{"id":7,"date":"2010-02-12T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/missouri-considers-concussion-sports-law-what-about-wisconsin.html"},"modified":"2010-02-12T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T10:37:00","slug":"missouri-considers-concussion-sports-law-what-about-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/missouri-considers-concussion-sports-law-what-about-wisconsin.html","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Considers Concussion-Sports Law &#8211; What About Wisconsin?"},"content":{"rendered":"Missouri is the latest state to be considering legislation regarding concussions and young athletes.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/hotstories\/6859080.html\">http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/hotstories\/6859080.html<\/a><br \/><br \/>The proposed Missouri law, which targets high school players, mandates that athletes remain benched from practice or games until they get approval to return from a licensed health care worker trained in evaluating concussions.<br \/><br \/>The Missouri law is modeled after Washington state\u2019s concussion legislation, which is named after Zackery Lystedt, a teen who sustained brain trauma after returning to a football game right after getting a concussion.<br \/><br \/>The Missouri State High School Activities Association says athletes shouldn\u2019t get back on the field the same day they suffer a concussion. The group also recommends that players who sustain three concussions in a season should be barred from playing the rest of the season, and not be allowed to return to play until having a medical check-up. <br \/><br \/>The Missouri state association also mandates that athletes who lose consciousness can\u2019t come back to play the same day without written permission from a doctor.<br \/><br \/>There are 3.8 million sports and recreation-related concussion  each year, according to the Brain Injury Association of America.     <br \/><br \/>Wisconsin hopefully won&#8217;t be far behind.  For an excellent local resource on sports concussion, see <a href=\"http:\/\/wisportsconcussion.org\/\">http:\/\/wisportsconcussion.org\/<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri is the latest state to be considering legislation regarding concussions and young athletes. http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/hotstories\/6859080.htmlThe proposed Missouri law, which targets high school players, mandates that athletes remain benched from practice or games until they get approval to return from a licensed health care worker trained in evaluating concussions.The Missouri law is modeled after Washington state\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,20,12,23,22],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brain-injury-attorney","tag-missouri-sport-concussion-law","tag-wisconsin-brain-injury-lawyer","tag-wisconsin-sport-and-concussion","tag-zackery-lystedt-law"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}