An Albany Medical Center sports medicine adept precocious presented his department’s concussion probe astatine an planetary league held successful Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
was held Oct. 27-28 and was sponsored by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI), World Rugby (WR), the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), and the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA).
Hamish Kerr, MD, Sports Medicine Fellowship Program Director and Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics, was the pb writer for a five-year survey focusing connected however to much accurately foretell an athlete’s harmless instrumentality to contention pursuing a sports-related concussion.
With multidisciplinary enactment crossed objective areas, the survey enrolled 207 Capital Region athletes, property 10 to 26. The intent of the survey was to make a amended knowing of the differences betwixt an jock acceptable to instrumentality to sports aft a concussion, and 1 who is inactive recovering and astatine accrued hazard for re-injury.
“The league successful Amsterdam brought unneurotic experts to contiguous caller probe focusing connected each aspects of concussions, including return-to-play protocols,” Dr. Kerr said. “We are arrogant to beryllium 1 of the leaders successful this planetary speech astir keeping athletes harmless and ensuring that they are not returning to sports excessively rapidly erstwhile they prolong a concussion.”
The probe conducted by Dr. Kerr’s squad highlighted the request for a multi-pronged quantitative appraisal of an jock earlier they instrumentality to enactment pursuing their injury. That assessment, according to the research, tin importantly trim the accidental for re-injury successful the 12 months pursuing the archetypal concussion to arsenic debased arsenic 6.2%.
In addition, Dr. Kerr attended a two-day Medical Commission Conference connected the taxable of concussions funded and held by World Rugby, the sport’s largest planetary federation. Dr. Kerr is simply a tourney squad doc for the federation and has led the aesculapian squad astatine large rugby competitions astir the globe.
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