NFL’s Dr. Hunt Batjer, Like NFL’s Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, Contradicts NFL’s (and WWE’s) Dr. Joseph Maroon on Concussion Exam
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August 17, 2011Dr. Hunt Batjer, co-chair of the National Football League’s Head, Neck and Spine Injury Committee, has a new video at the league’s PR website, nflhealthandsafety.com. This supplements an earlier one by Batjer’s committee colleague, Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, which I discussed previously on this blog.
See “Dr. Batjer on Concussions,” http://nflhealthandsafety.com/2011/08/15/eliminating-concussions-from-the-game/.
Like Ellenbogen, Batjer frames concussion evaluation differently than Dr. Joseph Maroon, team neurosurgeon of the Pittsburgh Steelers – member of the same NFL policy committee, medical director of World Wrestling Entertainment, and one of the developers of the leading product in the highly dubious field of computerized neurocognitive evaluation as a tool of “concussion management.”
At the 3:20 mark of his video, Batjer states: “The full [evaluation of a concussed player] … takes about five minutes.”
At the 2:30 mark of his video, “Performing a neurological exam,” http://nflhealthandsafety.com/2011/01/20/performing-a-neurological-exam/, Maroon calls such an evaluation “a relatively two-minute drill.”
As I did with Ellenbogen – who has never responded to inquiries – I am asking Batjer if he will order the Maroon video corrected or removed.
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