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EVENTS

RACE DATE

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Start Time

7:30am

REGISTRATION WEBSITE

https://www.imathlete.com/even...

RACE WEBSITE

https://www.facebook.com/pages...

Entry Fee

$25
$30 Race Day

Location

Markham Park

Address

16001 W. State Rd. 84

CITY

Sunrise

STATE/TERR

Florida

Zip

33326

COUNTRY

USA

E-Mail

Description

2015 Daniel's Dash for Concussion Awareness 5K Run/Walk

Daniel’s Dash for Concussion Awareness is inspired by Daniel Brett, a young man who loved football and made linebacker for his high school’s JV football team on August 24th, 2009. It was also his last day ever playing football. Daniel was pulled out of practice due to a possible concussion. In reality, no one realized Daniel had suffered numerous asymptomatic sub concussive and successive hits to the head while playing football. Even worse he kept returning to play.

Recent studies on concussions, especially multiple “small” concussions associated with youth athletes have shown startling dangers and disabilities from Second-Impact Syndrome to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).
Disabilities from concussions are often undiagnosed; they don’t show up on MRIs, MRAs, or CT scans. But they do show up; from problems with thinking, memory, and reasoning to mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, loss of impulse control, and inability to make value judgments. It’s time to change the rules regarding concussions.

The Daniel Brett Foundation has 3 Focus Areas:
First – ImPACT™ testing for every youth athlete. ImPACT, the first and most scientifically-validated neurocognitive assessment, monitors athletes before, during, and after an injury and provides a baseline for comparison post-injury. It’s reasonable, affordable, and attainable. Yet it is neither fully implemented nor funded in Broward County as it is in Miami-Dade public high schools.

Second – Training and guidelines, adopted county-wide, to educate officials, administrators, athletic coaches, athletes, and parents of the nature and risk of concussions.

Third – Key school board policies and protocols that ensure thorough cognitive assessments for our student athletes post-injury to include follow-up services from physicians trained in the evaluation and management of concussions.
Let’s Make a Difference
Let’s do it for our Broward Student Athletes

Donate to The Daniel Brett Foundation at http://www.active.com/donate/danielsdash2015

THANK YOU!

Other Info

PREVIOUS RESULTS

2014 Results at: splitsecondtiming.com
2013 Results at wildsideonline.net: 5K
2012 Results at wildsideonline.net: 5K

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