The question of where the responsibility lies in reducing concussions of High School contact sports such as Football and Soccer should be put on the Coaches of the team. Currently, there poses a question of how to maintain the enforcement of Anti-concussion protocol. The coaches, players, and athletic trainers all work together to be educated on the signs of a concussion and enforce treatment protocol if concussion is detected. There have been signs of the success in the anti-concussion protocol, as there have been increased reports of concussion with the presence of an Athletic Trainer (Wallace,2017), which means more individuals are being identified and therefore treated before they can undergo further serious injury. The adherence to treatment
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The team trusts their coach to help them improve, to help them win, and to help them become not only good athletes but respectable people too. This immense trust in a coach also includes their safety, and that they will be able to have fun while being safe. This puts great stress on coaches whose sport that they love also has the potential to permanently damage its players if not careful. It is the coaches duty to create a good example to be followed by their athletes and the erasure of the downsizing in severity of concussions is essential. Coaches must also be required to at times, be objective and have keen foresight in deciding simple things such as putting in a previously injured player, or benching them against their wishes or others. Even so, if the coaches adopt a strong adherence to protocol they will be able to see players 20 years from then, with great memories and not a failing one due to multiple TBI. They will see for years, all their players graduate instead of their coffin lowering 6ft. because of the sport they love. They will help to destroy a toxic culture of “rub some dirt in it” and that players “just got their bell rung”. Coaches will be able to make positive lifelong impacts on their athletes by integrating safety, and awareness along with
The team trusts their coach to help them improve, to help them win, and to help them become not only good athletes but respectable people too. This immense trust in a coach also includes their safety, and that they will be able to have fun while being safe. This puts great stress on coaches whose sport that they love also has the potential to permanently damage its players if not careful. It is the coaches duty to create a good example to be followed by their athletes and the erasure of the downsizing in severity of concussions is essential. Coaches must also be required to at times, be objective and have keen foresight in deciding simple things such as putting in a previously injured player, or benching them against their wishes or others. Even so, if the coaches adopt a strong adherence to protocol they will be able to see players 20 years from then, with great memories and not a failing one due to multiple TBI. They will see for years, all their players graduate instead of their coffin lowering 6ft. because of the sport they love. They will help to destroy a toxic culture of “rub some dirt in it” and that players “just got their bell rung”. Coaches will be able to make positive lifelong impacts on their athletes by integrating safety, and awareness along with