Starting this Friday (17), through a partnership between CUIDAR and Ubrain, Clube de Regatas do Flamengo will implement the internationally used concussion protocol. The club is a pioneer in implementing the program that monitors the brain and creates a database of Flamengo athletes, from youth to professional. This information will be used as a clinical tool for treatment and support in returning to sport after concussion. The protocol will also be essential in exploring the athlete's potential for training guidance, with the goal of improving performance and preventing injuries. 

Concussion is an extremely common injury in contact sports. Epidemiological data on injuries from the 2004 Olympic Games showed that the most prevalent site of injury was the head (21%), followed by the ankle and knee (13% each). 

In the US, concussion protocols are implemented in schools, high school and college sports leagues, and professional leagues. The programs are based on preseason assessments, computerized cognitive testing, and training for professionals, athletes, and parents. In the world's major leagues, such as the NFL, NBA, NHL, MBL, and the US Soccer Federation, all teams are required to administer computerized cognitive testing in the preseason and use it as one of the criteria for selection. decision to return to sport after concussion. 

Clube de Regatas do Flamengo will be the pioneer club in Brazil to adopt a control program, based on recommendations from FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, and could be a pioneer in the use and investigation of correlations between cognitive performance and

sports performance and its implications for improving performance and preventing injuries.

The program will be launched this Friday, May 17, with the training of several Mais Querido professionals over two days. 

The inaugural lecture was restricted to the press and guests and was attended by the Vice President of Olympic Sports, Delano Franco; the Director of the Department, Marcelo Vido; the Manager of CUIDAR, Izabel Miranda; and the Medical Coordinator of the Center, Cláudio Cardone.

Training and qualification of coaches, doctors, physiotherapists and others

healthcare professionals

Theoretical Themes

-Cerebral Concussion – from preseason to field detection

-Concussion Management Program

-Use of cognitive testing in the concussion program

-Use of computerized cognitive tests and their applications in performance

-Use of computerized cognitive tests for other purposes (memory deficits, ADHD, other diseases)

Practical Topics

-Use and application of the Ubrain system

-Athlete registration

-Test application

-Application of questionnaires

-Application of scripts

Training and qualification of doctors and physiotherapists

- Diagnosis of concussion

- Clinical tools, specific tests

- Differential diagnosis

- Care in the first 24 hours for moderate and severe TBI

- Classification of types of clinical presentation of cerebral concussion

- Clinical and drug treatment of cerebral concussion

- Concussion rehabilitation

- Application of cognitive tests and post-concussion interpretation

- Decision to return to sport for concussion with clinical and cognitive evaluation

- Use of computerized cognitive tests as screening for other neurological pathologies

Application of cognitive tests to contact sports athletes