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Lucas Bergvall

Credit to the medical team to stand their ground under the pressure of taking him off that early in the game. Seen some claims online that he overplayed it and that’s why he got so upset when taken out of play, but really seems to been a serious knock to the head.
 
Have to question the Swedes why they wanted him travel in the first place if there were any doubts about his recovery from concussion, I know players don't travel third class but I have never found airports or plane travel relaxing.
 
SirPercyHotspur said:
Have to question the Swedes why they wanted him travel in the first place if there were any doubts about his recovery from concussion, I know players don't travel third class but I have never found airports or plane travel relaxing.
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My guess is that there is a concussion protocol where he had to wait until Day X to do the intense training. That was whilst on international duty so club and country agreed the plan. Obviously, if there had been on problems he would have been fit to play for his country.

I have no problem with this proactive stuff. What I do have a problem with is coercion from clubs on their players not to play for their countries.
 
This is from the NHS website on concussion, looks like NHS advice is different to sporting bodies.

The minimum time someone should take to return to normal life and sport is 21 days.
 
SirPercyHotspur said:
This is from the NHS website on concussion, looks like NHS advice is different to sporting bodies.

The minimum time someone should take to return to normal life and sport is 21 days.
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There is a dad at my lads football who is a physio and worked at a few semi pro clubs at Non league level who now works at a private hospital. He said to me that the GP's, NHS etc always over shoot the recovery time (we were talking about my lad who had broken his wrist at the time) and it is more so to cover themselves. He reckons sports injuries are different and are looked at differently by sports medical teams and 9/10 players are told by hospitals that they cannot play football for x amounts of weeks and the team physios / medical team will tell them its nonsense and that they can play earlier. They apparently hate when players go to hospital as although they need them to go to get the x ray etc, the advice is wrong in their opinion. Obviously both sides will say they are right but it kind of makes sense that the NHS will give you the worst case just to be 100% sure even if they are fine 3 or 4 weeks before.
 
Yiddo said:
There is a dad at my lads football who is a physio and worked at a few semi pro clubs at Non league level who now works at a private hospital. He said to me that the GP's, NHS etc always over shoot the recovery time (we were talking about my lad who had broken his wrist at the time) and it is more so to cover themselves. He reckons sports injuries are different and are looked at differently by sports medical teams and 9/10 players are told by hospitals that they cannot play football for x amounts of weeks and the team physios / medical team will tell them its nonsense and that they can play earlier. They apparently hate when players go to hospital as although they need them to go to get the x ray etc, the advice is wrong in their opinion. Obviously both sides will say they are right but it kind of makes sense that the NHS will give you the worst case just to be 100% sure even if they are fine 3 or 4 weeks before.
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Every case must be different, some probably get over it quicker than others depending on the severity , as he failed the tests by the Swedes Lucas hasn't. There are FA guidelines about recovery but doesn't seem to set down any specific timeline just a process of recovery.

www.bbc.co.uk

Premier League: What are the rules on concussion and substitutes?

Our Ask Me Anything Team look at what the Premier League's rules are on head injuries and concussion.
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SteveAWOL said:
Better safe than sorry, as what happened with Vertonghen

www.bbc.co.uk

Jan Vertonghen: Concussion hit me for months, says ex-Tottenham defender

Former Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen says he felt the effects of a concussion he sustained playing for Spurs for the following nine months.
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Absolutely. From what I've heard the worst damage can be if a player gets another blow after not having sufficiently recovered.

How we apparently dealt with few Vertonghen situation is a shame on the club, hopefully not to be repeated.
 
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