{"id":73952,"date":"2011-02-23T02:35:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T08:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=73952"},"modified":"2011-02-24T02:31:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T08:31:07","slug":"deuell-proposes-concussion-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=73952","title":{"rendered":"Deuell Proposes Concussion Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=73953\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73953\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/02\/bob-deuell2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bob deuell2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-73953\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAUSTIN &#8212; State Senator Bob Deuell of Greenville has filed legislation aimed at reducing instances of multiple concussions and long-term brain damage suffered by high school athletes. Senate Bill 835 increases the amount of time student athletes are required to sit out after a concussion is suspected, and requires them to be evaluated and cleared by a special team of medical professionals before being allowed to resume playing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Concussion symptoms can sometimes take days or weeks to develop,&#8221; Deuell said. &#8220;If our students are cleared to play before being properly evaluated, the risk of permanent damage or even death increases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The NFL and the Texas State Athletics Trainers&#8217; Association have become strong supporters of concussion prevention and management measures, and the TSATA assembled a concussion advisory team which included physicians, brain trauma research specialists and licensed athletic trainers, to review the bill and offer recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the help of the NFL and new research, we are finally seeing what the long-term effects of concussions are on teenagers,&#8221; Deuell said. &#8220;In Texas, sports are a way of life and these added precautions are long overdue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 135,000 five to 18-year-olds are admitted to emergency rooms for sports-related concussions, and sports are second only to car accidents as the leading cause of traumatic brain injury among 15 to 24-year olds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8212; State Senator Bob Deuell of Greenville has filed legislation aimed at reducing instances of multiple concussions and long-term brain damage suffered by high school athletes. Senate Bill 835 increases the amount of time student athletes are required to sit out after a concussion is suspected, and requires them to be evaluated and cleared &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=73952\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deuell Proposes Concussion Legislation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 10:32:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73952"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74246,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73952\/revisions\/74246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}