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Coaches are required to take a 30 - minute online course and print a certificate, and parents and athletes are given fact sheets on concussions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Here are the figures on concussions from Dr. Dawn Comstock's National High School Sports - Related Injury Surveillance Study.

Not exact matches

American football continues to face many health and injury concerns, which range from heat exhaustion during summer workouts to concussions and injuries on the practice field and in games.

Concussions have become a talking point in the game after several occurrences on the pitch, and numerous warnings from medical professionals.

after suffering from concussion, and Wenger could have a real defensive crisis on his hands — hardly the best time when we are about to face the second - highest scorers in the Premier League with 85 goals.

The point guard told the team he was suffering from a headache after the team's shootaround on Thursday and then failed concussion tests.

Lakers forward Metta World Peace offered an apology to James Harden for a hard elbow to the neck and head that got World Peace ejected from the Lakers» 114 - 106 win over the Thunder on Sunday and knocked Harden out of the game with concussion - like symptoms, but labeled his action in the first half «unintentional.»

Dale Earnhardt Jr. met with the NASCAR media on Friday morning at Martinsville Speedway, marking his first interview since announcing he would miss races at Charlotte and Kansas while recovering from concussions.

Win at all costs - Quarterback, Denard Robinson, who has the weight of school on his shoulders, was pulled from the Illinois game by head coach Rich Rodriguez because of possible concussion symptoms.

The NFL is under all kinds of scrutiny in recent times, ranging from concussions to player safety on the field.

A lot of concussions results from bouncing on the ground.

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Arsenal have no fresh injury concerns apart from the concussion of Mikel Arteta at Liverpool on Saturday, who appears to have recovered but may be kept off the team as a precaution.

Danny Rose will miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgery on his knee while Kyle Walker has a minor ankle problem and Kieran Trippier is recovering from concussion.

The MomsTEAM staff and I are still digging into the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council's three - hundred - some - odd page report on sports - related concussions in youth sports, [1] but one thing jumped out at me at my first pass: When I did a search in the report for a discussion of impact monitoring devices (a / k / a hit sensors), I found only one brief mention of sensors in the committee's recommendation that the Centers for Disease Control fund large scale data collection efforts for research purposes, including data from impact sensors.

How well they recover depends a lot on how quickly their concussion is identified so they can be removed from practice or game action.

How quickly they recover may depend on how soon after injury - if at all - their concussion is identified so they can be removed from practice or game action.

In reading reports about how the concussion suffered by San Francisco 49er Alex Smith was handled, or, in the view of many, including Wise, mishandled, I was particularly struck by remarks attributed to Coach Jim Harbaugh as to why he allowed his quarterback Alex Smith to take six more snaps (ending, amazingly, in a touchdown pass) after admitting that he was experiencing blurred vision from a head - rattling hit on a quarterback sneak.

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.

Joining me at the screening and a post-screening reception at the Ritz - Carlton were concussion experts and advocates from around the nation, Jeanne Marie Laskas, author of the 2009 GQ article on which the movie is based and the critically - acclaimed book, Concussion (pictured to my right below), and a large contingent of former NFL players (including Joey LaRoque (l) and Caleb Hanieconcussion experts and advocates from around the nation, Jeanne Marie Laskas, author of the 2009 GQ article on which the movie is based and the critically - acclaimed book, Concussion (pictured to my right below), and a large contingent of former NFL players (including Joey LaRoque (l) and Caleb HanieConcussion (pictured to my right below), and a large contingent of former NFL players (including Joey LaRoque (l) and Caleb Hanie (r)-RRB-.

It was moderated by ESPN's Tom Farrey and, in the phrase made famous by the movie Casablanca, rounded up all the usual suspects on concussion safety and football, including MomsTEAM concussion expert emeritus Dr. Bob Cantu, USA Football Executive Director Scott Hallenbeck, and NFL Player Association President DeMaurice Smith, among other luminaries from the world of football and journalism.

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!

Fortunately, as result of my first - hand experience, working closely the past four football seasons (on many football fields) with six different sensor manufacturers, the high school football program in Newcastle, and, most recently, the youth football program in Grand Prairie, TX, and from covering the concussion beat, along with a team of experts and staff journalists, for the past fifteen years, I believe MomsTEAM and I are in a unique position to explain just what impact sensors are all about.

Baseline pre-injury and post-injury neuropsychological or neurocognitive testing is now commonplace at the professional and collegiate level, and has become more and more common at the high school level as well, with a recent study showing computerized neuropsychological testing being used to assess fully 41.2 % of concussions at schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff in the 2009 - 2010 year, [2] an increase of 15.5 % from the 25.7 % of concussions in which such testing was used in assessing concussions during the 2008 - 2009 school year.

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.

Reviewing data on concussion - related emergency department (ED) visits for patients between the ages of 8 and 19 years from 1997 to 2007, researchers found that:

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.

If you are involved in a private youth sports program which plays on publicly - owned fields, diamonds, rinks, or courts, or are in local government, you have probably been hearing a lot lately about what is being dubbed the «power of the permit»: the authority municipalities and towns around the country are using to condition use of their athletic facilities by private programs on compliance with state concussion safety laws from which they would otherwise be exempt, or, in an increasing number of instances, to fill gaps in their state's law.

The emerging model of sport concussion assessment now involves the use of brief screening tools to evaluate post-concussion signs and symptoms on the sideline immediately after a concussion and neuropsychological testing to track recovery further out from the time of injury.

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?

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.

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.

This takes a great toll on the mental health of a patient recovering from a prolonged concussion leading to increased anxiety and depression, and even thoughts of suicide.»

Maine statute directed the committee to develop this model policy based on the current research and best practice guidelines from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other states» concussion management documents.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB773 (2013) authorizes the state department of education to use up to $ 1 million from its General Improvement Fund on a pilot project on concussion mConcussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB773 (2013) authorizes the state department of education to use up to $ 1 million from its General Improvement Fund on a pilot project on concussion mconcussion management.

On a subsequent day, the student may return to play only if they have been evaluated and received written clearance from a licensed health care provider trained in the evaluation and management of concussions and head injuries.

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 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.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

He has also authored several chapters in scholarly texts on subjects ranging from pediatric concussion to brain tumors in children.

In June 2012, Pop Warner - acting on the advice of its Medical Advisory Board and input from its regional and local administrators and coaches, and in light of developing concussion research

In 2008, I commented that «Too many young athletes — from 9 - year old cheerleaders to star middies on high school Lacrosse teams — are still failing to self - report their symptoms to the coach, sideline medical staff, their friends or even their parents, forcing clinicians to try to manage concussions somewhat in the dark.»

On July 28, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law protecting elementary to high school students from the potential severe effects of concussions.

In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport, or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic injury or death from sudden impact syndrome or the serious, life - altering consequences of multiple concussions.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

On the one hand, there appears to be a growing body of research suggesting that playing contact or collision sports for a long period of time likely has, at least for some unknown percentage of athletes, serious adverse health consequences, not just from concussions but from the cumulative effect of sub-concussive blows to the head, blows which athletes in youth football, lacrosse, and, until recently, hockey, suffer on an almost constant basis in both games and practiceOn the one hand, there appears to be a growing body of research suggesting that playing contact or collision sports for a long period of time likely has, at least for some unknown percentage of athletes, serious adverse health consequences, not just from concussions but from the cumulative effect of sub-concussive blows to the head, blows which athletes in youth football, lacrosse, and, until recently, hockey, suffer on an almost constant basis in both games and practiceon an almost constant basis in both games and practices.

To provide some insight on female concussions, we launched a research study in October 2013, which focused on female athletes from all sports, and their past and present experiences with concussions.