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FACT SHEET: President Obama Applauds Commitments to Address
Sports-Related Concussions in Young People
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FACT SHEET: President Obama Applauds Commitments to Address
Sports-Related Concussions in Young People
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FACT SHEET: President Obama Applauds Commitments to Address Sports-Related
Concussions in Young People
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Sports are one of the best ways to keep our kids active and healthy, but
young people make nearly 250,000 emergency room visits each year with
sport or recreation-related brain injuries. As a sports fan and a parent
with two young daughters, President Obama believes we need to do more to
protect the health and safety of our kids. Today, the President will host
the first-ever White House Healthy Kids & Safe Sports Concussion Summit to
advance research on sports-related youth concussions and raise awareness
of steps to prevent, identify and respond to concussions in young people.
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The truth is we still do not know enough about the consequences of
traumatic brain injuries, where its a hard knock on the playing field or
head injury sustained by one of our troops serving abroad. Every mother
and father, friend and family deserves to know everything we can about the
best way to care for our young athletes and veterans and thats the core
focus of todays White House Summit.
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Staying Active and Playing Safe
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Each day, hundreds of thousands of young athletes head out to fields, ice
rinks and gymnasiums to practice and compete in a wide variety of sports.
There is no doubt that sports are a great way for kids and teens to stay
healthy, as well as to learn important leadership and team-building
skills. At the same time, parents are increasingly concerned about the
role of concussions in sports. Concussions can have a serious effect on
young, developing brains, and can cause short- and long-term problems
affecting how a child thinks, acts, learns, and feels. While most kids and
teens with a concussion recover quickly and fully, some will have symptoms
that last for days, or even weeks, and a more serious concussion can last
longer.
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Last fall, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council
published a report that found that there are gaps in our concussions
research knowledge and that there is a startling lack of data on
concussions, especially in youth sports. The report also found that there
is still a culture of resistance among athletes related to the
self-reporting of concussions and the adherence to treatment plans once
they experience a concussion.
Advancing the Ball
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The President believes that we can and must do better. Raising awareness
of and better protecting children and student athletes from concussions,
and better identifying and treating them when they do occur, requires a
team approach and we must work with the professional sports community,
youth sports programs, parents, school administrators, researches,
athletes, coaches, trainers, military service members and other
stakeholders to make this effort successful. We all have a role to play in
helping to prevent, identify and respond to concussions so that young
people can remain active and healthy. And, we can all work together to
ensure that when kids do experience concussion, they are covered thanks to
the Affordable Care Act, which bans insurance companies from denying
health coverage to kids and adults with pre-existing conditions, allows
young adults to stay on their parents plans until their 26th birthday, and
offers new, affordable health coverage options.
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That is why the White House Healthy Kids & Safe Sports Concussion Summit
is bringing together key stakeholders to highlight new commitments,
including new public-private partnerships, to increase research that will
expand our knowledge of concussions and to provide parents, coaches,
clinicians, and young athletes tools to better prevent, identify and
respond to concussions.
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These commitments, many of which directly address some of the key
recommendations of the IOM report, include:
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Expanding Research and Improving Data Collection
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The NCAA and the Department of Defense are jointly launching a $30
million effort to fund the most comprehensive clinical study of concussion
and head impact exposure ever conducted and to issue an Educational Grand
Challenge aimed at improving concussion safety behaviors in college sports
and the military. This initiative aims to produce research on concussion
risks, treatment and management through a multi-site longitudinal clinical
study and advanced research projects. Through an Educational Grand
Challenge, the initiative aims to create novel and impactful
evidence-based concussion education materials and solicit research
proposals to identify key factors for affecting change in the culture and
behavior of college student-athlete and other young adult populations with
regard to concussions.
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The NFL is committing $25 million over the next three years to support
projects and partnerships aimed at promoting youth sports safety,
including support for new pilot programs to expand access to athletic
trainers in schools, in conjunction with the National Athletic Trainers
Association, and to support a Back to Sports program -- a collaboration
with the National PTA and the American Heart Association/American Stroke
Association -- to hold information sessions across the country to educate
parents about sports safety and the value of sports participation and an
active lifestyle.
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The National Institutes of Health is announcing the launch of a new
longitudinal research effort to detect, characterize, and measure the
chronic effects of repetitive concussions to inform clinical trials aimed
at preventing or slowing disease progression in the future. NIH is being
supported by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health,
starting with an initial investment of $16 million from its first Sports
Health Program partner, the National Football League. This funding,
together with grants announced at the end of last year, fulfill the $30
million commitment the NFL made to the NIH in 2012. This fall, the NIH
will convene public and private funders of concussion and TBI research,
including NIH, the NFL, DoD, and NCAA, with the goal of supporting
enhanced coordination among research efforts and better leveraging of
public and private investments to accelerate research outcomes.
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The UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Program, with a $10 million investment
from Steve Tisch, UCLAs Departments of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics will
launch the UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Program to target sports concussion
prevention, outreach, research and treatment for athletes of all ages,
especially youth. The program will focus on strategies such as community
education events, including a planned Southern California youth concussion
day for players, coaches, parents and trainers; a new fellowship program
training the next generation of pediatric sports neurologists;
longitudinal research studies to advance understanding of and treatment of
concussion; and expanded treatment capacity through new multidisciplinary
concussion clinics. In addition, this commitment will support a planning
initiative to inform the development of a national system to accurately
determine the incidence of youth sports-related concussions.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology will invest $5
million over five years as part of the Materials Genome Initiative, to
work on tools to accelerate the development of advanced materials that can
provide better protection against concussions for the athlete, the
warfighter and others. These efforts aim to advance the development of
new materials including light-weight, structural composite, and active or
smart materials for protective gear.
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Pop Warner Little Scholars will participate this season in a research
project modeled on the High School RIO reporting system, which tracks
concussions and concussion trends in high school sports, to improve
tracking of concussions among young athletes. 100 Pop Warner teams will
participate in the RIO pilot. Pop Warner provides youth football and
cheer and dance programs to approximately 425,000 young people ranging in
age from 5 to 16 years old. The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia will
launch a comprehensive pediatric and adolescent concussion registry to
enable CHOP researchers to assess data for thousands of children with
concussions to improve understanding of concussions and their impact on
child health.
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Education and Awareness for Parents, Coaches and Athletes
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Safe Kids Worldwide, in partnership with Johnson & Johnson, will host
more than 200 sports safety clinics for parents, coaches and young
athletes across the country, including education on concussions, and will
release a research report this summer providing updated insights into the
culture of youth sports today. The Brain Injury Association of America in
collaboration with SAP will build an online application to help students,
parents and educators better understand when to return to class after a
concussion through a software platform that allows students, parents,
educators, coaches and medical treatment providers to communicate.
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USA Cheer will roll-out a new Head Injury Protocol to over 300,000
cheerleaders and their coaches this summer at clinics around the country
to teach coaches and cheerleaders how to prevent, identify and seek
treatment for any suspected head injuries. USA Cheer and its partners,
the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators, the
U.S. All-Star Federation and the National Federation of State High School
Associations will release new, updated cheerleading safety guidelines to
reduce head injuries in cheerleading.
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U.S. Soccer is establishing a Chief Medical Officer position to
interface with the medical community and experts in the field of
concussion management and prevention. U.S. Soccer and Major League
Soccer will jointly organize a first-of-its-kind Medical Summit to, among
other topics, lead a coordinated effort on concussion management and
prevention initiatives. They also will use their platforms to communicate
PSAs and other concussion-related messages including through U.S. Mens and
Womens National Team games, MLS games and special events, and other
venues.
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The National Federation of State High School Associations will host a
concussion summit this year focused on promoting best practices to
minimize injury risks in high school athletes. NFHS writes playing rules
for high school level sports, reaching more than 19,000 high schools and
more than 7.7. million participants in high school sports. The National
High School Athletic Coaches Association will use its summer convention
to provide education sessions on concussion for high school coaches and
expand the concussion information on its Web site.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will promote the use of
its new Heads Up to Parents app to help parents learn how to spot
concussion symptoms and what to do if they think their child or teen has a
concussion. In response to the Institute of Medicine's recommendation to
evaluate education efforts, CDC will evaluate its Heads Up concussion
education program to help ensure that its messages are best reaching
parents, coaches and young athletes. It also will support the evaluation
of 'return to play' laws.
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Educating Health Care Providers
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The American Academy of Neurology will host its first
multidisciplinary Sports Concussion Conference this summer and continue to
support a national public education campaign to increase awareness of its
clinical guidelines on sports concussions. The American Psychological
Association will produce a Web-based Concussions Toolkit as a resource for
psychologists on concussions research and clinical information. The
American Academy of Pediatrics anticipates releasing an updated policy
statement on sports-related concussion in children and adolescents in the
fall of 2015. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will, by
spring 2015, release the clinical guidelines it is developing for the
appropriate diagnosis and management of children and teens with mild
traumatic brain injury, including concussions, for use in doctor's offices
and emergency departments. CDC has convened a Pediatric Mild Traumatic
Brain Injury Guideline Workgroup composed of leading clinical experts to
support the development of these guidelines.
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