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Spokesperson Brock Huard!
Washington Heads Up:
Concussion in Youth Sports Campaign
To
prevent primary and secondary brain injuries by young people engaged
in youth sports throughout Washington State.
Sponsored by
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Brain Injury Association of Washington
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Target audience: adult personnel of middle and high school athletic
departments – coaches, team doctors, athletic directors (AD), and
certified athletic directors (ATC), parents, and student athletes.
Campaign Components:
 Spokesman:
Brock Huard,
former
quarterback
for the University of Washington and - in the
NFL-
for the
Seattle Seahawks
and the
Indianapolis Colts.
In addition to his current position as
Project Director for Nitze-Stagen, Huard also does radio and
television commentary for
ESPN,
Pop Warner football specials
live from
Disney's Wide World of Sports,
or commentary on NFL preseason games for the
NFL Network.
Campaign Kick-off took place on March 15 before 480 athletic trainers at the Northwest
Athletic Trainers Association (NWATA) Annual Meeting and Clinical
Symposium in
Bellevue, Washington.
Campaign Materials and Resources:
thanks to the CDC, the BIAWA and the Seattle Seahawks are offering
free materials such as posters, CDs, printed materials, and clip
boards for every middle or high school in Washington. Materials are
being distributed at school sports-related conferences and letters
will be going out to every high school coach in Washington.
Sports Concussion Toolkits from CDC:
The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with the support
of partners and experts in the field, has developed a tool kit for
coaches titled, Heads Up: Concussion
in High School Sports.
Click here to learn more
Conference Presentations and Materials Distribution
in 2008:
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Northwest Athletic Trainers Association (NWATA)
Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium, March 15, Bellevue
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Washington
Secondary School Athletic Administrators Association (WSSAAA), Spokane
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Whiplash and Spinal Trauma Conference
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BIAWA Legal Seminar, June 6
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Washington Interscholastic Activities Association,
August
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Washington
State Coaches Association
Consensus Statement:
The Washington Heads Up Program: Concussion in Youth Sport consensus
statement
discusses the definition
and symptoms of sports concussion, the management of sports
concussions including return to play decisions, and the short and
long term consequences of sports concussions.
Media Outreach: Campaign Spokesman Brock Huard will be featured in a Public Service
Announcement (PSA) to air
over television later this year. This PSA is to increase awareness that concussion is a brain
injury and should be taken seriously.
Regional Medical Conference:
scheduled for early 2009.
Campaign Committee (in formation)
Stanley A. Herring, MD,
Team Physician
Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Mariners
Clinical Professor Departments Of Rehabilitation Medicine,
Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, and Neurological Surgery
University of Washington
School of Medicine
Brock Huard, Project Director
Nitze-Stagen
Kevin Griffin, Director of Fan Development
Seattle Seahawks
Richard Adler, Esq. President
Brain Injury Association of Washington
Gene van den Bosch, MA, MPA,
Executive Director
Brain Injury Association of Washington
Patrick Jenkins MA, ATC, CES
Head Athletic Trainer
University of Washington
Mike Obergottsberger, ATC, President
Washington State Athletic Trainers’ Association (WSATA)
A Special Plea Concerning
Crying
Babies
Research indicates that as many as 50% of teenagers and
young adults are completely unaware that shaking a baby can cause brain injury
or death to an infant.
The complete story on this can be found on the National
Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome web site at
http://www.dontshake.com
One of the things you can do to help prevent a tragedy
is to spread the word about how to calm a crying baby. Believe it or not
there IS a way to do just that, provided by Dr. Harvey Karp, author of "The
Happiest Baby On the Block".
To see Dr. Karp's simple five-step
technique for calming a crying baby, click on this picture...
How to calm a
crying baby
More Valuable Prevention Links
Brain Injury Can be
Prevented!!
Many of the brain injuries that occur
annually in this country can be prevented. Each year 140,000 persons
die from brain injuries and 70,000 persons sustain severe brain
injuries.
A brain injury is an insult to the
brain caused by an external force, which may impair cognitive,
physical, behavioral, and emotional functions.
Brain injury rehabilitation is a long
process that is measured in years rather than months. Many persons
with severe brain injuries face a wide range of lifelong problems.
These problems, in turn, can dramatically affect an individual's
ability to live independently, care for a family, and work.
The true extent of brain injury is
conveyed by numbers. Lives, hopes, dreams, families, and friendships
are often altered in the wake of a brain injury. Research,
rehabilitation, public awareness, and PREVENTION can help to lessen
the occurrence to brain injuries in our society.
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Brain Injury Association of
Washington
3516 S. 47th Street, Suite 100
Tacoma, WA 98409
Tel 253.238.6085
Fax 253.238.1042
Toll Free Helpline: 1-800-523-5438(LIFT)
Email: info@biawa.org
TBI Washington Information
and Referral Line:
1-877-TBI-1766 (1-877-824-1766)
In case of technical difficulties, call:
253-238-6085, or 425-778-3707
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