#concussion protocol

[icedbatik]

Could an FDA-approved blood test help NHL close gray areas in its concussion protocol?

Chicago-based health care company Abbott announced on April 1 that it has received FDA clearance for its i-STAT TBI cartridge, a blood-based rapid concussion test. Doctors who administer the test would know within 15 minutes whether a player has likely suffered a concussion.

According to Abbott, no NHL clubs use the i-STAT TBI cartridge. When asked in an email if the league would consider using a blood-based test like Abbott’s, an NHL spokesperson did not reply.

From The Athletic, Aug. 2, 2024

[thermodynamic-comedian]

personally i think it'd be an excellent gag if lena's "advice" to gwen just kept getting worse and worse. "lena i can't sleep, everytime i close my eyes i see mr. bonzo" "have you tried banging your head against a wall so hard you pass out" "...please tell me you haven't actually done that"

[iminasportyphase]

gary bettman go fuck yourself

[czarinakanaeva]

Please tell me this isn't true because WHAT THE FUCK

[hardtchill]

“Just from Tobin” ?? What was that card for? Why did she write just from Tobin? 😭 she is a so weird I love her

Lmao, it was some kind of RE thing i think

i can just imagine them sitting at a table signing these things and Chris going "Tobin, you can't just sign your name!" and Tobin going, "fiiiiiiinnee" and that's what she ended up with 😂

[alchemistc]

i wanna start out by saying ive been patiently waiting for a hockey AU on the bucktommy fandom and your Goon fic is everything i have ever wanted, im honestly obsessed with your characterization of tommy

i have never been that big on rpf in the hockey fandom, but i always love reading people write crosby in their hockey aus, also love how you include Hockey Lore TM in the story

so, i wanted your take on the insane 'tradition' (not really tradition, more of a common occurrence) of players playing through injuries specially in the playoffs (I remember that in the 2016 or 2017 cup run, there was more players currently injured on the penguins than not, pretty sure Letang or Daley had like, broken fingers for most of the last round) and how many times Buck had to run away from Hen so he could play, because if anyone is more likely to play through injuries, i'd say is Evan "i-had-another-surgery-instead-of-waiting-for-my-leg-crush-injury-to-heal-naturally" Buckley, or Evan "I-sued-my-job-because-they-wouldnt-let-me-do-said-job-after-said-leg-crush-injury-and-vomitting-blood" Buckley

Thank you thank you! Goon has been so much fun to craft, and I'm loving seeing the hockey fans and the 'what's a chiclet' 9-1-1 fans alike enjoy it!

Personally? I hate it. I think the whole idea of it is fucking insane and detrimental to not only their physical health but their mental health as well. (From the Avs fan perspective, regardless of what we actually know about the Nichushkin situation, the man broke his foot and played through it, likely got addicted to a painkiller in the recovery process, missed a playoff series because of [redacted], had a career fucking year and then sent himself to the Players Assistance Program, came back, had MORE career highlights, and then...failed a drug test in the run up to the playoffs and got himself suspended.

(Another reason players just play through injury and mental health crisis is the Players Assistance Program, which IS ANOTHER MAJOR FAILING OF HOCKEY CULTURE IN GENERAL)

Hell, Landy played through a not-healed-injury after he took Cale's skate to his knee and now he's had two surgeries and may never make another appearance in a game because of it.

(I can't think of the player at the moment, but I remember a cup run where a player was playing with fractured ribs and it was later revealed that if he'd taken a puck or a nasty hit or gone into the boards wrong there was a chance he'd have had a vital organ punctured and likely wouldn't have known the extent of the damage until he'd collapsed from internal bleeding. It didn't happen, but WHAT THE FUCK)

And fans have a tendency to glorify them as gods for 'fighting through the pain' in their quest for the Cup.

As far as Goon goes:

They're all gonna be playing through injury. SInce this is from Tommy's perspective, he's coming at it from two angles - he's the guy who's played through injury his whole career just to keep a spot in the lineup, he's toughed it out and dealt with the numbing agents and the wraps and the twinge that doesn't go away for weeks at a time (and the aforementioned pain killers that eventually prompted him to go to fucking therapy in the first place). He is also the guy who has spent four years unpacking why exactly he did that - how much of it is the culture, how much of it is his own shit and his dad telling him to rub some dirt in it and stop being a pussy, how much of it has just been to prove himself capable of being one of the guys in the room.

There's also Hen, who pushes harder than the other trainers, and calls out the bullshit when she sees it, so yeah, this team probably has a slightly better track record of keeping the guy out with upper body injury out of the lineup for longer than any other team would, but - Buck's not the only one who's learned how to lie about exactly how much pain he's in and how well his recovery is going. He'll strain shit and refuse to admit it, he'll push through on a 'minor' injury unless he thinks playing on it would threaten his career. (He absolutely has NO real concept of how bad an injury actually is, tbh, because like everyone else he's been lying about it for so long he doesn't have an accurate pain scale.)

The tldr of this is that I don't condone it, but the reality is it's so ingrained in kids coming up that it's a reality of the culture and I'm not necessarily gonna shy away from that. It's not a huge focus of the story, but there will be hints here and there.

[thankyouforthememoriesworld]

That one time marine was wearing the same t shirt as gabby after recovering from her commotion, it’s the t shirt in the video where gabby hug alexia and marine when she’s back from the USA so I don’t know if everybody have that shirt or if they actually shared

The link

https://x.com/melou692/status/1793277813358764181?s=46

I'm gonna say it's Gabby's because I can until someone proves me wrong

[my-fall-from-grace]

personally i believe you shouldn’t get punished for defending your boyfriend esp if he’s a goalie

[coffee-at-annies]

Pens keeping cookie in the locker room which is the right choice

[ink-5oul]

I Dropped a mug on my foot in the morning and then later Fell head first into concrete and spent the rest of the day in bed. (Also my art application isn't working so might have to replace my god awful Chromebook)

Buuuuutttt atleast it's a magnus thursday

[starscelly]

day to day always makes me nervous as fuck. but he’s not concussed! so! a win!!

[appropriatelystupid]

Jumping on the sc soccer au to propose: Kara is a player. Lena is a team medic. Lena is the only one who can get Kara to take her wellness seriously because she has the one thing to make Kara feel better when she's injured (kissies).

the team has a whiteboard hanging next to the bench that says “X’s O’d” where they track how many kisses lena has promised during a game (she’s Very Professional and won’t kiss her during a game obvi)

and fans lose their minds trying to figure out what this tally means and have all sorts of conspiracies and try to see if there’s any pattern to who adds a tick to it (there’s not)

the only thing they can say definitively is that if anyone sees kara going for it she’s bodied away from it (it’s another lena rule that kara can’t add any ticks herself) so she has to get sneaky to try and get more smooches

[nolanhattrick]

when 20 year old kids have to retire because of head injuries, you need to reevaluate the safety of your sport and the equipment you're putting them in.

[naritaren]

I just need to make it another 45 minutes and I can finally sleep.

I can do this. I hope.

[reavenedges-lies]

NHL Concussion Protocol:

[falsamoneda]