Soccer is currently the most popular and fastest-growing sport worldwide. Similar to many sports, soccer carries an inherent risk of injury, including concussion. Soccer is also
unique in the use of ‘heading’.
Many have questioned whether there is a link between rugby-linked head injuries and Motor Neuron Disease (MND) in light of cases including Joost van der Westhuizen, Tinus Linee, John Mudgeway, Ryan Walker and Jarrod Cunningham, all professional rugby players that have all suffered from the disease.
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.
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SA Rugby Union medical consultant Jon Patricios has been appointed to an expert World Ruby concussion advisory panel.
The NFL’s stance on the health of players was under the spotlight on Friday after linebacker Ted Johnson, who helped the New England Patriots to three Super Bowl titles, said that a series of concussions had impaired him.
Concussion is nothing new – it was probably invented by cudgel-wielding cavemen. And until not so long ago, a wallop to the head was identified as concussion if it lead to brief loss of consciousness or amnesia.
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.
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.
A concussion is an injury to the head caused by a direct or indirect blow to the head. It is defined as a complex pathophysiological process affecting the brain, induced by traumatic biomechanical forces.
