Teens with sport-linked concussion up 40%

There has been a more than 40% increase in teenagers turning up at emergency departments with sports-related concussion in the last year, an Oireachtas committee has been told.

Emergency consultant at St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin John Ryan said the significant increase was due to greater awareness about concussion in sport.

“I think that parents, players, coaches, managers and increasingly junior and emergency medicine doctors are becoming more aware of concussion,” said Prof Ryan.