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Infographic: Consensus statement on concussion in sport
  1. Paul McCrory1,
  2. Willem Meeuwisse2,
  3. Jiri Dvorak3,
  4. Mark Aubry4,
  5. Julian Bailes5,
  6. Steven Broglio6,
  7. Robert C Cantu7,
  8. David Cassidy8,
  9. Ruben J Echemendia9,10,
  10. Rudy J Castellani11,
  11. Gavin A Davis1,12,
  12. Richard Ellenbogen13,
  13. Carolyn Emery14,
  14. Lars Engebretsen15,16,
  15. Nina Feddermann-Demont17,18,
  16. Christopher C Giza19,20,
  17. Kevin M Guskiewicz21,
  18. Stanley Herring22,
  19. Grant L Iverson23,24,
  20. Karen M Johnston25,
  21. James Kissick26,27,
  22. Jeffrey Kutcher28,
  23. John J Leddy29,
  24. David Maddocks30,
  25. Michael Makdissi1,
  26. Geoff Manley31,
  27. Michael McCrea32,
  28. William P Meehan33,34,
  29. Shinji Nagahiro35,
  30. Jon Patricios36,37,
  31. Margot Putukian38,
  32. Kathryn J Schneider39,
  33. Allen Sills40,41,
  34. Charles H Tator42,43,
  35. Michael Turner44,
  36. Pieter E Vos45
  1. 1Traumatic Brain Injury Laboratory, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
  2. 2Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  3. 3Swiss Concussion Center, Spine Unit, Schulthess Clinic, Zurich, Switzerland
  4. 4International Ice Hockey Federation, Zurich, Switzerland
  5. 5Department of Neurosurgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, USA
  6. 6Department of Kinesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
  7. 7Centre for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  8. 8Division of Health Care and Outcomes Research, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  9. 9Department of Psychology, University of Missouri-Kansas City, State College, Pennsylvania, USA
  10. 10Psychological and Neurobehavioral Associates Inc, State College, Pennsylvania, USA
  11. 11Department of Pathology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  12. 12Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
  13. 13Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
  14. 14Department of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  15. 15Department of Ortho Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
  16. 16Head, Scientific Activities, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland
  17. 17Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
  18. 18Department of Neurology, Schulthess Klinik, Zurich, Switzerland
  19. 19Department of Neurosurgery, UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Program, Los Angeles, California, USA
  20. 20Department of Pediatrics/Pediatric Neurology, Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  21. 21Sports Medicine Research Laboratory, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
  22. 22Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine and Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
  23. 23Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
  24. 24Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  25. 25Department of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  26. 26Carleton University Sport Medicine Clinic, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  27. 27International Paralympic Committee Medical Committee, Ottowa, Ontario, Canada
  28. 28The Sports Neurology Clinic, Brighton, Michigan, USA
  29. 29Department of Orthopaedics, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
  30. 30Centre for Health Exercise and Sports Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  31. 31Department of Neurosurgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
  32. 32Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  33. 33Department of Sports Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  34. 34Department of Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  35. 35Department of Neurosurgery, Tokushima Daigaku Byoin, Tokushima, Japan
  36. 36Section of Sports Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Johannesburg, South Africa
  37. 37Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  38. 38Department of Athletic Medicine, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
  39. 39Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  40. 40Department of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Franklin, Tennessee, USA
  41. 41Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Franklin, Tennessee, USA
  42. 42Toronto Western Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  43. 43Canadian Sports Concussion Project, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  44. 44International Concussion & Head Injury Research Foundation, London, United Kingdom
  45. 45Department of Neurology, Slingeland Ziekenhuis, Doetinchem, Netherlands
  1. Correspondence to Professor Paul McCrory, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health - Austin Campus, 245 Burgundy Street, Heidelberg VIC 3084, Australia; paulmccr{at}icloud.com

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  • Competing interests For full author disclosures and competing interests see the online supplementary folder on the BJSM website (http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2017-097699).

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