This is PediCast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome.

Once again to Pediacast.

It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from nationwide at Children's Hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 501 for September 2nd, 2021.

We're calling this one Concussion Recovery and Return to Play.

I want to welcome all of you to the program. So last week,

we celebrated our 500th episode of PDACast by opening the archive and sharing some of our best

interviews, including ones on food ingredients, the history of the anti-vaccine movement,

and seizures in kids. Today, we begin the journey of our next

500 episodes covering a topic that we have covered several times in the past, but like all of our

recurring topics, we bring it up again and again because it is extremely important. And it's one of

those things where if you haven't thought about it in a while,

or it has never actually happened to your family yet, then you probably don't have all the

details and recommendations within your grasp. And yet, when this condition does come knocking

on your family's door, it's best to be prepared ahead of time rather than scrambling to

figure out what to do after the fact. This week, our recurring topic is concussions, and in

particular, concussions in student athletes. And we're covering them now because school is underway

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