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Legal Considerations in Orthopaedic Practice QID: 8714 (SAE07SM.52)

QID 8714 (Type "8714" in App Search)

A 21-year-old collegiate scholarship football player has an episode of transient quadriplegia. An MRI scan of the cervical spine reveals cord edema and severe congenital spinal stenosis. The athlete has aspirations of playing on a professional level and demands that he be allowed to play. The team physician should give what recommendation to the college?

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Do not allow the athlete to return to football.

92%

713/775

Allow the athlete to participate.

8/775

Allow the athlete to play only if he signs a waiver.

28/775

Suggest that the college and atahlete enter binding arbitration.

5/775

Allow the athlete to play with special equipment.

13/775

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Federal courts have ruled that a student-athlete does not have a constitutional right to participate in athletics against medical advice. As long as the student retains his scholarship, the college is under no legal or ethical obligation to allow the student to participate in sports. A waiver would not hold up in court and would not indemnify the college or the team physician against suit. No equipment has been shown to be effective in preventing transient quadriplegia.