Does my teen need to quit sports after three concussions?

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Anonymous wrote:My son is playing rugby and we have a 1 severe or 2 mild then out agreement.

Get him out now.

As an fyi, I have physicians who had a similar agreement but than backed out. They were afraid the kid would start hiding injuries if they knew there was a limit before being pulled/ They still planned to pull the kid given a concussion but didn’t want a number spelled out.

I grew up in a rugby mad nation. So many mothers won't let their kids play rugby now. I didn't go through the effort of giving birth to have my kids' brains messed up by rugby.

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Anonymous wrote:So he's had a concussion at 5, 10 and 15. What kind of parent is ok with this?

You sound nice.

You sound at best, neglectful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids and step kids are not allowed to play any contact sports - football, lacrosse, soccer, hockey, etc.

All concussions are extreme.

Random question but would you let them play baseball? Not contact sport but still potential for injury.

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Anonymous wrote:My child is 15 and has had three concussions in his lifetime. The latest was this sports season. The pediatrician is telling him to quit sports. That seems extreme. They are not extreme concussions. Is this standard practice? The sport is lacrosse.

You suck as a parent.

It is not "extreme"

How do you not know this answer?

Also, he was told to quit all sports not just lacrosse. This was not his normal doctor, hence the lack of instant trust. To the people hurling insults, like this PP, you know nothing about me. I know more about you from your reply than you know about me from my question.

You could talk to another doctor about acceptable sports like cross country. Most people quit lacrosse, little league, soccer, gymnastics, ballet etc by the time they go to college. The goal should be to identify a life long fitness activity that doesn't put him at risk.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids and step kids are not allowed to play any contact sports - football, lacrosse, soccer, hockey, etc.

All concussions are extreme.

Random question but would you let them play baseball? Not contact sport but still potential for injury.

Isn't there a lot of standing around in baseball? It doesn't seem an activity that promotes cardio.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Just catching up on replies. Concussions are not due to the sport. They are over the course of his lifetime and at least five years apart each.

He has his first concussion at age 5???

Not op. My son had his first concussion at 5. He fell and hit his head.

Op, lacrosse is a high risk sport. 3 concussions, even with time in between, means it's time to stop. Don't you trust his doctor?

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Anonymous wrote:So he's had a concussion at 5, 10 and 15. What kind of parent is ok with this?

You sound nice.

You sound at best, neglectful.

You were not responding to OP and you just proved the point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So he's had a concussion at 5, 10 and 15. What kind of parent is ok with this?

You sound nice.

You sound at best, neglectful.

You were not responding to OP and you just proved the point.

OP didn’t note that they were replying and your reply was right after… pretty easy to think OP responded twice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids and step kids are not allowed to play any contact sports - football, lacrosse, soccer, hockey, etc.

All concussions are extreme.

Random question but would you let them play baseball? Not contact sport but still potential for injury.

Isn't there a lot of standing around in baseball? It doesn't seem an activity that promotes cardio.

You don’t know baseball well at all apparently.

OP-
My oldest nephew ended up with 6 concussions as a result of hockey, lacrosse, and skiing. The ski fall was so minor that nobody thought anything of it until he was dizzy and sick later that night. His doctor said it was due to the cumulative effects of the prior concussions.
Anyway, not only did they end his athletic career but they took their toll on his academic life too. Ended up barely graduating high school and could not get close to being successful in college.

I decided if my teens end up with one concussion, team athletics and possibly dangerous individual sports are done.

[Anonymous]

Where’s OP? Without knowing the timing of these three concussions, it’s just speculation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where’s OP? Without knowing the timing of these three concussions, it’s just speculation.

Does the timing matter? It’s cumulative.

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Anonymous wrote:Where’s OP? Without knowing the timing of these three concussions, it’s just speculation.

3 concussions starting from age 5, and 2 more 5 yrs apart (not op just going off the last page)

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Well, I mean track & field or swimming would be great.

You can bang your head swimming colliding with a swimmer coming the other way or miscounting your backstroke strokes into the wall.

You do not know anything about swimming!! No swimmers are not getting concussions.

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My brilliant sister had two sports-related concussions as a young adult and is now a very fit, health-conscious retired doctor. She retired early because she was starting have memory issues that the rest of her 3 siblings do not. There is no history of dementia in our family so it is concerning.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids and step kids are not allowed to play any contact sports - football, lacrosse, soccer, hockey, etc.

All concussions are extreme.

Random question but would you let them play baseball? Not contact sport but still potential for injury.

Isn't there a lot of standing around in baseball? It doesn't seem an activity that promotes cardio.

You don’t know baseball well at all apparently.

OP-
My oldest nephew ended up with 6 concussions as a result of hockey, lacrosse, and skiing. The ski fall was so minor that nobody thought anything of it until he was dizzy and sick later that night. His doctor said it was due to the cumulative effects of the prior concussions.
Anyway, not only did they end his athletic career but they took their toll on his academic life too. Ended up barely graduating high school and could not get close to being successful in college.

I decided if my teens end up with one concussion, team athletics and possibly dangerous individual sports are done.

Agreed that I am no baseball expert, but this article says that there is an average of 18 minutes of action in a typical MLB game, so about 9 minutes for each team over the course of three hours. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/theres-about-18-minutes-of-action-in-your-average-mlb-game/#:~:text=Over%20at%20the%20Wall%20Street,minutes%20of%20actual%20baseball%20action. There seems to be a lot of bench warming and standing in the outfield with brief spurts of activity. The pitcher and catcher get more action I can see.

By contrast, in an hour long cross country race, each kid gets about an hour of aerobic exercise, which adds up to thousands of minutes of activity per race.