Consistent with the Strategic Aims for the International Sport: 2023–2027 and following on from the announcement on the IFAB AGM in March 2024, FIFA is launching Suspect and Shield: No Match is Definitely worth the Threat, a concussion consciousness marketing campaign, in partnership with the World Well being Group (WHO).
The marketing campaign goals to boost consciousness of the truth that concussion is a traumatic mind harm and is a danger to each participant on the pitch. It has been endorsed by gamers, coaches and crew medical doctors from world wide.
Developed via intensive session with FIFA Medical and WHO mind well being specialists, the Suspect and Shield marketing campaign goals to extend signal and symptom recognition amongst gamers, coaches and medical workers, in addition to most people. The marketing campaign highlights that signs might take as much as 72 hours to look and gives steerage on tips on how to return to play safely following a suspected or confirmed concussion. These tailor-made sources are designed to empower nationwide crew stakeholders, skilled golf equipment and leagues and grassroots and novice communities.
Suspect and Shield can be delivered at a world stage throughout FIFA channels, whereas toolkits are being distributed to the 211 FIFA Member Associations for supply at a nationwide, regional and native stage.
“Concussion is a mind harm and may at all times be taken severely. Enjoying soccer must be one thing loved safely, by everybody, all over the place,” FIFA President Gianni Infantino stated. “By understanding the indicators of concussion, by being conscious of the dangers, and by treating a concussion appropriately, you’ll be able to assist to place participant security first.
“A giant thanks to FIFA’s member associations for his or her efforts in launching with us and for following the recommendation supplied by our colleagues on the World Well being Group.”
Concussion is a public well being situation of concern in any respect ranges of soccer, and lots of different sports activities, requiring higher ranges of consciousness and motion. That’s the reason WHO is proud to crew up with FIFA on the Suspect and Shield marketing campaign to advertise methods to guard the brains of footballers, younger and previous, world wide from the dangers of concussion.”
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-Normal
The marketing campaign is constructed upon three most important motion factors for audiences inside nationwide groups, skilled golf equipment and leagues and novice and grassroots communities.
BE AWARE: Whether or not a participant, coach, crew physician, guardian or carer, it is very important perceive that concussion is a traumatic mind harm and may at all times be taken severely. Everybody ought to know the widespread indicators of concussion in addition to when to hunt pressing medical recommendation.
SUSPECT: Anybody who sustains a direct or oblique affect to their head, face, neck or physique, must be assessed for concussion signs. Signs might take as much as 72 hours to current. They embody headache or ‘stress’ sensation, nausea or vomiting, issues with steadiness, dizziness or being unsteady on toes, distorted/blurry or double imaginative and prescient, sensitivity to gentle and/or noise, reminiscence issues (problem recalling the traumatic occasion, and/or occasions earlier than or after), feeling drowsy, confused or unable to focus, sleep issues.
PROTECT: Anybody presenting with a number of concussion signs ought to depart the pitch instantly. A health care provider have to be seen as quickly as potential and inside 24 hours. The signs of a concussion can change or evolve throughout the minutes, hours, days and even weeks after the traumatic occasion. Some signs require pressing medical consideration. Gamers ought to observe medical steerage on return to play. No match is definitely worth the danger.
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