30 Aug 2025

Teaching teens and schools about concussion

From Saturday Morning, 7:40 am on 30 August 2025

If you're scrambling around in the laundry right now looking for boots and shin pads, chances are you're off to a kid's sports event but alongside the joys of sport come some things to be wary of - like concussion.

To help teenagers and their schools better cope with concussion, a group of researchers has developed a framework which they hope to use to educate and encourage more reporting.

Project co-lead Professor Gisela Sole from Otago's School of Physiotherapy explains to Mihingarangi how it would work.

Handsome medical doctor in white coat is examining radiograph while working in his office

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