Risk, Responsibility, and Prevention in Injury Management
Kaleigh and Braeden recently published Risk, Responsibility, and Prevention in Injury Management: Implications of Concussion (mis)education on Youth Athlete Knowledge Uptake in Communication and Sport. The paper problematizes the over-reliance on concussion education as a mode of injury prevention and presents primary research conducted with adolescent athletes.
Available as Open Access, the analysis highlights three important domains related to athletes’ experiences with concussion education concerning (1) sufficient education, (2) scare tactics in education efforts, and (3) equity, access, and responsibility. By problematizing education as an effective mode of injury prevention, we draw attention to a gap within current sport-related concussion literature concerning knowledge uptake, education, and behaviour with the social and cultural realities of concussion experiences.
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