Orig. Post January 28, 2015 by Seth Slabaugh, The Star Press | Re-Post January 29, 2015
MUNCIE – The Muncie Community Schools board president told state lawmakers on Wednesday that serious concussions are not limited to high school football players.
“That’s a stereotype,” Robert Warrner testified at the Senate Health and Provider Services Committee in the Statehouse.
Two of the most serious victims of the nearly 150 concussions suffered by MCS athletes in a two-year period were a girl hurdler who tripped and two boys basketball players who collided in practice.
“That young lady missed 12 weeks of athletics,” Warrner said. The basketball players didn’t even fall to the floor but between them were treated at the hospital five times.
And if you don’t think middle school athletes are at risk of head injuries, watch them play basketball, Warrner testified.
“They’re very big on enthusiasm, very big on spirit and very low on skills,” he said. “Watching my granddaughters play basketball looks more like a football scrimmage — a lot of head bumping, a lot of people falling down, not many baskets scored.”
Backed by the Dave Duerson Athletic Fund, Sen. Tim Lanane, R-Anderson, has introduced a bill to apply Indiana’s concussion law to more school sports and to athletes in grades 5 through 8, not just high schoolers.
Eighteen months of records collected by MCS showed that a third of 144 concussions were suffered in soccer and basketball games, Lanane said. Other sports with high concussion rates include gymnastics.
Those records also show that concussions are not limited to high school athletes.
Both Warrner and Sen. Liz Brown, R-Fort Wayne, corrected Sen. Patricia Miller, R-Indianapolis, who chairs the committee, after Miller mistakenly remarked that cheerleaders were not considered athletes.
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Miller delayed action on the bill to give Lanane time to make amendments to address questions and concerns raised by lawmakers, the Indiana Department of Education and the Indiana High School Athletic Association.
Questions included: What about club sports? What about concussions suffered on playgrounds? Will middle schools need athletic trainers on the sidelines? Which concussion training courses should be offered to educate and certify coaches? Should teachers become certified, too?
Lanane remained pleased. “If you take away nothing else from the testimony you heard there it’s that there is a consensus that we do need to start looking at younger athletes,” he said.
Dr. Hank Feuer, a longtime neurosurgical consultant to Indiana University football and the Indianapolis Colts, asked the committee, “What are we waiting for? We know something is going wrong … “
Feuer’s fellow Colts and IU sidelines neurosurgeon Terry Horner testified that the brain is the most complicated and fragile organ in the body. And unlike knees, hips and various other body parts, it can’t be replaced. The brain doesn’t mature until a person reaches his or her mid-20s. And the more immature the brain, the more vulnerable it is to injury/permanent damage and the longer it takes to recover, Horner told lawmakers.
Witnesses also testified that concussions can interfere with a student’s performance in the classroom.
Muncie native Mike Duerson, who earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial supervision/engineering from IUPUI in 1980, suffered a concussion while playing college basketball.
The injury caused paralysis on Duerson’s left side for six months, he told lawmakers.
“Since then, I have been treated for concussion-related diseases in the form of mental health problems and neurological problems,” he testified. He still had a long and successful career in industrial engineering.
Duerson’s brother, Dave, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and an All-Pro NFL defensive back, died four years ago of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He sent a text message to his family saying he wanted his brain to be used for research. On May 2, 2011 research neurologists at Boston University confirmed that Duerson suffered from a neurodegenerative disease linked to concussions.