The NFHS Sports Medicine Advisory Committee publishes this model release so an appropriate health care professional can document that a wrestler's skin lesion is not communicable. State associations adopt or adapt it, and NFHS Rule 4-2-3 requires current written documentation at weigh-in when a referee or coach suspects a communicable skin condition.
The examining health care professional completes the release page: wrestler's name, diagnosis, lesion location and number on front and back diagrams, medications, treatment start date and time, form expiration date, earliest return date and signature. Each state association decides which professionals may sign.
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NFHS Medical Release Form for Wrestler to Participate with Skin Lesion(s)
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NFHS leaves that to each state association, which determines which appropriate health care professional can sign off. Depending on the state, that may include MDs and DOs, physician assistants or nurse practitioners, so the state association's version of the form is the one to follow.
No. NFHS Rule 4-2-3 states that covering a communicable condition is not acceptable and does not make the wrestler eligible. After adequate treatment, once the lesion is considered non-contagious, it may be covered to allow participation.
For a first episode, the form's guideline is treatment and no competition for at least 10 days, extended to 14 days if fever or swollen lymph nodes are present. All lesions must be scabbed over with no new lesions in the preceding 72 hours.