They could go to their league and find out what the group's
policy on concussion education is.
Not exact matches
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: HP 84 (2011) requires that the Commissioner of Education adopt a
policy on the management of head injuries in school athletic activities accordance with requirements in the Act.
The
policy also requires the development of an education program for every school that is a member of the Hawaii High School Athletic Association
on how to develop a school
concussion awareness plan.
Schools must use the graduated return to play protocols in the
Policies and Programs
on Youth
on Concussions for Public School and Youth Programs (2012).
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.
The Department of Health must also post
on its website model
policies for the identification, management, and return to play decisions for
concussions.
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.
The
Policies and Programs
on Youth
on Concussions for Public School and Youth Programs (2012) address these requirements.
Notably, unlike Virginia's law, the
policy expressly empowers game officials to remove athletes from play if they are suspected of having suffered a
concussion (a power that I have been advocating for many years game officials be given, and a power conferred
on game officials by laws at the state level in only Arizona, Iowa, and Ohio), and requires that coaches who disregard the safety and well being of a youth sports participant as it related to
concussions be subject to indefinite suspension (only Pennsylvania and Connecticut have laws which penalize coaches for violating their statutes)
The results of a study
on state high school athletic association
policies for managing sport - related
concussions revealed that
concussion education
policies for more than 70 % of high school athletic directors did not exist (Miller & Ammon, 2017).
Medical advances over the past decade, along with a national emphasis
on raising awareness about
concussions, have enabled sport organizations, including the IHSA, to draft or revise rules and
policies aimed at player safety in all sports that reflect this growing body of information.
A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and
Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws
on trends of new and recurrent
concussions among US high school athletes.
In the classroom, as
on the playing field, public schools should have
policies and procedures in place to protect the physical safety and facilitate the educational progress of students reasonably suspected of having sustained one or more
concussions.
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