Concussion in sports — from “summary and agreement statement of the second international conference” —

Abstract

Back ground: There have been few Japanese literatures or textbooks about the assessment and management of sports-related concussion. The 2nd international conference on concussion in sport was held at Prague in 2004, and the summary and agreement of this meeting was published in many major journals.

Purpose: The authors intended to introduce and summarize the concept of “Summary and agreement of the 2nd international conference on concussion in sport, Prague 2004”. SCAT (Sport concussion assessment tool) was also translated into Japanese in order to distribute to many sports-related fields.

Summary: Back ground issues, a new classification of concussion in sport, clinical issues, investigational issues, concussion management, and other issues were summarized. The SCAT card was found to have some parts which are supposed be modified for adopting in Japanese sport field.

Conclusions: Many issues of sport concussion as well as revised SCAT card should be continually announced and/or distributed to medical doctors, other medical staffs, and coaching staffs in order to promote higher standard of care.