Dr. Thomas Trojian of Drexel University College of Medicine was lead author of a new study that showed a sharp increase in the number of
youth athlete receiving medical treatment for sports - related concussions after CT concussion laws were passed in 2010.
Not exact matches
World
Youth champion Harry Coppell among 28
athletes to
receive support from national governing body
One of the most active athletic trainers» association at the state level is in New Jersey, which was the first state to require by law that coaches
receive safety training, is among the 40 states that have enacted strong
youth concussion safety laws, and has been a leader in advocating for academic accommodations for concussed student -
athletes.
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.
Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: 16 V.S.A. Section 1162 (2011) requires the commissioner of education or designee, assisted by members of the Vermont Principal's Association, to develop statewide guidelines, forms and other materials designed to educate coaches,
youth athletes and their parents / guardians regarding the nature and risks of concussion and other head injuries, the risks of premature participation in athletic activities after a concussion or head injury and the importance of obtaining a medical evaluation of a suspected concussion or other head injury and
receiving treatment when necessary.
Of the tens of thousands of e-mails MomsTeam has
received over the years, most distressing are those that detail how often some try to justify emotional or even physical abuse of
youth sports
athletes in the name of winning.
What better way to
receive feedback on your coaches» skills and leadership abilities than by asking the parents of the
youth athletes.
All of us involved in
youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the
athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player
receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the
youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether
athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).
From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have
received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic
athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make
youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.
The Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers» Society (PATS) utilized funds they
received from a grant provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, to work collaboratively with the PAMed and SSI to provide free concussion education throughout the Commonwealth for physicians, physician assistants, coaches, parents and
athletes participating in
youth sports.
PATS utilized funds they
received from a grant provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Health to provide free concussion education throughout the Commonwealth for physicians, physician assistants, coaches, parents and
athletes participating in
youth sports.
Over the last few years, Pennsylvania legislators have placed a focus on the health care that scholastic
athletes are
receiving with the signing of the
Youth Sport Safety Act in November of 2011 and the signing of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Law in May 2012.
This suggests neurologists may be able to use telemedicine to manage concussions, make removal from play decisions, and close the gaps in medical care by providing all collegiate and
youth athletes similar concussion care as professional
athletes receive.