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thanks a lot for the introduction i'm what i'm going to do over the next twenty minutes is
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to invite you to fall we knew if this young lad um on what seems to be
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it sure ready back trajectory towards the ice rink
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which might ultimately you you tune to a
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concussion oh yeah this works perfect so i'm i'm going to be
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talking not concussions in young athletes uh and try to dispel
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a couple of minutes that are still pretty prevalent not only in the general
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population but also i'd say i'm i'm on a i'm certain number doctors
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errors uh uh not people who work around these these young people
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um so i used well as as it has been said i'm working
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trial rehabilitation uh um majority virtual nice yeah after she guy had
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severe traumatic brain injury but i do follow up a few june who had had milder forms
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especially those with post concussion syndrome which i will be a touch you on a bit later on
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now what are the myths of i'm going to try to dispel uh
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the first one is this one concussions are always been online
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i wouldn't be here if that was the case uh giving you a twenty minute talk on the subject
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um but it still is i see pretty problems believe that in the general population at least
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the second is is a very symptomatic that is to say uh yeah basically you
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have a concussion when you faint i'll three then that is not true
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uh and the third one and that's probably the one that is the
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most strongly anchored not only in the general population but also in
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our field is that can cost children actually do better than adults to
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and that as i will show you is also completely falls
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i'm just a bit of the definitions so what is a concussion the concussions be really
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basically a an acute brain disorder which is in use by external by mechanical forces
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and which will uh basically create a certain number of neurological symptoms that
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i mean one being that there are going to be a well effects on consciousness but without
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complete loss of consciousness in the majority of cases uh so we're basically in the spectrum what we called mile
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traumatic brain injury in there is a big overlap between what we call concoction and mild t. i.
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i don't think you have to well note about this in the definition is that it's more of a functional issue
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then a structural issue that is if you do brain injury only standard green
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m. r. i. is ensuring with concussions these images will usually be normal
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um so then the fisher pathology of concussions um there is as
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i said a buyout mechanical aspect notions and those are basically
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the forces that are going to be applied onto the skull
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and the brain at the are then secondarily going to
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leads to neural biological disorder which is going to give you the symptoms of concussion
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so by mechanically what you basically have or a linear forces are going to
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basically go on to the spell and affect the brain with what we call the crew and complete cool
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um but more importantly and we often forget about was there a important rotational forces
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which are going to lead to lots of shearing throughout the brain
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and these are probably the most damaging forces during the concussion
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uh and so as i said this is secondarily
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going to be two very acute disruption
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all green function what basically is happens is that you're gonna have a massive released
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of pollution made into the green which made is a strong excite radio to excited to read
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and i mean last it in your transmitter this is going to lead to
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basically an electrical storm within the brain massive construction of blue pools
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and or uh the span of a few minutes actually you're going to have a break down of the whole system
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and your bloopers metabolism is going to drop strongly you have the
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creation free are radicals and this is basically going to affect
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brain function for several hours several days and sometimes even a few weeks
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there is also i did say it wasn't a structural issue but actually you look at microstructure
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what you can see here uh who is yeah well you can see here is that on
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them like for structural level there is actually disruption of the actions which are basically
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uh the connections from one euro on to another and that also does
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take archie several days to a few weeks to actually repair
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so going on to one of the myths i was talking about like all this
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stuff monkeys in children uh and it's the what we call the cannot principle
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in neuroscience is like our principal was basically developed by margaret can are choosing you
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all the just worked in the early thirties absolute forties and united states
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and to date experiences on b. b. um
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monkeys basically cutting off their mortar
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areas on what she was able to demonstrate on these baby monkeys
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it was that despite completely disconnection their motor areas they
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where able to recover quite a good more function
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from that she basically postulate should that children's brains are highly plastic and that they are
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able to recover much better than adults through from diff well a brain injury
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the thing about mark enters experiences first monkeys on through the human shoulder and
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uh the second thing is that these are very artificial and focal lesions
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in traumatic brain injury and also in concussion what you basically have to diffuse injury
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so the miss miss here is basically the child greener covers better than an adult screen does
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but the truth actually is that when you do have diffuse injury which are basically
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going to affect the networks that which are necessary for learning from memory
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then a child's brain is is especially vulnerable because he is at this
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stage of his life where you use developing and he is learning
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so it's really just say that's a among all of the complications that i'm
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now going to go into and the long term symptoms of concussion
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yeah actually tend to be more severe and more frequent in
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june nineteen years than what you would encounter in adults
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so it it affected immunology well of course all sports and basically reach concussion and
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also non scores activity what you basically need is a hit to the head
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uh but there are certain sports that are go at high risk now which into fuels
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a chicken altogether represents a bit less than ten percent of all childhood
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sports injuries and i showed you the incidence uh incidences here
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in terms of properly and also in terms of number exporters what we do know is that competition is
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actually a high risk activities in training isn't that's
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pretty well demonstrated tramp a series of studies
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not one just our numbers specific sports not to say that they're on the only you orders
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all of concussions one that probably has been
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mess best um studied is american football
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um what we do know about american football and that has
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been studied using excel or meters on the helmets of
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a football or is it that's the advantage in this type sports that you can equip the helmet um
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for high school athlete should american football they have anywhere between two hundred in two
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thousand head impacts in one season and on each one of these impacts
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big celebration which is imparted up on this call is between twenty and a hundred
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times earth's gravity with maximal values that have been recorded three hundred g.'s
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usually beyond three hundred jeez you die uh that is the this is sub lethal
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uh uh this is basically study that was done over
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two season in standard high school athletic american football
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um now rugby of course european counterpart uh as well maybe
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not that surprisingly the fact that they don't wear helmets
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is actually slightly protective in terms of brain injury uh because
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people who don't wear helmets are probably but more careful and take less risks
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uh so actually is an interesting facts and i'll come back to that when i talk about prevention
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um i saw k. a. helmets again high speed
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high velocities lots of acceleration done the celebrations
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soccer or well european football um it doesn't seem very much race but
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what's the special thing that football is that sometimes use your head
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uh and and they're actually now a series of studies thus far in the
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eighties but have gone through to contemporary football's well we sure that
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i'm heading is actually a trace of concussion all symptoms and post concoction
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will syndrome um what has been very well shown is that
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put bowers who's there had a lot tend to have slightly lower cognitive but abilities and slightly
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laura memory than their counterparts who don't use their head as much
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uh what we know is that a cumulative number of eighteen hundred heads significantly these two or
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memory even too long when compared to standard populations so again an at risk sport
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um your sports which you might not think about cheerleading becoming more more
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athletic more more risky has led to basically a small academic
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all i'm compassion and traumatic brain injury on long a young
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athletes in united states and to finish of course
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combat sports well look this isn't something that we see too much uh i'd say at least
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in europe a prism thailand's competitive type boxing you can start around ten years old
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and you can more in national polls seeing this picture the rotational
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forces which are important on this young man's skull and brain
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not to go on to the symptoms and complaints that children who have had concussions actually do we have
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as i said one of missus the conscious contest means that you lose consciousness that you think that is not true
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loss of consciousness is actually only found in around ten percent of
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cases and a big majority of the troll no actually had
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this type of sin from which are basically the lower part
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of the iceberg doesn't feel site signs and completes
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in terms of signs that some consumed days they can get confused basic unseen from g. n. have upper bounds
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all these signs if you actually work on the field side must over choose to the
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fact that something is happening and you should withdraw these children immediately from the field
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likewise if the child or teenager comes to with the following complaints that is i
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have a headache i'm feeling nulls yes i'm annoyed by basically lighten sound
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like i'm not able to focus on the game rules again these
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are all milder signs that the child has been can
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cost that these brain function is not normal and that again
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you should remove him in egypt we from the field
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you really have to know about the symptoms focus on them and be able to react them adequately
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you see that if you don't it can have quite dramatic uh consequences
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in terms of problem moses once a child or teenager has had a concussion what basically happens well
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yeah as i said concussions are considered benign and luckily in a vast majority pieces they are and
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it is true that following caution in the majority of children or teenagers within a week
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the symptoms will result and around ninety percent of defected keener zeros
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within two weeks we'll have a complete resolution of their simpsons
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sometimes can be in the field of basically cognitive issues but they can also have a
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certain number of physical issues uh typically the headaches that i was talking about
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funerals yes street can also be quite strongly affected and these are all domains which you have to systematically
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explore when you do meet these shown when in the fall a lot of their of their concussion
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no portion control syndrome which i briefly uh i'm touched upon a bit earlier
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on what is it basically to make it easy post confessional syndrome is
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the persistence all the simpsons that i've just shown you beyond usual resolution and
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other uh is uh that it all started disagreement on the threshold
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some people say it's beyond two weeks others be on the mount basically if it goes beyond a couple of
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weeks you are within uh i'd say the the the span of what we call post concussion syndrome
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um so if you look at the figure actually before that's ninety percent resolution
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within two weeks that leaves you with ten percent of all these kids
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to basically will still have symptoms be on that and you will need a certain type
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receive medical follow up to try to help them a result in improved those symptoms
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now there are some parents are numbered risk factors for post
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concussion syndrome for so then is the severity of the
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mile t. v. i of course if they did lose consciousness it was probably a higher impacts to the brain
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an easy uh again is probably a stronger sign of that you bring this function
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and shown it had repeated concussions i'll be coming back to that
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are clearly at much higher risk of course confessional syndrome
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um now if you go beyond the simpsons and the traditional signs if
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you actually do test these children in terms of their cognitive
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and mental abilities you are able to demonstrate that
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it did you actually have objective this functions
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typically the effect what we call executed functions executed functions are
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basically our mental functions which allow us to face novelty
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to please mental flexibility the ability to organise on top patterns to plan a
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phi and this can be pretty strongly affected within post concussion syndrome
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concentration attention of course memory which i've already talked about especially short term memory which of
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course is very annoying when you have to be learning in school and also
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full speed which can be pretty strongly affected in each one with post concussion syndrome
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um so be on post concussion syndrome there are a certain number of
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more severe complications uh and and this basically demonstrates one of they
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is uh which is uh what was initially call is uh
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well dementia put really stick yeah uh which still has that name when it is referred to in terms of combat sports
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which is basically a subgroup of what we call chronic chronic traumatic and careful coffee
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people who have been submitted to repeated concussions throughout their training maybe
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starting in childhood and teenage years and then going into adulthood
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uh and in the long run a run into basically patterns where they will develop dementia
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parkinson isn't a and one of the most famous offers of
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that is used was mohamed are the two uh
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in it is well very well known developed an inch separately sticker and that's probably the best known case
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but there are several cases which have been published size uh
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since standard especially in american football over last decade
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the pair depression suicide is also be instrument to be significantly increased
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the population a battery to have been submitted to repeated concussions
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a second impact syndrome this is probably the most dramatic complication of concussion
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what second impact syndrome if you have a teenager or child on the field who has had a concussion
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seems pretty okay and then he continues to play doh play over the next few hours
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in a certain number of cases if he has a second concussion what will happen
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even if the concussion didn't seem more severe you have massive brain swelling
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and bring it in a and actually in a very high proportion that is
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up to sit up to sixty percent these cases can be fatal
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it's extremely rare luckily we don't see many of these cases i probably so one
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over the last decade but when they do happen of course they're absolutely tragic
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um multiple scroll this uh there's a bit of data for over the last decade and there's
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actually one paper which can happen annals of urology just two weeks ago which shows that
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teenagers that had one to cash concussion during their teenage years
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i have a twenty percent increase and the risk of having multiple scroll as as as adults
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if you have had more than one concussion then you more than double your risk of multiple sclerosis
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so again uh and multiple sclerosis is not frequent but it is not but
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knowing and these are all things that you have to be aware of
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now in terms of management as i said first reaction remove the child from
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the field that's really the first thing you have to avoid the second
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impact is extremely rare it when it happens it zaps you absolutely tragic
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and you have to be able to take match also offer surveillance
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uh if in doubt city not that's basically if there's there's one thing that you
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leave with from this room that's it if an ounce of them out
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it can be feasible rowdy but it can seek medical advice again
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concussion is not benign it should not be penalise the the
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really do encourage their children to see the rupture within the
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next couple of days to basically event planned follow up
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uh uh and also to determine when uh the child can basically return trees usual activities
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because the best treatment for compression is basically physical
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and cognitive rest because if you do continue
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well making then active physically or cognitively during those first few days after the simpsons
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you are going to slow the resolution of the symptoms on your are going to increase their risk
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of developing post concussion syndrome some drum so really put them to rest at least for a few days and when
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are you going to get them to return to physical activity it's basically when they have no more symptoms
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without medication it's good come backs and comes back and says no i don't have my headaches anymore
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he's taking power seats mall three times a day then he's not ready to return to play
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uh there are certain number return to play protocols bridal have to go and talking to going to actually
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you can find them easily on the web a return to cognitive
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activity same thing it's basically guided by cognitive symptoms that
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difficulty here is basically balancing uh and the risk of putting the channel
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back to college inactivity ties back into school or back into
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a vocational training against the fact that he might be missing
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false isn't missing or missing opportunities for new learning
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i'm going to prevention our uh because luckily it is something
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that we can prevent at least to a certain extent
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uh and well as you see it's not all about how that's uh and if it was it
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would be well much simpler i see that one of the elements is rules and regulate
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is i mean clear rules and that has been quite strenuously in well done i ate
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lots of teen games now american football ice
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hockey also soccer football more recently
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the rules for example for heading in soccer have recently been
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adapted by the american uh um soccer of federation
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uh saying that children below the age fifty and uh in training and in competition should never hedge
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until the age of thirteen should strongly limit the number of headings
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education i think that well this is what we're doing today educational professionals but
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also education of families and education of children and teenagers around basically concussion
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equipment does have a role to play and certainly legislation to a certain extent
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now going into equipment and helmets as i said there's a bit
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of paradoxical effect especially in teenagers teenagers are risk takers
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and if you put a hand on their head yeah actually might be more in fine to taking risks that
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uh so sometimes that actually out bounces the mechanical effect of the helmet
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how much technology is also improve here you have a quite recent hamlet which not
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only will dissipate the a linear exaggerations but also the rotation acceleration is
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by the fact that you're basically you have a membrane which can move within the hard part of the helmet
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user recent developments in probably are pretty interesting in terms of head injury prevention
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um and as i said child education at the h. t. need
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a teenage i've meet education this is a canadian canteen
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um around well basically uh what i put the print version begin pointed
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english versions you doesn't once you buy and not invincible this isn't
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an excellent campaign sure basically um censor ties children and their parents around
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the risk of concussion what can be done to prevent church
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how to react to it and also how to return to the and returned to school after the concussion
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um so if you take home message so be on the miss
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that i've talked about what is the reality of concussion
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um first of all um use as i have
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said is a time of learning and development
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and this does not make the brain more plastic it makes the brain more fun liberal as i
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said to diffuse injury to we have to try to take care all these kids brains
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and if the majority of contortions resolve and again this is to the speech a the big picture
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home uh you shouldn't keep showing off sports because well i've what i've just told you
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um contortions to usually result without long term symptoms but you really do have to be careful
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about that minority of children who are going to go into more long term problems
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and the where the cumulative effects not only visible concussions but also
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stop confessional impacts that is within one season as i've said
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uh why should you for uh the the american football or screen not
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have more than two thousand basically impacts on their head per season
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even if they don't have a can cut visible concussion every time the fact that you repeat those blows to the head
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in the long run it while will have an effect on brain biology
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um and finally a smart heads are protected heads in protection
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is not only about how much is also down to
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policies it's down to regulations it's down to education and that is something that we can all do you
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uh and now a couple of resources parachute canada an excellent website
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uh uh well i'm on which you also find a um
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the fires that i showed you earlier on about i'm not invincible a very good side of the
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centre for disease control and this is basically uh the whole book which you can find
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a freely available online was called scores waited concussions and you was is excellent and very
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very comprehensive now maybe coming back to the young man i showed you start with
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uh so he's basically a a junior olympic i'm skating
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champion and you didn't land with his head
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uh on the ice rink use actually in the magic the middle of a very complex figure and he's

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Conference Program

Welcome
Frederic Koehn, President Young Athletes Forum Foundation
Sept. 21, 2017 · 1:18 p.m.
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Opening address
Boris GOJANOVIC
Sept. 21, 2017 · 1:22 p.m.
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Biological Maturation and the Path to Success: Before and After the Fact
Manuel COELHO-E-SILVA, Biological Maturation and the Path to Success: Before and After the Fact
Sept. 21, 2017 · 1:31 p.m.
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Designing pathways to success – part kaleidoscope, part microscope
Jason GULBIN, Designing pathways to success – part kaleidoscope, part microscope
Sept. 21, 2017 · 1:53 p.m.
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Talent ID and Development: Why doing the “right thing” is not always the “best thing
Ross TUCKER , Talent ID and Development: Why doing the “right thing” is not always the “best thing
Sept. 21, 2017 · 2:16 p.m.
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Resistance training during long-term athlete development
Urs GRANACHER
Sept. 21, 2017 · 2:52 p.m.
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The development of aerobic power in young athletes
Grégoire MILLET
Sept. 21, 2017 · 3:15 p.m.
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Fueling the young athlete
Asker JEUKENDRUP
Sept. 21, 2017 · 3:36 p.m.
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Training young athletes: challenges and opportunities
Marco CARDINALE
Sept. 21, 2017 · 4:01 p.m.
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TRAINING THE YOUNG ATHLETE - Q&A
Panel
Sept. 21, 2017 · 4:33 p.m.
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Coaching from junior to the top of the world (Lara Gut)
Patrick Flaction, Elitment
Sept. 21, 2017 · 5:20 p.m.
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Knee ligament injuries in immature athletes
Franck CHOTEL
Sept. 22, 2017 · 7:48 a.m.
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Osteochondral lesions
Franck ACCADBLED
Sept. 22, 2017 · 8:11 a.m.
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INJURIES WITH THE ORTHOPEDISTS - Q&A
Panel
Sept. 22, 2017 · 8:54 a.m.
Back pain in young athletes
Liba SHEERAN
Sept. 22, 2017 · 9:34 a.m.
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Long term sequelae of youth overuse injuries
Mark BATT
Sept. 22, 2017 · 10:19 a.m.
OVERUSE INJURIES - Q&A
Panel
Sept. 22, 2017 · 10:40 a.m.
Concussions in young athletes : myths and reality
Christopher NEWMAN
Sept. 22, 2017 · 10:52 a.m.
Screening for heart disease in sports – nonsense or necessary?
Matthias WILHELM
Sept. 22, 2017 · 11:16 a.m.
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Competitive Sport & Health: hidden issues
Gordon MATHESON
Sept. 22, 2017 · 12:04 p.m.
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Injury prevention programs : The 11+ Kids Project
Mario BIZZINI
Sept. 22, 2017 · 2:12 p.m.
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Closing Address
Frederic Koehn, President Young Athletes Forum Foundation
Sept. 22, 2017 · 6:04 p.m.
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