Rider concussion in horse sports in spotlight
Horse sport’s governing trunk the FEI joined iv other major sporting entities every bit co-sponsor of the Fourth International Consensus Conference on Concussion inwards Sport inwards Zurich, Switzerland, this week.
The two-day conference, which was held at the FIFA headquarters on 1 together with 2 November, was also sponsored past times the International Olympic Committee (IOC), FIFA, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) together with the International Rugby Board (IRB).
IOC President Jacques Rogge welcomed delegates to the conference via a video message, before the official opening past times FIFA Executive Committee fellow member Michel D’Hooghe together with IRB Chairman Bernard Lapasset.
Delegates tending the conference represented several sports, including football, rugby, H2O ice hockey, American football, Australian football game together with boxing, every bit good every bit equestrian sports.
Allen Sills, a U.S. of America neurologist representing the FEI, was with the speakers at the conference every bit purpose of a panel give-and-take on how professional person squad sports together with federations bring responded to guidelines produced at the previous conference inwards Zurich iv years ago.
“A presentation today past times Paul McCrory from Australian football game demonstrated that the lodge of magnitude of concussions inwards equestrian sport is higher than the incidents inwards soccer together with American football, which tend to have approximately of the focus inwards these injuries,” Dr Sills said later on the conference.
“It illustrates the keen opportunities, together with the challenges, for the FEI to locomote along to educate athletes together with to locomote along to amend our rules together with medical oversight for competitions.”
Dr Sills has been seat forrad every bit a candidate to the FEI Medical Committee. His appointment is expected to locomote ratified past times the FEI Bureau side past times side calendar week together with he volition assist the FEI Medical Committee inwards drawing upwardly guidelines for concussion management inwards equestrian sport.
FIFA’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jiri Dvorak said: “What nosotros are expecting is to educate really practical, simple, slow to usage tools. With such powerful partners similar FIFA, the IIHF, the IRB, the International Equestrian Federation together with the IOC nosotros tin brand a large impact.”
Professor Dvorak called for a minute’s quiet inwards retentiveness of Craig Ferrell, the old Chair of the FEI Medical Committee who died tragically before this year. Dr Ferrell was instrumental inwards introducing changes to the FEI rules on mandatory protective headgear which volition come upwardly into forcefulness on 1 Jan 2013.
“Dr Ferrell was a truthful visionary inwards recognising how of import the upshot of concussion is on equestrian athletes,” Dr Sills said, “and also inwards making certain that nosotros apply the same techniques together with standards to the management of concussion inwards equestrian sport every bit nosotros hit to athletes inwards other sports.”
Peter Whitehead, Acting Chair of the FEI Medical Committee said concussion was mutual inwards many sports. “It is together with thence really of import that the FEI is helping with the sponsorship of this meeting, a gathering of the world’s recognised experts inwards the plain of caput injuries inwards sport. The conference volition upshot upwardly to engagement guidelines for recognition together with management of concussion inwards sport.”
Dr Whitehead, who addressed final month’s International Olympic Sports Federations’ Medical Commission Chairpersons conference held at the IOC Headquarters inwards Lausanne, is totally committed to the campaign championed past times Dr Ferrell together with is determined that his operate volition locomote continued.
Also representing the FEI at the conference were the FEI’s General Counsel Lisa Lazarus together with Catherine Bollon, FEI Legal Department Coordinator, with responsibleness for Athlete Legal Services together with Human Anti-Doping.
Lars Engebretsen, IOC Head of Science together with Research chaired the 2nd session on the management of concussion. “Many of the sports that the IOC is involved with bring issues with caput injuries together with that’s why nosotros are actually trying to seat funding into inquiry inwards this expanse because nosotros are trying to plug this lack of knowledge – that’s why we’re having these meetings,” he said.
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