{"id":3040,"date":"2014-11-01T00:57:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T23:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2014-11-01T00:57:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T23:57:42","slug":"fitzpatrick-new-concussion-protocols-huge-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/fitzpatrick-new-concussion-protocols-huge-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitzpatrick: New concussion protocols a huge positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/declan-fitzpatrick-rugby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/declan-fitzpatrick-rugby.jpg\" alt=\"declan fitzpatrick rugby\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/declan-fitzpatrick-rugby.jpg 640w, https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/declan-fitzpatrick-rugby-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nInternational tight-head Declan Fitzpatrick has lifted the lid on the injury nightmare which followed a blow to the head in an international game two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick developed \u2018concussion syndrome\u2019 following the knock and admitted he had become \u201ca bit depressed\u201d as he attempted to regain his form for province and country.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick, who will start Ulster\u2019s Pro12 clash against Dragons this weekend, believes new medical protocols to deal with head traumas are a huge positive for player welfare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnocks are obviously part and parcel of the game,\u201d said Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve just been very unfortunate with the injuries I had, which had me out of the game for a long time. The two significant concussions were obviously the main problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a couple of bangs in succession, and to be honest, I didn\u2019t rest fully,\u201d admits Fitzpatrick who has won seven caps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was all about me wanting to play for Ireland. The first knock I got was while playing in the November series and I thought there was a lot of pressure on me to play as I was sort of breaking through then&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. see more at :- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/rugby\/fitzpatrick-new-concussion-protocols-a-huge-positive-295346.html\">http:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/rugby\/fitzpatrick-new-concussion-protocols-a-huge-positive-295346.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International tight-head Declan Fitzpatrick has lifted the lid on the injury nightmare which followed a blow to the head in an international game two years ago. Fitzpatrick developed \u2018concussion syndrome\u2019 following the knock and admitted he had become \u201ca bit depressed\u201d as he attempted to regain his form for province and country. Fitzpatrick, who will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[658,1475,1477,157,1478,1476],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","tag-concussion","tag-fitzpatrick","tag-huge","tag-new","tag-positive","tag-protocols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}