george north concussion 2015
As O’Driscoll puts it: “We can’t be certain, but you have to presume that is what we have in store.”However, O’Driscoll acknowledges that progress is being made. An all-round sportsman who also plays rugby, he was involved in a clash of heads and carried on playing. We know very little about the brain for certain and we have a huge amount to learn but at the moment these players are being experimented on.”North suffered two heavy blows to the head at the Millennium Stadium; the second from Richard Hibbard’s head which left North in a heap on the turf and which was missed by Wales’s medical team, ensuring the wing stayed on the field.It was not, however, missed by World Rugby – as the IRB is now known – Wales’ national medical manager Prav Mathema defended their actions, saying: “In the first incident, George took a blow to the head from an accidental boot. When I arrived at the scene, as it were, he was completely lucid and was conversing spontaneously with me. George North’s ‘concussion issue’ highlights gap still to be closed. If players need to be assessed then that must be suspected concussion and they must be seen by independent doctors and they should be replaced.“The next step we need is to introduce independent doctors and have a rule whereby if you have a suspected concussion, you come off and stay off. I undertook some on-pitch evaluations, and that point I deemed him fit to continue. ADVERTISEMENT There had been much focus on player concussion leading into Saturday’s game in Cardiff with Welsh out-half Dan Biggar being declared fit to play despite suffering his third bang to his head in five months. The problem is that these assessments are given to players with ‘potential’ concussion but the IRB have created this problem. Of course we don’t what to see these things happen but boy has it been roused,” he said.“The national federations have to take some responsibility – the RFU and World Rugby are trying but they need to be backed up by all of the federations. Barry O’Driscoll, the former IRB medical adviser, believes rugby players ‘are being experimented on’ and that the national associations need to take responsibility“These people are playing a new game, a different game and they are being experimented on,” he said. After McBryde had read out a statement about North and answered a couple of questions, the subject was declared off-limits and three further questions, none of which was accusatory or provocative, were blocked. The question that needed to be put to Mathema was, never mind protocols and symptom-free tests, would it not be sensible for a player who had suffered one concussion this season and taken two clear knocks to the head on Friday night to be given a week off from all physical contact, never mind play against Scotland?Less then 24 hours after North was being examined in the Wales dressing room, another 22-year old, Kariym Irving, was playing in a football match in Surrey. The furore that North’s double blow has generated demonstrates as much, as does the speed with which World Rugby acted in seeking an explanation from Wales.“I do have to say that the amount of uproar that has resulted from what happened to George is a good thing. We need independent doctors who can go on to the pitch to assess the players – the tests need to be carried out on the field.”He added: “They have these five-to-10 minute assessments but players with suspected concussions should not be allowed to come back on. The other pitchside medic on the far side of the pitch was also unsighted.“All I saw was George North getting up off his knees. “Had I had that chance there is no doubt he would have been removed from the field of play. When: 20:00 BST, Friday, 21 August, 2015 Channel: BBC 2 Wales Watching George North dealing with the effects of concussion was a stressful experience says his partner, Welsh cyclist Becky James. World Rugby asked the WRU for a full report on the assessment of North. Following that, we attended to him on the field of play, and we weren’t quite sure as a medical team at that point about his diagnosis. I genuinely don’t know why that has not happened yet but the reaction to what happened to George is hopefully bringing it closer.”O’Driscoll paints a worrying picture of uncertain future where parallels between rugby union and American football, where more than 4,500 former players are reportedly close to agreeing a $1bn settlement with the NFL over head injuries. The WRU banked a large seven-figure sum through an interest that was generated by the players. Now, heavier players look for the contact and run straight at opponents and keep going until a gap eventually comes. Errors, whether systematic or human, will never be eliminated, but they can be minimised. Controversy: George North appeared to sustain concussion but was not kept off the field by Wales against England Photo: GETTY By Daniel Schofield 2:37PM GMT 07 Feb 2015 That was deemed negative, so he returned to the field of play.“In the second incident, regrettably I was unsighted at that moment. Watching George after he had returned, his brain activity was not right and that was reflected when his body went completely flaccid,” added O’Driscoll, who left his role with the IRB in 2012.“You have to take the team doctors at their word that they didn’t see it and that seems true because they were treating another injured player but it can’t be left up to the team doctors, they have coaches in their ears.
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