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Saskatchewan Soccer: Concussion Policy & Protocols Receive National Attention
2014-08-22
A coalition of advocacy groups is calling on Canada's athletic organizations to be more proactive about dealing with concussions.
Today an article went out in the Canadian Press highlighting the SSA’s concussion policy as being one of the most comprehensive in Canada. This article could be picked up nationally from various sources.
The interview focused on Associations, such as SSA, ensuring that we get expert advice and support to implement a comprehensive concussion protocol. “The Saskatchewan Soccer Association leaned heavily on local experts when developing their concussion protocol last year. Executive Director Doug Pederson said the province's Sports Medicine Science Council offered advice on every facet of the new policy, including providing educational links for parents to access and urging injured players not to lace up their cleats until they had hashed out a "return to play" plan with a doctor. Pederson said their guidance was essential, since association members themselves don't have the subject matter knowledge to make the policy as sound as it could be. "We had good advice and good help to build our policy," he said. ….
This article was in response to the Canadian Center for Ethic in Sport CCES and Canadian Concussion Collaborative http://www.cces.ca/en/home recommendations that were announced today.
During the course of research on NSO and PSO’s the SSA concussion policy was found to be exemplary. The SSA gratefully acknowledges the role the Sport Medicine and Science Council played; led by Dave Nutt and working very closely with SMCS, the SSA have developed a policy which has now received national recognition and one we can be very proud of.
The CCES have requested and been provided with permission to share links to the SSA concussion policy should others want an example of a comprehensive policy.
One of the future goals of the Canadian Concussion Collaborative is to make concussion policy, education and protocols mandatory in sporting organizations.
This stance is supported by a related article that was also released in the British Journal of Sport Medicine.
The interview focused on Associations, such as SSA, ensuring that we get expert advice and support to implement a comprehensive concussion protocol. “The Saskatchewan Soccer Association leaned heavily on local experts when developing their concussion protocol last year. Executive Director Doug Pederson said the province's Sports Medicine Science Council offered advice on every facet of the new policy, including providing educational links for parents to access and urging injured players not to lace up their cleats until they had hashed out a "return to play" plan with a doctor. Pederson said their guidance was essential, since association members themselves don't have the subject matter knowledge to make the policy as sound as it could be. "We had good advice and good help to build our policy," he said. ….
This article was in response to the Canadian Center for Ethic in Sport CCES and Canadian Concussion Collaborative http://www.cces.ca/en/home recommendations that were announced today.
During the course of research on NSO and PSO’s the SSA concussion policy was found to be exemplary. The SSA gratefully acknowledges the role the Sport Medicine and Science Council played; led by Dave Nutt and working very closely with SMCS, the SSA have developed a policy which has now received national recognition and one we can be very proud of.
The CCES have requested and been provided with permission to share links to the SSA concussion policy should others want an example of a comprehensive policy.
One of the future goals of the Canadian Concussion Collaborative is to make concussion policy, education and protocols mandatory in sporting organizations.
This stance is supported by a related article that was also released in the British Journal of Sport Medicine.
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