'Concussion conversations promotes collaborative care in rural New Zealand

Background Providing a health service in a rural area comes with its challenges: limited medical resources, reliance on ambulance and rescue helicopter services and, especially in New Zealand, a stoic rugby culture with a fear of missing the next big game! Working in New Zealand’s Tasman region in the beautiful but remote Golden Bay has had its fair share of curve balls for our sports physiotherapy practice. It was one of those challenges that led to the development of the Concussion Conversations programme, aiming to better understand what information is wanted, needed and how it should be delivered to improve community understanding of sport-related concussion (SRC) and its acute management. Context With the increasing awareness of concussion in contact sports, New Zealand sports policy makers have produced some good support information in the form of documents, handouts and videos, all freely available to the public.
Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine - Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Tags: BJSM Service spotlight Source Type: research