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Notes
- Abstract:
- Concussions have become part of the fine print in the imaginary contract an athlete signs when participating in a contact sport like football. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that is characterized by immediate but transient post traumatic impairment of brain functions. In 2006 a middle school football player named Zachery Lystedt suffered a life changing concussion leaving him disabled for the rest of his life. Due to this incident, in 2009 the state of Washington passed a new law named after Zachery to protect youth football players from repeating the same fate. Florida soon followed by establishing a similar law on April 27, 2012. The law enacted stated that Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) will adopt these new guidelines, and policies relating to the nature and risk of concussion and head injury in youth athletes. This will include requiring informed consent for participation in practice or competition; requiring removal from practice or competition under certain circumstances and written medical clearance to return; requiring the Florida High School Athletic Association to adopt bylaws for the establishment and duties of a sports medicine advisory committee; specifying membership; providing an effective date. (State of Florida, 2012). The inclusion criteria for this study require participants to be high school football coaches, certified athletic trainers, and athletic directors. Any other administrator was excluded from participating in this survey. The survey was made available to high school football coaches, certified athletic trainers, and athletic directors via email. The purpose of this survey was to identify if coaches, athletic trainers and athletic directors have been compliant with the new concussion regulations as well as to identify if a sufficient job was done in enforcing these newly implemented regulations. The survey contained questions about the participant’s administrative position, the number of concussions seen in the past year, referral to physicians, and return to play guidelines. Results were predicted to show a lack of concussion safety according to new regulations, although there was not a large number of participants some significance was found in lack of understanding and compliance with the new concussion regulation throughout all the participants.
- Thesis:
- Thesis (M.S.)--Barry University, 2013.
- Bibliography:
- Includes bibliographic references (leaves 38-41).
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- Barry University
- Holding Location:
- Barry University Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- Copyright Vanessa Gonzalez. Permission granted to Barry University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder.
- Resource Identifier:
- RC1218.H54 G66 2013_GonzalezVanessa ( BU-Local )
- Classification:
- RC1218.H54 G66 2013 ( lcc )
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