Doctor urges change in way we treat sport concussions

When it comes to concussion in sport, players lie because they do not want to come off, and team managers lie because they don’t want to take the player off — but the overriding message is “when in doubt, take them out”, an expert in sports medicine has warned.

Tadhg Crowley, medical officer to the Kilkenny senior hurling team, said that concussion was “a difficult thing to diagnose”, and had become very relevant in the context of young teams “who might not necessarily have a doctor present at a match”.