PART 1: Unpacking the 12 R's of the Concussion Consensus Statement

Course Description:

• This course focuses on the recognition, reduce, remove, return to learn and return to sport sections of the consensus statement and latest updates.

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Learning Objectives:

• Identify concussion prevention strategies.
• Identify the changes in the SCAT6 from the SCAT5.
• List the steps in the 6^th Concussion in Sport Statement return-to-learn protocol.
• List the steps in the 6^th Concussion in Sport Statement return-to-play protocol.

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Speaker:

• Name: Scott L. Bruce, EdD,ATC
• Title: Assistant Dean for Research for the College of Nursing and Health Professions; Associate Professor/Director of Research for the Masters of Athletic Training Program
• Organization: Arkansas State University
• Bio: Scott has been a certified athletic trainer for 39 years. He spent the 1^st two-thirds of his career practicing clinically in a variety of practice settings with patients from youth to professional and elite levels.  Since leaving clinical athletic training, Scott has worked as an educator and researcher.  His research interests include concussion and their effects upon individuals and clinical prediction rules.  He is the co-Founder of the Delta Concussion Project, a community-based organization of health care clinicians to provide comprehensive education, evaluation, management, and care of concussion for individuals from the Delta region.  Scott is also the co-Chair for the Veterans’ Suicide Prevention Project, an inter professional research group examining the effects of concussion on the mental health and suicide ideation of military veterans.

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