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Lorenzo Luna

ENGL 1302-231

Dr. Sharity Nelson

9 February 2024

“Going Beyond the State Law: Investigation of High School Sports-Related Concussion

Protocols (2022).” The Journal of Athletic Training, vol. 57, no. 1, January 2022, pp.

32-43. EBSCO,

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Beilder starts off by going into depths of why and how concussions suffered at the high

school level have long term detrimental effects on the youth. Beilder identifies sports

related concussion as (SRC) from this point forward bringing up that technology that

helps in regards diagnosis in recovery and detectability has advanced. The advancement

of said technology is leading to more diagnosis in the high school level and led to a law

being created in 2009. The law started in Washington, but since then had a multitude of

states following and eventually leading the whole United States to having laws related to

(SRC) in some way or another. “Although state laws provide general outlines for SRC

management, they typically do not include specific information to help high schools

navigate the multiple layers of this complex injury.” (32) The Athletic trainer may receive

the most fault as explained by Beilder, as they typically are the personnel in charge of

evaluating for SRC and can receive a punishment from the school district. “For example,

in 1 investigation athletic training staff size was not a predictor of SRC protocol
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compliance among Power 5 schools, in another large survey study,13 more than a third of

respondents (coaches, administrators, clinicians) felt that increasing the sports medicine

staff size would improve SRC protocol implementation at their institution” (33).
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