{"id":6872,"date":"2020-09-30T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T15:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.niagaralaw.ca\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:42:00","slug":"rowans-law-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/rowans-law-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowan’s Law Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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University of Leicester v. De Montfort University, Varsity 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The last Wednesday in\nSeptember has been designated in Ontario as \u2018Rowan\u2019s Law Day\u2019 to help raise\nawareness about concussion safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rowan\u2019s Law is named for\nRowan Stringer.  Rowan was a high school\nrugby player from Ottawa who died in 2013 from \u2018second impact syndrome\u2019, a\ncondition which causes swelling of the brain when a head injury occurs prior to\nthe healing of a previous head injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rowan\u2019s Law instituted a\nnumber of different recommendations and protocols to promote concussion\nawareness and athlete safety.  The law<\/a> makes it mandatory\nfor sports organizations to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Ensure that\nathletes under 26, parents of athletes under 18, coaches, trainers, and\nofficials to confirm every year that they have reviewed Ontario\u2019s Concussion\nAwareness Resources.<\/li>
  2. Establish a\nConcussion Code of Conduct setting out rules of behaviour to support concussion\nprevention<\/li>
  3. Establish removal\nfrom sport and return to sport protocol. \n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The provincial government\nexpects that the rules requiring the institution of removal from sport and\nreturn to sport protocols will be in play by January 1 of 2021.  School boards in Ontario were also required\nto bring their concussion policies into compliance with the requirements of\nRowan\u2019s Law as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As has been said before,\nRowan\u2019s death was a preventable tragedy. \nThe passage of Rowan\u2019s Law and the institution of concussion awareness\nprograms and safety protocols should hopefully be successful in preventing the\nmany serious consequences of concussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Daniel & Partners LLP has previously been\na sponsor of the Ontario Brain Injury Conference.  That event provided support, education, and awareness\nof the issues related with traumatic brain injuries.  Our dedicated team of personal injury lawyers\nare committed to ensuring that our clients have the necessary resources to\nrecover from their injuries, however they may have occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Our office offers a free initial consultation for personal injury matters. Please contact us to arrange an appointment as soon as possible after your injury has occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Photo taken by Jim Monk,<\/a> licensed under the creative\ncommons (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The last Wednesday in September has been designated in Ontario as \u2018Rowan\u2019s Law Day\u2019 to help raise awareness about concussion safety. Rowan\u2019s Law is named for Rowan Stringer.  Rowan was a high school rugby player from Ottawa who died in 2013 from \u2018second impact syndrome\u2019, a condition which causes swelling of the brain when a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,12,10],"tags":[23,139,140,141,33,71,53,142,143,144,34,72],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8208,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions\/8208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}