Participants will walk away with templates and guidance on properly completing medical forms required by schools for children to return to school and employees to return to work as well as return to sports.
(1) Serve as ?Concussion Champions? at each respective clinic and be current on concussion management for children and young adults, ages 5-25 (2) Relate the risks and benefits of sports participation to families, including the relative risks for concussion in different sports, recreational activities and different conditions (3) Use a multimodal clinical concussion assessment test battery that may include symptoms, cognition (including computerized testing), balance, reaction time and number reading (4) Develop an individualized management plan for youths with concussion, including return to school, return to physical activity and return to contact risk (5) Relate to families the potential risks of repetitive concussions based upon peer-reviewed publications and yet also be aware of current information circulated through the media (6) Appropriately refer complex patients, initiate proper treatment, and understand circumstances for recommending retirement from a particular sport
