With one in five high
school athletes sustaining a concussion each year, a group of concerned parents created a comprehensive concussion management system to protect youth from the risk of cumulative undetected concussions
With one in five high
school athletes sustaining a concussion each year, a group of concerned parents created a comprehensive concussion management system to protect youth from the risk of cumulative undetected concussions September 24, 2013 (Chicago, IL...
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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 head injury.
Concussion or Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 20 -2-324.1 (2013) requires each local board of education, administration of a nonpublic
school and governing body of a charter
school to adopt and implement a concussion management and return to play policy that includes the following components: 1) an information sheet to all youth
athletes» parents or legal guardians informing them of the nature and risk of concussion and head injury, 2) requirement for removal from play and examination by a health care provider for those exhibiting symptoms of a concussion during a game, competition, tryout or practice and 3) for those youth that have
sustained a concussion (as determined by a health care provider), the coach or other designated personnel shall not permit the youth
athlete to return to play until they receive clearance from a health care provider for a full or graduated return to play.
The results of the research paper are consistent with those of a 2013 study which found that, while ACL injuries did not disproportionately affect female high
school athletes overall, girls were found to have a significantly higher ACL injury rate than boys in sex - comparable sports (soccer, basketball, and baseball / softball), with girls 2 times more likely to suffer an ACL injury playing soccer than any other sport, and 4 times more likely to
sustain such an injury playing either soccer or basketball than volleyball or softball.
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 preve
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 preve
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.
Moreover,
schools and coaches are not held strictly liable for injuries
sustained by student -
athletes in the course of athletic participation.
Based on data showing that, while youth football players
sustained concussions at about the same rate in practice and overall as high
school and college
athletes, they were injured at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than older players during games, the UPMC researchers predicted that Pop Warner's new rules «may not only have little effect on reducing on reducing concussions but may also actually increase the incidence of concussions in games via reduced time learning proper tackling in practice.»
Since 2011, the all - boys» private
school, generally known as St. Mike's, has been running programs in partnership with the David L. MacIntosh Sport Medicine Clinic at the University of Toronto to support the recovery of student
athletes who have
sustained concussions, known medically as mild traumatic brain injuries.
As perceived by parents,
schools differ in their current services and policies to ensure the appropriate care of young
athletes who
sustain a concussion.
Guests include Niki Popyer, a former high
school athlete from Marlboro, NJ who
sustained multiple sports - related concussions; Dr. Robb Rehberg, Executive Director of Sport Safety International, and; Dr. Seth Stoller, Neurology Chief for the Concussion Center at the Atlantic Neuroscience Institute at Overlook Hospital in Summit.
Sports concussions are on a dramatic rise - 1 in 5 high
school athletes will
sustain a concussion this year.
Nearly 93 percent of National Football League (NFL)
athletes who
sustained traumatic injuries to the midfoot returned to competition less than 15 months after injury and with no statistically significant decrease in performance, according to new research from the Perelman
School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
«When you consider that, overall, high
school athletes have been shown to score higher on quality of life than their non-athlete counterparts, the risk of not playing sports could lead to lower quality of life than playing sports and
sustaining concussion,» he theorized.
«High
school athletes with a history of concussion report depression symptoms at the same rate as
athletes who have never
sustained a concussion,» Schwarz said.