Nine national sports advocacy groups are calling for a concerted–and unified–approach to dealing with concussions in Canada.
Calling themselves the Canadian Concussion Collaborative, the advocacy groups want a more organized approach to managing concussion care, prevention and education.
It says that most sporting organizations have policies that deal with some aspects of the problem but don’t address the problem as a whole. It wants policies instituted that address the needs of a concussion patient at every step of the process.
It wants those policies implemented immediately and it wants them reviewed once a year.
It also recommends that sports organizations consult with medical professionals and local communities when developing protocols.
The collaborative makes its case in the September issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
One member of the collaborative is the Ottawa-based Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport.
The organization’s CEO is Doug MacQuarrie, who spoke by phone with RCI from is office in Ottawa.
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