Post by Webster on Apr 22, 2019 18:12:30 GMT
(The Guardian) Is it time for the use of an extra concussion substitute?
Liverpool’s medical team deserve enormous credit for overruling Fabinho, who wanted to come back on the field after a clash of heads with Cardiff’s Kenneth Zohore. Fabinho, who had come on a few minutes earlier, was obviously concussed and had to be replaced by James Milner. The decisive, dispassionate response of Andy Massey, the head of medical services at Liverpool, was a lesson in how to treat head injuries. It’s natural to wonder, however, whether all physios would have reacted in the same way – and particularly how strong their principles might have been if their team had no substitutions remaining and faced being reduced to 10 men in a vital game. Now that football is waking up to the dangers of head injuries, albeit far too slowly, it’s surely time to trial the use of an extra concussion substitute.
Liverpool’s medical team deserve enormous credit for overruling Fabinho, who wanted to come back on the field after a clash of heads with Cardiff’s Kenneth Zohore. Fabinho, who had come on a few minutes earlier, was obviously concussed and had to be replaced by James Milner. The decisive, dispassionate response of Andy Massey, the head of medical services at Liverpool, was a lesson in how to treat head injuries. It’s natural to wonder, however, whether all physios would have reacted in the same way – and particularly how strong their principles might have been if their team had no substitutions remaining and faced being reduced to 10 men in a vital game. Now that football is waking up to the dangers of head injuries, albeit far too slowly, it’s surely time to trial the use of an extra concussion substitute.