Very important. This slide shows that we actually had a big success when it comes to managing High School Athlete concussions. In 20072008 academic year, 30 of athletes diagnosed with a concussion return to play in less than seven days which is a violation of return to play guidelines and disturbingly 8 return to play the same day they were injured, that is unacceptable. Look at how things have improved. Last year in 20142015, less than 2 return to the same day they were injured. This is a result of prevention. Not equipment prevention, but education and regulation prevention. Effective prevention in public health, we talk about three legs of a stool, equipment is one piece in terms of concussion, but educating individuals and providing good, strong policy policy based on evidence are the other two legs. I would love to come away from the efforts of this committee, incredibly important efforts, with the ability to do this work at the youth level. Currently, no one can give you this typ
Complete schedule. Next, house hearing on efforts to protect you from sports concussions. Then a house hearing on the government accessing social media is part of background checks for some employees. After that, pentagon briefing pentagon briefing on the fight against isis and a briefing on the annual report on chinas military. Now, to mothers testify before a house energy and commerce a subcommittee about concussions in youth sports. Their sons died after suffering multiple concussions. The hearing also addressed Current Research and efforts to protect Young Athletes from injury. This is two and a half hours. We are on a tight schedule today with votes. The morning and welcome to the oversight and investigation hearing. Were were here to continue the ongoing examination of concussions. The hearing follows an initial table we had in march but we had a constructive dialogue with leading experts on how to address the challenge of concussions. Well focus on youth sports, specifically the
[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] speemac, thank thank you we are going to move right away so we want to give everyone the opportunity to testify. I would like to introduce the witness for the second panel. We have mr. Eugene buddy, well eat up the second panel he has been head football coach at Dartmouth College since 2004. He has implemented non contacted practices. I believe you are also a teammate of of the famous coach from Howard University named tim murphy. He is my twin. My like to welcome doctor andrew gregory. Mr. Kevin of usa hockey, he has 20 Years Experience as a certified athletic trainer now serves as manager player safety at u. S. Hockey. Next mr. Steve, he has served as executive director and no president ceo of la crosse since 1998. Then mr. Terry oneill was the founder and ceo of practice like prose,s mission is to educate High School Coaches on alternative practice regimens. Next, doctor dawn comstock who is asked associate professor Colorado School of
Unintentional injuries to children are a major public health problem. The online social media is a potential way to implement health education for caregivers in online communities. Using WeChat, a free and popular social media service in China, this study evaluated the effectiveness of social online community-based parental health education in preventing unintentional injuries in children aged 0–3. We recruited 365 parents from two community health centers in Shanghai and allocated them into intervention and control groups randomly. Follow-up lasted for one year. The intervention group received and followed their WeChat group and a WeChat official account for dissemination of reliable medical information. The control group received only the WeChat group. Between the intervention and control groups, changes in unintentional injuries (OR = 1.71, 95% CI: 1.02–2.87, P = .04), preventability (β = 0.344, 95% CI: 0.152–0.537, P