Health Happenings
Concussions: Short-Term Play Lost for Long-Term Gain
Milford's new concussion policy has been in effect for six months. How has it panned out for protection?
More than 62,000 concussions are sustained each year in U.S. high school contact sports and the likelihood of suffering a concussion while playing a contact sport is estimated to be as high as 19 percent for each year of play, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Concussions in high school sports are rising at about a 15 percent (and up to 27 percent) annual rate, according to a study published in 2011 by the American Journal of Sports Medicine. Twelve of the top contact sports were studied, finding football topped the list with the highest rates. Girls soccer was a distant second. Sure, some of this might be in reporting, or due to new Massachusetts regulations, but this is still a shocking rise. …
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