TY - JOUR PY - 2023// TI - Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science: culture, ethics, science, policy JO - Journal of medical ethics A1 - McNamee, Mike A1 - Anderson, Lynley C. A1 - Borry, Pascal A1 - Camporesi, Silvia A1 - Derman, Wayne A1 - Holm, Soren A1 - Knox, Taryn Rebecca A1 - Leuridan, Bert A1 - Loland, Sigmund A1 - Lopez Frias, Francisco Javier A1 - Lorusso, Ludovica A1 - Malcolm, Dominic A1 - McArdle, David A1 - Partridge, Brad A1 - Schramme, Thomas A1 - Weed, Mike SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - The Concussion in Sport Group guidelines have successfully brought the attention of brain injuries to the global medical and sport research communities, and has significantly impacted brain injury-related practices and rules of international sport. Despite being the global repository of state-of-the-art science, diagnostic tools and guides to clinical practice, the ensuing consensus statements remain the object of ethical and sociocultural criticism. The purpose of this paper is to bring to bear a broad range of multidisciplinary challenges to the processes and products of sport-related concussion movement. We identify lacunae in scientific research and clinical guidance in relation to age, disability, gender and race. We also identify, through multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis, a range of ethical problems resulting from conflicts of interest, processes of attributing expertise in sport-related concussion, unjustifiably narrow methodological control and insufficient athlete engagement in research and policy development. We argue that the sport and exercise medicine community need to augment the existing research and practice foci to understand these problems more holistically and, in turn, provide guidance and recommendations that help sport clinicians better care for brain-injured athletes.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 0306-6800 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme-2022-108812 ID - ref1 ER -