The National Football League Concussion Protocol: A Review

Sport-related concussion remains an area of high concern for contact sport athletes and their families, as well as for the medical and scientific communities. The National Football League (NFL), along with the NFL Players Association and experts in the field, has developed protocols for the detectio...

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Autores principales: Jacobi, Jaclyn, Wasserman, Erin B., D. Mack, Christina, Heinzelmann, Morgan, Cárdenas, Javier, Rehberg, Robb, Solomon, Gary, Sills, Allen, Vargas, Bert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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Football Sports Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10331260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37435134
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15563316231177207
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author Jacobi, Jaclyn
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Cárdenas, Javier
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description Sport-related concussion remains an area of high concern for contact sport athletes and their families, as well as for the medical and scientific communities. The National Football League (NFL), along with the NFL Players Association and experts in the field, has developed protocols for the detection and management of sport-related concussions. This article reviews the NFL’s most recent concussion protocol including preseason education and baseline testing for players, concussion surveillance by gameday medical teams and neurotrauma consultants and athletic trainers, gameday concussion protocol and procedures, and return to participation guidelines.
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spelling pubmed-103312602023-07-11 The National Football League Concussion Protocol: A Review Jacobi, Jaclyn Wasserman, Erin B. D. Mack, Christina Heinzelmann, Morgan Cárdenas, Javier Rehberg, Robb Solomon, Gary Sills, Allen Vargas, Bert HSS J Football Sports Medicine Sport-related concussion remains an area of high concern for contact sport athletes and their families, as well as for the medical and scientific communities. The National Football League (NFL), along with the NFL Players Association and experts in the field, has developed protocols for the detection and management of sport-related concussions. This article reviews the NFL’s most recent concussion protocol including preseason education and baseline testing for players, concussion surveillance by gameday medical teams and neurotrauma consultants and athletic trainers, gameday concussion protocol and procedures, and return to participation guidelines. SAGE Publications 2023-06-13 2023-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10331260/ /pubmed/37435134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15563316231177207 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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