TY - JOUR
T1 - National football league head, neck and spine committee’s concussion diagnosis and management protocol
T2 - 2017-18 season
AU - Ellenbogen, Richard G.
AU - Batjer, Hunt
AU - Cardenas, Javier
AU - Berger, Mitchel
AU - Bailes, Julian
AU - Pieroth, Elizabeth
AU - Heyer, Robert
AU - Theodore, Nicholas
AU - Hsu, Wellington
AU - Nabel, Elizabeth
AU - Maroon, Joe
AU - Cantu, Robert
AU - Barnes, Ronnie
AU - Collins, James
AU - Putukian, Margot
AU - Lonser, Russell
AU - Solomon, Gary
AU - Sills, Allen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/7
Y1 - 2018/7
N2 - One of the National Football League’s (NFL) Head, Neck and Spine Committee’s principal goals is to create a’best practice’ protocol for concussion diagnosis and management for its players. The science related to concussion diagnosis and management continues to evolve, thus the protocol has evolved contemporaneously. The Fifth International Conference on Concussion in Sport was held in Berlin in 2016, and guidelines for sports concussion diagnosis and management were revised and refined. The NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee has synthesised the most recent empirical evidence for sports concussion diagnosis and management including the Berlin consensus statement and tailored it to the game played in the NFL. One of the goals of the Committee is to provide a standardised, reliable, efficient and evidence-based protocol for concussion diagnosis and management that can be applied in this professional sport during practice and game day. In this article, the end-of-season version of the 2017–18 NFL Concussion Diagnosis and Management Protocol is described along with its clinical rationale. Immediate actions for concussion programme enhancement and research are reviewed. It is the Committee’s expectation that the protocol will undergo refinement and revision over time as the science and clinical practice related to concussion in sports crystallise.
AB - One of the National Football League’s (NFL) Head, Neck and Spine Committee’s principal goals is to create a’best practice’ protocol for concussion diagnosis and management for its players. The science related to concussion diagnosis and management continues to evolve, thus the protocol has evolved contemporaneously. The Fifth International Conference on Concussion in Sport was held in Berlin in 2016, and guidelines for sports concussion diagnosis and management were revised and refined. The NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee has synthesised the most recent empirical evidence for sports concussion diagnosis and management including the Berlin consensus statement and tailored it to the game played in the NFL. One of the goals of the Committee is to provide a standardised, reliable, efficient and evidence-based protocol for concussion diagnosis and management that can be applied in this professional sport during practice and game day. In this article, the end-of-season version of the 2017–18 NFL Concussion Diagnosis and Management Protocol is described along with its clinical rationale. Immediate actions for concussion programme enhancement and research are reviewed. It is the Committee’s expectation that the protocol will undergo refinement and revision over time as the science and clinical practice related to concussion in sports crystallise.
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U2 - 10.1136/bjsports-2018-099203
DO - 10.1136/bjsports-2018-099203
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29549147
AN - SCOPUS:85049128648
SN - 0306-3674
VL - 52
SP - 894
EP - 902
JO - British Journal of Sports Medicine
JF - British Journal of Sports Medicine
IS - 14
ER -