{"id":11259,"date":"2012-08-13T14:12:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T19:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/?p=11259"},"modified":"2019-10-03T12:47:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T17:47:41","slug":"npt-reports-heading-off-concussions-in-school-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2012\/08\/13\/npt-reports-heading-off-concussions-in-school-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"NPT Reports: Heading off Concussions in School Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SJMFdOu2QqU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to playing football, Tennessee Athletic Director Chris Snoddy has a word of advice: take the <em>head <\/em>out of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we want to do more with the heads than we used to, the head has kind of become a big thing. Part of the influence of the NFL everyone wants to make a big hit,\u201d says Chris Snoddy, President of the Tennessee Athletic Trainers Society.<\/p>\n<p>Making a big hit may mean the risk of concussion.\u00a0 Snoddy says that concussions are no longer taken lightly in sports; they are traumatic brain injuries, and could mean keeping an athlete on the sidelines for several weeks. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/headsup\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centers for Disease Control <\/a>reports that sports-related concussions in the U.S have reached an epidemic level, with around 1.6 to 3.8 million sports-related concussions in the United States every year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we&#8217;re morhttp:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/concussion\/e aware of concussions and we\u2019re more focused on concussions now.\u00a0 Twenty years ago you just kind of played through it because you didn&#8217;t know any better as an athlete, and you know everybody kind of got their bell rung, or what they called \u2018the dinger,\u2019\u201d says Snoddy.<\/p>\n<p>But football isn\u2019t always the culprit.\u00a0 High school athlete Cole Porter got a concussion while wakeboarding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went up for a jump and I just came down wrong, and I landed headfirst. When I came back up I was little dizzy. And when I got back to the boat I had just a major headache, and that kind of set it off,\u201d says Porter.<\/p>\n<p>Signs and symptoms of concussions can include headache, dizziness, loss of memory, confusion, loss of consciousness, ringing in the ears, and nausea or vomiting.<\/p>\n<p>Athletic trainer Chris Snoddy says that the athletes he sees are involved in multiple sports that put them at risk for concussion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoccer and cheerleading have very high concussion rates, cheerleading may have the highest,\u201d says Snoddy.<\/p>\n<p>Before his team\u2019s practice, Porter took a balance test. The test, which includes various movements like standing on one foot, gauges concussion recovery. Tennessee is one of only five states in the nation that currently has no existing or pending legislation around concussion testing.\u00a0 However, most high schools already follow guidelines for preventing and managing concussions set by the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association.<\/p>\n<p>There are various ways student athletes can prevent concussions, though wearing a helmet isn\u2019t always one of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe helmet and the head does not need to be the primary contact point.\u00a0 The helmets were designed to prevent skull fractures, they do a great job at preventing skull fractures.\u00a0 And that was a problem fifty or sixty years ago.\u00a0 No one gets a skull fracture hardly playing football anymore because of helmets,\u201d says Snoddy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut just like you can bust the yoke of an egg by shaking it, and never break the shell, the same is true with concussions.\u00a0 And the brain inside the skull.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So just how do you prevent the yolk from getting broken?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne great way to prevent concussions is to teach your athletes to hit the right way\u2026using the shoulder pads, using the forearm. It&#8217;s also good for your athletic trainer, your coach and your parents and your athlete to have a very honest and open dialog saying my son has got hurt doing this other thing\u2026so we can protect him and hold him out of activities until he\u2019s safe to return.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to playing football, Tennessee Athletic Director Chris Snoddy has a word of advice: take the head out of it. \u201cI think we want to do&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-npt-reports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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