GET YOUR HEAD AROUND ALL THE CONCUSSION INFORMATION!
With the recent attention the NFL is getting from Congress to address the issue of concussion care at the professional level, we must trickle that attention down to the youth football ranks.
Recognition of concussions, how do we treat them and what are the long term effects for youth sports participant is changing daily.
Youth Football Coaches Association encourages it's coaches and member leagues to follow it's all the standards implement by the CDC's Head's Up Concussion Research shared with the nations high school athletics.
YFBCA.org will help keep your HEAD above water and provide all the resource out there here on YFBCA Concussion Central page.
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What's wrong with football? It's written in the pain on Greg Hadley's face. The senior from Colgate University, a two-time all-conference linebacker on the school's football team, is sitting in a Bedford, Mass., laboratory, staring at shattered brains of dead football players. On this Friday afternoon, Hadley has come to visit Dr. Ann McKee, a Boston University neurological researcher who has received a dozen brains donated from former NFL, college and high school players. In each one, it's simple to spot a protein called tau, which defines a debilitating disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Common symptoms of CTE include sudden memory loss, paranoia and depression during middle age. The disease is also known as dementia pugilistica, or punch-drunk syndrome, because until recently the overwhelming majority of its victims were boxers. Not anymore. Researchers like McKee have found a deep and disturbing association between CTE and America's most popular sport. (Contiune to the story here....)
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1. Concussion Signs and Symptoms. The diagnosis of acute concussion usually involves the assessment of a range of factors, including symptoms (reported by the athlete), physical signs and behavior (observed by trainers, coaches, other athletes and parents), balance, and sleep and cognition (orientation to time and place, concentration and immediate memory). If any of the following signs or problems is present, a head injury should be suspected and appropriate management, including monitoring for deterioration begun.
2. Concussions: Parents' Important Role in Evaluation, Recovery: Along with teachers and other school personnel such as coaches, a parent is a "critical participant"in a child???s treatment and recovery from a suspected concussion, including decisions about return to school, return to sports/recreation and return to everyday social and home activity. For a parent???s checklist, click here.
3. Parents Bill of Rights for Concussion Safety. The only way parents can sit in the stands without worrying sick about what might happen if their son or daughter suffers a concussion is if they know the program takes concussions very seriously, and that every member of the team - coach, athletic trainer, athlete, parent, and team doctor - is following the same playbook: the Parent's Bill of Rights for Concussion Safety.
4. Return to Play for Kids After Concussions: Take It Step By Step. Experts recommends a four-step return to play process after a concussive episode of rest and a stepwise return to game play (light aerobic exercise, sport-specific exercise, non-contact drills, full contact drills, medical clearance and then game play). Children and adolescents may require a longer rest period and/or extended period of non-contact exercise than adults because children and teens experience a different physiological response to concussion than adults, take longer to recover, and have other unique risk factors.
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A concussion is a brain injury caused by a bump or blow to the head that can change the way your brain normally works. Even what seems to be a mild bump or blow to the head can be serious. As many as 3.8 million sports- and recreation-related concussions are estimated to occur in the United States each year.
To help ensure the health and safety of young athletes, CDC developed the "Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports" initiative to offer information about concussions?a type of traumatic brain injury?to coaches, parents, and athletes involved in youth sports. The "Heads Up" initiative provides important information on preventing, recognizing, and responding to a concussion.
CDC wants to equip coaches, parents, and young athletes across the country with the "Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports" tool kit, which contains:
a fact sheet for coaches on concussion;
a fact sheet for athletes on concussion;
a fact sheet for parents on concussion;
a clipboard with concussion facts for coaches;
a magnet with concussion facts for coaches and parents;
a poster with concussion facts for coaches and sports administrators; and
a quiz for coaches, athletes, and parents to test their concussion knowledge.
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