18 Septebember 2024
FIFA and World Well being Group launch world concussion consciousness marketing campaign
Suspect and Shield will spotlight dangers of concussion and supply instructional sources for everybody concerned at each stage of soccer
Figuring out the indicators and signs of suspected concussion and methods to shield gamers may also help to make the sport safer for all
World marketing campaign is launched in partnership with the World Well being Group (WHO) and supported by FIFA Member Associations
In keeping with the Strategic Aims for the World Sport: 2023-2027 and following on from the announcement at The IFAB AGM in March 2024, FIFA is launching Suspect and Shield: No Match is Well worth the Threat, a concussion consciousness marketing campaign, in partnership with the World Well being Group (WHO).
The marketing campaign goals to boost consciousness of the truth that concussion is a traumatic mind harm and is a danger to each participant on the pitch. It has been endorsed by gamers, coaches and group medical doctors from world wide.
Developed by way of intensive session with FIFA Medical and WHO mind well being consultants, the Suspect and Shield marketing campaign goals to extend signal and symptom recognition amongst gamers, coaches and medical employees, in addition to most people. The marketing campaign highlights that signs might take as much as 72 hours to look and affords steerage on methods to return to play safely following a suspected or confirmed concussion. These tailor-made sources are designed to empower nationwide group stakeholders, skilled golf equipment and leagues and grassroots and beginner communities.
Suspect and Shield will likely be delivered at a worldwide stage throughout FIFA channels, whereas toolkits are being distributed to the 211 FIFA Member Associations for supply at a nationwide, regional and native stage.
“Concussion is a mind harm and will at all times be taken critically. Enjoying soccer ought to be one thing loved safely, by everybody, all over the place,” FIFA President Gianni Infantino stated. “By figuring out the indicators of concussion, by being conscious of the dangers, and by treating a concussion appropriately, you’ll be able to assist to place participant security first.
“A giant thanks to FIFA’s member associations for his or her efforts in launching with us and for following the recommendation supplied by our colleagues on the World Well being Group.”
“Concussion is a public well being concern of concern in any respect ranges of soccer, and plenty of different sports activities, requiring higher ranges of consciousness and motion,” stated Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-Common. “That’s the reason WHO is proud to group up with FIFA on the Suspect and Shield marketing campaign to advertise methods to guard the brains of footballers, younger and outdated, world wide from the dangers of concussion.”
The marketing campaign is constructed upon three principal motion factors for audiences inside nationwide groups, skilled golf equipment and leagues and beginner and grassroots communities.
BE AWARE: Whether or not a participant, coach, group physician, mother or father or carer, it is very important perceive that concussion is a traumatic mind harm and will at all times be taken critically. Everybody ought to know the widespread indicators of concussion in addition to when to hunt pressing medical recommendation.
SUSPECT: Anybody who sustains a direct or oblique affect to their head, face, neck or physique, ought to be assessed for concussion signs. Signs might take as much as 72 hours to current. They embody headache or ‘strain’ sensation, nausea or vomiting, issues with stability, dizziness or being unsteady on ft, distorted/blurry or double imaginative and prescient, sensitivity to mild and/or noise, reminiscence issues (problem recalling the traumatic occasion, and/or occasions earlier than or after), feeling drowsy, confused or unable to focus, sleep issues.
PROTECT: Anybody presenting with a number of concussion signs ought to go away the pitch instantly. A health care provider have to be seen as quickly as attainable and inside 24 hours. The signs of a concussion can change or evolve throughout the minutes, hours, days and even weeks after the traumatic occasion. Some signs require pressing medical consideration. Gamers ought to observe medical steerage on return to play. No match is definitely worth the danger.
Editors notes
Suspect and Shield will likely be accessible by way of FIFA channels in Arabic, English, French, German, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish and will likely be tailored by Member Associations in further languages.
WHO’s work on mind well being: The WHO works with nations to advertise optimum mind growth and performance, neurological well being, and well-being throughout the life course. Key actions embody strengthening insurance policies, service supply, well being data techniques, analysis and know-how, with a give attention to low- and middle-income nations; offering technical help to develop built-in and person-centered approaches to mind well being that prioritise promotion, prevention, remedy, care, and rehabilitation; and selling elevated funding, inter-agency collaboration, and engagement throughout a spread of sectors globally.
For extra data, please go to the WHO official web site.
