Sports concussion expert Dr Micky Collins is the keynote speaker at UPMC Beacon orthopaedic summit next Saturday 30th November at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin which will focus on sports injury management and concussion in particular.
Although there have been a couple of high profile incidents here in recent months where players have continued on the pitch despite receiving a knock to the head, Beacon consultant orthopaedic surgeon Maurice Neligan says awareness and the level of caution with which concussion is treated has improved in recent years.
“Before that it was less recognised and it was not treated,” he says. “It was almost considered manly to stay on the pitch and to be able to play on. Now it’s recognised that that’s actually quite a dangerous thing.”
Dr Collins was one of the co-founders of the Impact assessment in the US which involves a 25-minute cognitive test to evaluate if a sports person is suffering from concussion. Only when they get a score, within a certain percentage of what they received when originally taking the test, can they return to play.
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