Karen McAvoy and Tod McKercher - REAP: The Benefits of Good Concussion Management

REAP: The Benefits of Good Concussion Management, with Karen McAvoy and Tod McKercher, provides an overview of REAP (Reduce, Educate, Accommodate, Pace)-a community-based multidisciplinary team approach/strategy to communicate/collaborate with the concussed student/ athlete and multidisciplinary teams (school-physical, school-academic and the medical team), from the time of injury through the return to play and/or return to learning.

 

The video also discusses a progression for team members to follow throughout assessment/sideline evaluation, family communication, medical referral, educate student/athlete, contact school academic personnel, perform daily symptom/balance screening and once asymptomatic supervise gradual return to play/learning.

 

In addition, the videos looks at the four domains of symptomology for assessment and communication with the multidisciplinary teams.

 

Among the topics covered:

• The hidden epidemic
• Risk factor: age
• The history of a multi-disciplinary team approach to good concussion management
• Education
• Removal from play
• Multi-disciplinary team
• The 3 stages of REAP
• Less-than-ideal scenario