From the Spring 2019 edition of BASEM magazine
“It is often forgotten that concussion is a newly defined disorder and only came into existence in its current form at the 1st Concussion Consensus meeting in Vienna (2001) – https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/36/1/6.
Prior to that, concussion was diagnosed in widely different ways around the globe and there was a multiplicity of different concussion management protocols in sport. The diagnosis of concussion was not made on the same basis in Australia as in the USA, or even by two doctors in the same country.”
Read the rest of the article in the BASEM Magazine online edition.