «times when it's overblown» and went «a little too far.»

Because the Maddocks questions can be asked by anyone, they are valuable on sports sidelines where no health care professional trained in performing a full sideline screening for concussion, such as doctor or certified athletic trainer, is present, as is often the case in contact and collision sports involving younger athletes.

Some also believe that one of the ways to combat the problem of under - reporting may be to avoid relying so much on athletes to honestly self - report, or on game officials and / or sideline observers to call for a concussion assessment, but to instead employ technology to get around the problem altogether through

The problem, argues Bauman, is that too many media stories focus on professional athletes, CTE, and poor outcomes of prolonged concussion (or sports exposure to repetitive head trauma), and [there are] too few stories about athletes who make full recoveries and improve (even after years of concussion symptoms).

The critical point to always keep in mind about impact sensors is that they are just another tool in the concussion toolbox or, put another way, another set of eyes, with which to identify athletes who (a) may have sustained impacts of sufficient magnitude that (b) may have resulted in some cases in concussions, so that they (c) may be monitored for signs of concussion, or (d) may be asked to undergo a balance, vision, and / or neurocognitive screen / assessment on the sideline or in the locker room, the results of which (e) may suggest a removal from play for the remainder of the game and referral to a concussion specialist for formal evaluation away from the sports sideline, which evaluation (f) may result in a clinical diagnosis of concussion.

A straightforward, elegantly written, concise, and well - organized 215 pages, Back in the Game stands out in a crowded field, not just as a primer on concussions for a parent, coach, or athletes, but for its incisive and often pointed criticism of the way our national conversation about concussions and the long - term effects of playing contact and collision sports has been shaped - some would say warped - by a media that too often eschews fact - based reporting in favor of sensationalism and fear - mongering.

Echlin's comments are echoed in the findings of a 2013 quantitative study focusing on what drives the attitudes of high school athletes [1] towards reporting concussions («attitude study»), which found that coaches and teammates are the strongest influences on an athlete's intention to report concussion.

Because impact sensors are not diagnostic, a team equipping its players with sensors must be careful not to rely on the data transmitted by the sensors, or the triggering of an alert or alarm, as in any way determinative of whether an athlete has or has not suffered a concussion.

Question: How can an athletic trainer on the sideline keep his or her eyes on athletes on the field to watch for signs of concussion if the AT has to be constantly monitoring the data coming from the sensors?

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

Impact sensors don't depend solely on athletes to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms, or on game officials or sideline personnel to observe signs of concussion.

One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

Parents and coaches will benefit from reduced reliance on honest self - reporting of concussion symptoms by athletes and of the less - than - perfect observational skills of sideline management in spotting signs of concussion;

According to a number of recent studies [1,2,5,13,18], while the culture of sport (including influences from professional and other athletes), as well as the media and other outside sources play a role in the decision of student - athletes to report experiencing concussion symptoms, it is coaches and teammates, along with parents, who have the strongest influence on the decision to report a concussion during sport participation, with coaches being one of the primary barriers to increased self - reporting by athletes of concussive symptoms.

An important, and well - established, part of an assessment for concussion on the sports sideline under the most recent concussion guidelines [1,2] is to test an athlete's orientation to time and place by asking the so - called «Maddocks questions.»

Even today, with all the attention on concussions, Safe Kids Worldwide found that half of all coaches surveyed believe there is an acceptable amount of head contact (i.e., getting their bell rung, seeing stars) young athletes can receive without potentially causing a serious brain injury (fact is, there isn't).

My experience with the Newcastle football team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that, as long as impact sensors are strictly used for the limited purpose of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not as the sole determining factor in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained in recognizing the signs of concussion and in conducting a sideline screening for concussion using one or more sideline assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified athletic trainer and / or team physician), and long as data on the number, force, and direction of impacts is only made available for use by coaches and athletic trainers in a position to use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate use by those, such as parents, who are not in a position to make intelligent use of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and as a tool to minimize repetitive head impacts.

I wanted to ask them for their reaction to a recent survey of college athletes in contact and collision sports at the University of Pennsylvania which found that, despite being educated about the dangers of continuing to play with concussion symptoms, most are still very reluctant to report symptoms because they want to stay in the game, and to comment on reports that the N.F.L. players» union was against putting sensors in helmets that would alert the sideline to hits of a sufficient magnitude to cause concussion, which may be the technological solution (or, in football parlance «end - around») to the chronic under - reporting problem.

When the SCAT2 was issued, superseding the original SCAT published in 2005, the authors recommended continued reliance on the SAC until prospective studies could be conducted to assess the SCAT2's sensitivity (how good the test is in identifying athletes with concussion; for example, a test which is very sensitive will have few false negatives, rarely missing those later found to have concussion) and specificity (a test with high specificity will have few false positives, rarely mis - classifying people without concussion as having concussion).

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 21-4-703 (2011) prohibits an athletic coach or trainer from allowing a student athlete to participate in a school athletic event on the same day that the athlete (1) exhibits signs, symptoms or behaviors consistent with a concussion or head injury after a coach, trainer, school official or student reports, observers or suspects that they have sustained a concussion or other head injury, or (2) has been diagnosed with a concussion or other heConcussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 21-4-703 (2011) prohibits an athletic coach or trainer from allowing a student athlete to participate in a school athletic event on the same day that the athlete (1) exhibits signs, symptoms or behaviors consistent with a concussion or head injury after a coach, trainer, school official or student reports, observers or suspects that they have sustained a concussion or other head injury, or (2) has been diagnosed with a concussion or other heconcussion or head injury after a coach, trainer, school official or student reports, observers or suspects that they have sustained a concussion or other head injury, or (2) has been diagnosed with a concussion or other heconcussion or other head injury, or (2) has been diagnosed with a concussion or other heconcussion or other head injury.

The student athlete may return to play if, as a result of evaluating the student athlete on site, the athletic trainer, physician, physician assistant or nurse practitioner determines that they do not have any signs or symptoms of a concussion or brain injury.

Youth athletes and their parents must annually review and return information on concussion and head injury prior to their participation in practice or competition.

The policies must (1) Require the student athlete and their parent or guardian to annually review and sign information on concussions, (2) Require that a student athlete suspected by their coach, athletic trainer or team physician of sustaining a concussion or brain injury in a practice or game be removed from the activity at that time.

(1) Education of students, student athletes, parents, sports officials, school faculty and staff, and school administrators on the signs and symptoms of a concussion and what to do if someone demonstrates any of them.

Although you can also look at football helmet ratings, the NOCSAE cautions «against an over-reliance on any individual data point, rating or measurement which could lead to inaccurate conclusions or even a false sense of security that one helmet brand or model guarantees a measurably higher level of concussion protection than another for a particular athlete.»

Code 167.775 requires any statewide athletic organization with public school membership to publish an annual report relating to the impact of concussions and head injuries on student athletes.

Information on the school board's concussion and head injury policy must be a part of any written instrument that a school district requires a student athlete and his or her parents or guardian to sign before participating in practice or interscholastic competition.

It is up to parents, whether it be individually or as members of a booster club, «Friends of Football,» or PTA, to raise money to (a) fund the hiring of a certified athletic trainer (who, as we always say, should be the first hire after the head football coach); (b) consider equipping players with impact sensors (whether in or on helmets, in mouth guards, skullcaps, earbuds, or chinstraps); (c) purchase concussion education videos (which a new study shows players want and which they remember better); (d) to bring in speakers, including former athletes, to speak about concussion (another effective way to impress on young athletes the dangers of concussion); and (e) to pay for instructors to teach about proper tackling and neck strengthening;