FYI .....
A player in my U15's suffered a face whack during his Developing Player Programme training recently, apparently it was a hard bang, I'm told it took some minutes for him to become 'steady' again & immediately resulted in a puffy eye above the brow.
The day after, and periodically over the next 3 days he's been vomiting, the morning after it happened the parents took him to A&E who scanned him with an 'OK result' & monitor ongoing instruction. Although the vomiting continued for 3 days the hospital were content provided nothing else changed.
The thing that disappoints me is, His parents left the DPP session without any specific guidance or direction on the subject of 'post' knock concussion handling
They are diligent and aware people parents, who did all this without guidance , TBH I expect better from such a programme
http://www.rfu.com/news/2013/july/news-articles/160713_rfu_developing_player_programme
I heard about the 'knock' from other attendees and rang the parents to ensure they were heading in the right direction, yet no-one from DPP has enquired of the players well being !
Poor IMO.