Athletics General Athletics NCAA Committee Acts on Concussion Management
Written by Bill Bean
The NCAA committee responsible for recommending rules and policies on student-athlete health and safety has proposed a new playing rule for every championship sport that would prohibit student-athletes who have lost consciousness from returning to play for the duration of that day. The Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports, which met this week in Indianapolis, also agreed to a number of other policy-related and educational actions to improve understanding of and response to concussions in all sports.
They include a revision of the NCAA Sports Medicine Handbook guideline addressing concussions and the scheduling of a summit meeting in midyear 2010 to review NCAA policies for medical management of concussions and prevention strategies appropriate to the collegiate environment.
The proposed playing rule, subject to review by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel as early as mid-January, would mandate removing from competition a student-athlete “who exhibits signs, symptoms or behaviors consistent with a concussion.”
Source: Jack Copeland,The NCAA News
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