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Implementation of the 2017 Berlin Concussion in Sport Group Consensus Statement in contact and collision sports: a joint position statement from 11 national and international sports organisations
  1. Jon S Patricios1,2,
  2. Clare L Ardern3,4,
  3. Michael David Hislop5,
  4. Mark Aubry6,
  5. Paul Bloomfield7,
  6. Carolyn Broderick7,
  7. Patrick Clifton8,9,
  8. Ruben J Echemendia10,11,12,
  9. Richard G Ellenbogen13,14,
  10. Éanna Cian Falvey15,
  11. Gordon Ward Fuller16,
  12. Julie Grand10,
  13. Dallas Hack17,
  14. Peter Rex Harcourt8,
  15. David Hughes8,9,
  16. Nathan McGuirk7,
  17. Willem Meeuwisse10,
  18. Jeffrey Miller13,
  19. John T Parsons17,
  20. Simona Richiger6,
  21. Allen Sills13,18,
  22. Kevin B Moran19,
  23. Jenny Shute20,
  24. Martin Raftery5
  1. 1 University of Pretoria, Section of Sports Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg, South Africa
  2. 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  3. 3 Department of Physiotherapy, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
  4. 4 School of Allied Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  5. 5 World Rugby, Dublin, Ireland
  6. 6 International Ice Hockey Federation, Zurich, Switzerland
  7. 7 National Rugby League, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  8. 8 Australian Football League, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  9. 9 Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra, Australia
  10. 10 National Hockey League, New York, USA
  11. 11 University Orthopedic Center, Concussion Care Clinic, State College, Pennsylvania, USA
  12. 12 University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
  13. 13 National Football League, New York, USA
  14. 14 Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
  15. 15 Irish Rugby Football Union, Dublin, Ireland
  16. 16 Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care Research, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
  17. 17 National Collegiate Athletic Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
  18. 18 Fédération Equestre Internationale, Lausanne, Switzerland
  19. 19 Gaelic Athletic Association, Dublin, Ireland
  20. 20 Fédération Internationale de Ski, Oberhofen and Thunersee, Switzerland
  1. Correspondence to Dr Jon S Patricios, Section of Sports Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 2121, South Africa; jpat{at}mweb.co.za

Abstract

The 2017 Berlin Concussion in Sport Group Consensus Statement provides a global summary of best practice in concussion prevention, diagnosis and management, underpinned by systematic reviews and expert consensus. Due to their different settings and rules, individual sports need to adapt concussion guidelines according to their specific regulatory environment. At the same time, consistent application of the Berlin Consensus Statement’s themes across sporting codes is likely to facilitate superior and uniform diagnosis and management, improve concussion education and highlight collaborative research opportunities. This document summarises the approaches discussed by medical representatives from the governing bodies of 10 different contact and collision sports in Dublin, Ireland in July 2017. Those sports are: American football, Australian football, basketball, cricket, equestrian sports, football/soccer, ice hockey, rugby league, rugby union and skiing. This document had been endorsed by 11 sport governing bodies/national federations at the time of being published.

  • consensus
  • contact sports
  • implementation
  • concussion

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https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2018-099079

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors MR conceived the idea for and arranged the meeting. JP summarised all the attendees' contributions, drafted the paper, proofread and edited. MDH and CLA documented each delegates' input at the meeting. CLA formatted and proofread the paper. All other authors presented and spoke on behalf of their codes at the meeting, submitted written contributions to the paper and assisted with editing.

    • Funding This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.