New Law Takes Brain Injury Seriously

Posted by writer on Tuesday, October 25, 2011



Coloradan and Grandview High School Freshman Jake Snakenberg died after receiving a hard tackle during a school football game in 2004. At that time, doctors are advised to Snakenberg must have suffered undiagnosed brain injuries received during the previous weeks game. Thus, when a student was injured a second time, injuries are complex and led to his death. Final diagnosis: Second Impact Syndrome. Snakenberg is not the first young athlete to die after suffering such a severe concussion, and he will be the last.

Just a few days before the nearly seven years after the death Snakenberg, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed into law the young Jake Snakenberg earthquake Act. Student athletes will always get injuries, but the new law aims to improve early detection of young brain injury and thus prevent unnecessary deaths.

as a condition of this new law, all sports coaches who work with smaller athletes ages 11-18 will receive training annually earthquake recognition and certification. Then, if a young coach suspects a player suffered a concussion, he or she must pull the child out of the game and can not allow him to return to clear the game by a licensed health care radnika.Godišnja earthquake training awards will be available to coaches without costs through online-based education and testing resursa.Raspon age through targeted training of 11 - to 18 -. Year-old group of young athletes who are most at risk of receiving a traumatic brain injury

as a condition of this new law, all sports coaches who work with smaller athletes ages 11-18 will receive training annually earthquake recognition and certification. Then, if a young coach suspects a player suffered a concussion, he or she must pull the child out of the game and can not allow him to return to clear the game by a licensed health care radnika.Godišnja earthquake training awards will be available to coaches without costs through online-based education and testing resursa.Raspon age through targeted training of 11 - to 18 -. Year-old group of young athletes who are most at risk of receiving a traumatic brain injury

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needs a coach training is a major step toward maintaining a healthy young athletes. For the untrained eye, it can be very difficult to tell when someone got injured mozga.Nesreće victim of any age can take a hit in the head, and not immediately show any external symptoms hit. Of course, if brain injury is left undiagnosed and untreated, the injury could become fatal. This is perfectly normal to see athletes young and old to pick up, dust yourself and get on with playing. This does not mean that there were no injuries. Effects on the brain simply is not always immediately apparent

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It is important to bear in mind, a victim of brain injury will not necessarily lose consciousness immediately after the acquisition of an earthquake. Therefore, a discount of consciousness as the determining factor, seek medical help immediately if, after the hit on the head, a friend or loved one develops symptoms of dizziness, headaches, blurred vision, confusion, vomiting and / or loss of consciousness.

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