In keeping with the Strategic Goals for the World Sport: 2023–2027 and following on from the announcement on the IFAB AGM in March 2024, FIFA is launching Suspect and Shield: No Match is Well worth the Danger, a concussion consciousness marketing campaign, in partnership with the World Well being Group (WHO).
The marketing campaign goals to lift consciousness of the truth that concussion is a traumatic mind harm and is a threat to each participant on the pitch. It has been endorsed by gamers, coaches and crew medical doctors from all over the world.
Developed by way of in depth 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 workers, in addition to most of the people. The marketing campaign highlights that signs might take as much as 72 hours to seem and provides steerage on how one can return to play safely following a suspected or confirmed concussion. These tailor-made assets are designed to empower nationwide crew stakeholders, skilled golf equipment and leagues and grassroots and beginner communities.
Suspect and Shield will probably 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 all the time be taken critically. Enjoying soccer ought to be one thing loved safely, by everybody, in every single 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.
“An enormous 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 situation of concern in any respect ranges of soccer, and plenty of different sports activities, requiring better ranges of consciousness and motion. That’s the reason WHO is proud to crew up with FIFA on the Suspect and Shield marketing campaign to advertise methods to guard the brains of footballers, younger and outdated, all over the world from the dangers of concussion.”
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-Common
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, crew physician, mum or dad or carer, you will need to perceive that concussion is a traumatic mind harm and will all the time be taken critically. Everybody ought to know the frequent indicators of concussion in addition to when to hunt pressing medical recommendation.
SUSPECT: Anybody who sustains a direct or oblique impression 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 steadiness, dizziness or being unsteady on ft, distorted/blurry or double imaginative and prescient, sensitivity to gentle and/or noise, reminiscence issues (issue 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 depart the pitch instantly. A health care provider should be seen as quickly as doable 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 threat.
Supply:
The World Well being Group
