Personal Injury Law

Sarah Jane Brain Foundation Founder Speaks to Congress

By Bruce Stern

The United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary hosted a forum entitled, "Head and Other Injuries in Youth, High School, College and Professional Football" Monday, February 1, 2010, in Houston, Texas. Patrick Donohue, founder of the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation, participated as a panelist at this forum.

Mr. Donohue described the Super Bowl week announcement in Miami which launched the Zackery Lystedt Brain Project (ZLBP). The mission of ZLBP is to advance the core principles established in the Zackery Lystedt Law through public awareness, education and training, legislation and advancing research in the field of sports concussion evaluation and management. This will be a joint effort with the American College of Sports Medicine which is the world's largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world.

The three core principles of the Zackery Lystedt Brain Project are:

1. educate and verify that every youth athlete, their parents, coaches and other professionals involved in the care of the youth athlete are taught the risks associated with concussions and head injuries;
2. identify and protect the youth athlete that once a concussion is suspected they would be immediately removed from play or practice; and
3. properly evaluate before return to play by a licensed healthcare provider who is trained in concussion evaluation and management.

Full post as published by Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog on February 09, 2010 (boomark / email).