Para athlete concussion care following the Amsterdam 2022 International Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport: an urgent need for inclusivity within concussion research (2024)

Para athlete concussion care following the Amsterdam 2022 International Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport: an urgent need for inclusivity within concussion research (1)

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Para athlete concussion care following the Amsterdam 2022 International Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport: an urgent need for inclusivity within concussion research

  1. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6216-839XRichard Weiler1,2,3,4,
  2. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2616-4797Kristine Dalton5,
  3. Anna Guenther5,6,
  4. Katelyn Mitchell7,
  5. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1434-3659Peter Van de Vliet8,
  6. Shelina Babul9,
  7. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8568-1009Cheri Blauwet10,
  8. David Clarke11,12,
  9. Jenny Dea13,
  10. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8879-177XWayne Derman14,15,
  11. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9499-6691Carolyn Emery16,
  12. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9524-7553Kristina Fagher17,
  13. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0126-4177Vincent Gouttebarge18,19,20,
  14. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7190-0004Mohammad Nadir Haider21,
  15. Tamerah Hunt22,
  16. Kenneth Lee23,
  17. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5294-3332Jan Lexell17,
  18. Ryan N Moran24,
  19. Francine Pilon25,
  20. Francois Prince26,27,28,
  21. Phoebe Runciman14,
  22. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1995-4106Racheal Smetana29,
  23. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9227-8234Evert Verhagen1,
  24. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3636-5557Nick Webborn12,30,
  25. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1439-0076Osman Hassan Ahmed4,31,32
  1. 1Amsterdam Collaboration on Health & Safety in Sports, Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  2. 2Institute Sport, Exercise and Health, Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, UCL, London, UK
  3. 3Fortius Clinic, London, UK
  4. 4The Football Association, Burton-upon-Trent, UK
  5. 5School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  6. 6Department of Kinesiology, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
  7. 7Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  8. 8Immune-Oncological Centre Cologne, Cologne, Germany
  9. 9Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  10. 10Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
  11. 11University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
  12. 12Paralympics GB, London, UK
  13. 13Alpine Canada Alpin, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  14. 14Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
  15. 15International Olympic Committee Research Centre, Stellenbosch, South Africa
  16. 16Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology and Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  17. 17Rehabilitation Medicine Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
  18. 18Section Sports Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
  19. 19Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Musculoskeletal Health, Sports, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  20. 20Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  21. 21Department of Orthopaedics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
  22. 22Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA
  23. 23Spinal Cord Injury/Disorder, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  24. 24Department of Health Science, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
  25. 25Department of Kinesiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  26. 26Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  27. 27Institut national du sport du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  28. 28Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur Research Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  29. 29Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
  30. 30School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
  31. 31Physiotherapy Department, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, Poole, UK
  32. 32School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Richard Weiler; rweiler{at}doctors.org.uk

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    Introduction

    The Amsterdam 2022 International Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport (6th International Conference on Concussion in Sport) was the first Concussion in Sport Group (CISG) consensus to consider the para athlete.1 To date, a lack of research in para sport on most aspects of concussion has prevented the development of evidence-informed consensus on any aspects of concussion care for para athletes, resulting in a reliance on expert opinion.2 3 Prior to 2023, all CISG guidelines used the default that athletes all have ‘normal’ cognitive and neuromuscular (central and peripheral) functions. This default is not representative of the global population, and discounts para athletes who have impairments with wide heterogeneity, which may be visible or invisible.

    In 2021 the Concussion in Para Sport (CIPS) group, an international, voluntary, multidisciplinary group of para concussion-focused clinicians, researchers and athletes published the first position statement on concussion in para sport, which built on the 2017 CISG Consensus Statement.4 The prospective International Paralympic Committee injury and illness surveillance studies started in 2012, and while concussions were reported at the Pyeong Chang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games (n=4),5 the first detailed concussion information was reported for the Tokyo 2020 (n=9) and Beijing 2022 (n=4) Paralympic Games.6 7

    Following publication of the Amsterdam 2022 Consensus on Concussion in Sport, the CIPS group present this editorial to (1) highlight that the guidance outlined in the first CIPS Position Statement can be adapted and applied to this most recent Amsterdam 2022 Consensus Statement …

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    • X @cattonline, @CheriBlauwetMD, @wderman, @CarolynAEmery, @KristinaFagher, @vgouttebarge, @jan.lexell, @Evertverhagen, @SportswiseUK, @osmanhahmed

    • Contributors Editorial concept by RW. Discussion and planning of content and structure at online CIPS meeting. Main writing group RW, KD, AG, KM, PVdV and OHA met online to bring together and draft the sections in three groups (two for each section). Figure design by AG with KM and feedback from writing group and then CIPS group at several meetings and online. Content was then discussed, reviewed and refined by CIPS group at two online meetings and via email. All authors then provided feedback on consequent drafts until agreement reached on published version of manuscript. All authors meet ICMJE authorship criteria. RW is guarantor.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests RW provides consultancy on sports medicine and brain health to AI Nexus Healthcare. CB is a member of BJSM editorial board and receives funding from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research. WD is a member of BJSM editorial board and chair of the IPC Medical Committee. CE is a member of BJSM editorial board and holds funding from NFL Play Smart Play Safe Programme, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, World Rugby, Canada Research Chairs Programme, Canada Foundation for Innovation, and is a member of the CISG. KF is a member of the BMJ Open SEM editorial board. JL is editor for the Para Sport and Paralympic Sport Section, American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AJPMR) and Medical Director at Hermelinen Sports Concussion Centre, Luleå, Sweden. MNH is a paid statistician for BlinkCNS, was previously a paid statistician for Oculogica and provides statistics consultancy to industry. EV is editor-in-chief for BMJ Open SEM. NW is a member of UK Concussion Prevention Network Advisory Group. OHA is a member of BJSM and BMJ Open SEM editorial boards.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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