Sports Head Injuries

[DJackson]

There has been an increased interest in and attention to head injuries associated with a number of popular sports. If I have an athlete with a minor head injury, she is out of gym/sports for 2 weeks. If it is her second head injury, she is out for the season, 3-4 months. If she has a third head injury, she is out of gym/sports until cleared by a neurologist. How does everyone else handle this?

-David Jackson, MPAS, RPA-C

[eejjrr]

Good to see you here David!!! We always recommend to our snowboarders that they use some type of wrist guards, much like the ones sold for inline skaters/skateboarders, however there are plenty of Snowboarder gloves with wrist protectors built right into them! See here for an example: http://www.snowboardsecrets.com/flexmeter.htm

Hope all is well at GFH!!!!