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YouthSportParent's expert, Dr. Robert Cantu, offers the following advice to parents on concussion management and evaluation:

The alleged lack of scientific studies and the amount of clinical judgment involved in concussion management, and the lack of uananimity, either about grading the severity of concussions or in return to play guidelines, while it complicates our efforts to educate parents on concussions, should not be used as an excuse to do nothing.

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(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.

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.

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;

Produced and directed by Boston - based visionary youth sports parenting expert and author, Brooke de Lench, and drawing both on her experience as a parent of a concussed high school football and lacrosse player and as the founder and publisher of MomsTEAM.com, the acknowledged «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, «THE SMARTEST TEAM» documents how de Lench worked with a high school in Newcastle, Oklahoma to address the challenges concussions pose in football.

Second, like Dr. Covassin, she noted that it was based on a parent report of concussion symptoms, with about half of the reported cases never diagnosed by a medical professional.

«Clinicians, parents, and coaches should make concussion education and awareness a priority, and address factors to provide a more optimal concussion - reporting environment,» says Johna Register - Mihalik, Ph.D, LAT, ATC, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and lead author of the one of the recent studies on underreporting.

installed inside or on the outside of a player's helmet, embedded in a mouth guard, helmet chin strap, skull cap, head band, or skin patch worn behind the ear, for instance), all are essentially designed to do the same thing: alert coaches, athletic trainers, team doctors, other sideline personnel and / or parents about high - risk single and multiple head impacts in order to improve the rate at which concussions are identified.

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.

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.

For the most comprehensive concussion information for sports parents on the Web, visit the MomsTEAM youth sports concussion safety center.

The Pennsylvania Departments of Public Health and Education must develop and post on their websites guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students, parents, and coaches about concussions, the nature and risk of concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI), including the risks of continuing to play or practice after a concussion or TBI.

Students participating or desiring to participate in an athletic activity and their parent or guardian must sign and return an acknowledgement of and receipt and review of a concussion and traumatic brain injury information sheet on an annual basis.

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.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB 200 (2011) requires the Department of Health and the Department of Education to develop and post on their website guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students participating in or desiring to participate in an athletic activity, their parents and coaches, about the nature and risk of concussion and traumatic braConcussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB 200 (2011) requires the Department of Health and the Department of Education to develop and post on their website guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students participating in or desiring to participate in an athletic activity, their parents and coaches, about the nature and risk of concussion and traumatic braconcussion and traumatic brain injury.

(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.

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.

This program is designed to provide you with valuable information on concussions and add to what coaches, parents and administrators should know regarding concussion safety.

A program offered free to any parent and coach to provide valuable information on concussions and add to what coaches, parents and administrators should know regarding concussion safety.

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.

I would also like to think that MomsTEAM's continued efforts to educate parents about concussion risk management and our PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer,» which aired on over 300 stations last fall and which will be broadcast on almost all 387 stations in the fall of 2014, has played a role in increasing awareness.

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;

Ultimately, our kids have to rely on their parents to make sure they are doing everything they can to minimize injuries by knowing the risks, and by making sure that, if and when they do suffer a sports injury, such as concussion, they receive appropriate treatment.

Not only is it based on the latest thinking in the rapidly evolving field of concussion evaluation and management and make concussion terminology easy to understand, but, in explaining the short - term and long - term effects of concussion and the concussion management process, Dr. Meehan arms sports parents with all the information they need in making informed choices about treatment and when it is safe for their child to return to the playing field.

I again recommended that USA Football do more than it was doing on concussion safety, such as by training coaches to teach youth football players Coach Bobby Hosea's «Heads Up» tackling and doing more concussion education of coaches, parents, and players.

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.»

It is up to parents to make sure that football programs adopt best practices based on the latest medical research and technological advances in the identification and treatment of concussions;

In the fall of 2012, the N.F.L. invited me to its New York City headquarters to present a proposal to the league on ways that I thought MomsTEAM could help them preserve and strengthen the sport of youth football, in part by educating parents, and especially safety - conscious moms, about the dangers of concussions and ways in which the risk of concussion could be reduced.

It seems increasingly obvious that professional football players and the owners for whom they butt heads every Sunday and Monday (and occasional Thursdays and Saturdays) for money simply can't be counted on to set the right example for the tens of thousands of youth and high school football players who suffer concussions every season, far too many of which, like Morey's, never get reported to the coach, the athletic trainer (if there is one), or even their teammates, friends or parents.

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.

Three - year collaborations with the Ontario Soccer Association (OSA) and Toronto Soccer Association (TSA) are also underway, focusing on concussion education, strategies, and awareness campaigns to align players, parents, coaches and trainers on the most up - to - date evidence and resources for concussion prevention, identification and management.

Many schools require student athletes and their parents to watch a video on concussions or to sign a release stating that you were supplied with background information on concussion injuries, how to avoid them, and how to treat them.

Coaches and parents obtaining free training on concussion awareness and / or bullying prevention for the first time

To provide athletic trainers, physicians, other medical professionals, parents and coaches with recommendations based on these latest studies, the National Athletic Trainers» Association (NATA) has developed a set of guidelines to prevent and manage sport - related concussion and improve decisions about whether an athlete should or should not return to play after experiencing head trauma.

As the pioneer in concussion education for sports parents, MomsTeam and I are thrilled to have Impakt on our team as we continue to dedicate our efforts to do everything possible to keep the kids of America playing sports as safe as science, technology and equipment make possible.»

From where I sit, as a parent and editor of a site for parents with children in sports, I believe that the NFL has thus far been a little too slow to get on the concussion bandwagon and to set the right example for the parents and children of this country.

Since 2009, the league, to its credit, has also been lobbying hard in favor of laws - now in place in 31 states and the District of Columbia, and with more sure to follow this year - requiring concussion education of parents and athletes, banning same - day return - to - play after a suspected concussion, and requiring medical clearance before a concussed athlete is allowed back on the playing field, diamond or ice.

Once attached to a player's helmet (a hockey version is available now, versions for football, lacrosse, and ski and snowboard helmets will be introduced in 2012) The ShockboxTM sensor measures the G - Force of a hit to the helmet from any direction, and then sends the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to the athletic trainer, coach or parent's smart phone to alert them when the athlete suffers a traumatic head impact that may be concussive so they can be removed from the game or practice for evaluation on the sideline using standard concussion assessment tools, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Deconcussion assessment tools, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - DeConcussion, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - DeConcussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Devick test.

NAYS Parent members receive the most up - to - date information on topics like child protection, concussion awareness, overuse injuries and much more.

To that I say parents and coaches don't have to wait until these states catch up before they seek out concussion training on their own.

While focusing on the latest scientific and evidence based research of concussion education, prevention and management, «Concussion Wise ™» is designed to meet the educational needs of athletic trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care providers throughout tconcussion education, prevention and management, «Concussion Wise ™» is designed to meet the educational needs of athletic trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care providers throughout tConcussion Wise ™» is designed to meet the educational needs of athletic trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care providers throughout the nation.

The articles, «The Effect of Coach Education on Reporting of Concussions Among High School Athletes After Passage of a Concussion Law» and «Implementation of Concussion Legislation and Extent of Concussion education for Athletes, Parents, and Coaches in Washington State,» are available online through the journal: http://ajs.sagepub.com/.

And along with those things as youth sport parents, we need to know how best we can parent on the sidelines, or prepared on the car ride home, or the next morning after a blow that may cause a concussion, to be the best parents we can be and respond if our child needs us.

Rather than write this type of review, I wanted to offer my personal take on the film as a parent of a child with concussions and as concussion educator, and why I think parents should see Head Games.

No, this movie is important for all parents because while it focuses on sports concussions, concussions can happen to any child in any activity — on the field, in the rink, in the bathroom, the kitchen or in the backyard.