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Concussion Guidelines for National Development High-Performance Athletes (2018)

This resource provides a guideline regarding sport-related concussions. These recommendations were provided based on Evidence-Based Medicine Levels.
Due to the different settings and rules of individual sports, adoption of these concussion guidelines may need to be done in accordance with their specific regulatory environment.

The following is an outline of the sport-related concussion guidelines that have been established in the document:
  • Concussion Definition
  • Sport Concussion Policy, Protocol and Education
  • Pre-season Clinical Assessment (healthy, uninjured)
  • Concussion Recognition and Removal from Sport Participation for Medical Evaluation
  • Acute Sport Concussion Assessment and Management