During this season there were several incidents of players who suffered concussion and continued the game instead of being immediately changed, PASP said in a statement and called on players and team staffs to apply the good practice whereby the player is immediately changed and refrains from training for a predetermined period of a few days.
Noting that a player should be taken off the field even with a suspected concussion, the PASP states that "if a concussion is not treated properly, it can lead to long-term effects such as depression, fatigue, headaches" and explains that continuing to play can be fatal.
It also states that symptoms that concussion can cause are confusion, loss of balance, headache, inability to think or remember,
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