Michigan High School Athletic Association Concussion Report - 2015-16
during the
-16
2015
-16 school
year theMichigan
High
School
Athletic
Association
conducted an unprecedented study of head injuryreport
s from its memberschool
s designed to quantify and further reduce future incidents of such injuries the mandatedreport
ing came in from 99 percent of members seniorhigh
school
s and found that for the pastschool
year 4452concussion
s an average of five point nine perschool
or 1.6 per thousand participants took place theAssociation
anticipates that various groupswill study the data to apply to equipment and game rules designed to make competition safer and will also work with the Youth Sports Institute at
Michigan
State University to develop coaches education programming around the results this will allow us for the first time to establish baselines by which will be able to measure our progress year over year in reducing head injuries in all ofschool
sports and it will help us to raise questions that we will seek to get answers from with our researchpartners across the state and perhaps the nation two-thirds of the verified
concussion
s occurred in competition twenty-eight percent of the concussed athletes returned to play in between six to ten days and another twenty percent required 11 to 15 days of rest perhaps most interesting was the fact that head injuries sustained by girls and boys in the same sport had a wide disparity in soccer 30 girls per thousand compared to 18 per thousand for boys in basketball 29 per thousand four girlseleven thousand for boys and softball players
report
ed elevenconcussion
s per thousand four per thousand for baseball we hope to identify the physiological or social or psychological factors that contribute to this disparity andreport
ing of head injuries by boys and girls and we want to use the answers to these inquiries to better prepareschool
personnel especially coaches who may be coaching girls who are overreport
ing or boys underreport
ing in competitive interest clasticathletic
sfootball recorded the most
concussion
s vaalu by ice hockey eight player football girls soccer and girls basketball the collection is already underway for the newschool
year part of a sustained comprehensiveconcussion
care program by the mhsaa it is also conducting the nation's largest sidelineconcussion
testing program and was the first stateassociation
to providehigh
school
participants withconcussion
gap insurance designed to pay deductibles and co-payments left unpaid by otherpolicies we are addressing education and detection and aftercare in unprecedented ways we're proud of what we've done but we're far from satisfied we're going to continually be on the lookout for ways to make
school
sports even safer than they are already for the boys and girls who compete in educationalathletic
sMichigan
was among the first stateassociation
s to adopt a return to play protocol which prohibits further competition on the same day of the suspectedconcussion
andthat only allows the athlete to return with an unconditional sign off by medical personnel it's modified in season football practice full contact policies have been found in one study to reduce head impacts by over forty percent this is John Johnson