PREP SPORTS: HCS, HMH set to unveil ImPACT Concussion Management program
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Taking a proactive stance to protect its student-athletes and coaches, Hardin County Schools is set to unveil its ImPACT Concussion Management program at a press conference at 10:30 this morning in the Central Hardin High School library.
During today’s new conference, a HCS student-athlete will demonstrate the test and comments will be given by HCS superintendent Nannette Johnston and Hardin Memorial Hospital sports medicine coordinator Eric Oliver.
The program, a joint effort with HMH, will cost $2,250. HMH, which provides athletic trainers at HCS sporting events as well as Elizabethtown Independent Schools, LaRue County Schools, Meade County Schools and Breckinridge County Schools athletic events, will cover half the cost for this school year. HMH will cover a quarter of the cost for the 2011-12 school year.
The HCS board of education paved the way for the initiative at its July 15 meeting when it passed a motion to purchase the program. During that meeting, Johnston said district officials began considering the program after heat-related illnesses in Kentucky spurred closer scrutiny of all types of athletic injuries.
Student-athletes from all three HCS high schools – Central Hardin, John Hardin and North Hardin – will take an ImPACT Concussion Management baseline test. Then, if student-athletes suffer any type of head trauma in practice or in a game, the students will then test their cognitive and motor skills again. Those results will be compared to the results from the baseline test. The difference in the results will determine of the student-athletes can resume competition or should take more time to recuperate.
While northern Kentucky high schools Beechwood and Ryle are also implementing ImPact, HCS is the first district in the state to mandate concussion management for prep student-athletes.
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