• Doctors’ group will remind footballers that non-expert help can be dangerous
• ‘The best thing players can do is to let the professionals do their jobs’
• ‘The best thing players can do is to let the professionals do their jobs’
Premier League footballers are to be reminded to leave on-field emergency procedures to trained medical staff after cases where players have intervened in the belief they are assisting colleagues knocked unconscious on the turf.
The Premier League Doctors’ Group will discuss players’ reaction to injuries, however well-intentioned, at their routine meeting later this month and members will return to their clubs to reiterate the dangers of moving players who have suffered head trauma.
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