Take a free, non-credit online course on concussion with UCalgary and Université Laval. The seven-week course is open to those who are interested in preventing, detecting and managing concussions.
Neem jou kind aan kontaksport deel, is harsingskudding maar altyd in ’n mens se agterkop. Maar latere probleme kan voorkom word. Rooi Rose Magazine, June 2014, Page 84.
Figures from SA Rugby indicate that 12-15 percent of boys playing rugby in any given season will be concussed and that there is a 50 percent chance of a player receiving a blow to the head, resulting in concussion, at some time in his school rugby career.
A study presented at the American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting by Kevin Guskiewicz and others and about to be published in Med Sci Sports Exerc claims that the risk of depression later in life is three times higher in those American football players who have suffered three or more concussive episodes in their career..
Recently retired Lions doctor Jon Patricios to advance the drive to make the management and treatment of concussion in rugby more scientific and efficient through the Pharos Concussion Programme.
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