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The GamePlan Film Series
The GamePlan: Managing On-Field Cervical Spine Injuries (2020) — 100,000+ views
The GamePlan: Sideline Assessment for Suspected Concussion (2022) — 31,000+ views
The GamePlan: Emergency Response in Equestrian Sports (2026)
These films have been integrated into sports medical and emergency response educational programs around the world.
Using and sharing these films
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All GamePlan films are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You are free to share these films for non-commercial educational purposes with appropriate credit to The Sports Institute at UW Medicine. Commecial use or modification is not permitted. View full license details.
Motivation
Every sport carries its own unique injury risk. The people who respond on the field to those injuries — whether that is athletic trainers, coaches, emergency medical services, or bystanders — need up to date information on how to respond in sports-related emergencies.
The Sports Institute created The GamePlan Film Series to meet this need. Each film translates current research and best practices into high-quality, scenario-based training for medical professionals and laypersons alike.
Approach
Each GamePlan film is developed with leading medical experts across multiple medical specialties, athletes, sports organizations, and professional film crews, and draws from published guidelines and consensus statements in sports medicine. All films are freely available for educational use.
Our GamePlan films are fully donor funded. Donor support makes it possible for us to continue growing this important educational resource for the public. Make a gift to support future films and TSI projects.
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Our Next Move
Additional films are in development. Please reach out to our team if you would like to support the series, participate, or have a sports safety film idea:
- Mental health crisis de-escalation for athletes (release date 2027)
- Multi-sport advantage (in response to increasing early youth sports specialization) for families and coaches (TBD based on fundraising)
- Emergency response in other high risk sports. (TBD based on fundraising)
Partners
American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), The Distillery, Harborview Medical Center, National Athletic Training Association (NATA), Seattle Fire Department Medic One, UW Athletics, and UW Medicine.