The new law signed by Governor Jerry Brown will will require students who get concussions to stop participating in athletic activities for one week in order to help promote the healing process. It limits the amount of full contact practices per day and per week in public, and private middle and high schools. Any student suspected of having sustained a concussion or head injury in an athletic activity must be immediately removed from the athletic activity for the remainder of the day and will not be permitted to return to athletic activity until he or she is examined by a health care practitioner and receives written clearance to return to that activity.
Having represented student athletes who have sustained serious head injuries while engaging in athletic activities at school, we at the Law Offices of John P. Rosenberg applaud these efforts to protect young men and women in schools, prevent head injuries, recognize them sooner and treat them immediately and effectively.
