Free concussion baseline testing will be offered to student athletes, ages 5 and up, from the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation and UPMC Sports Medicine. The Heads UP Pittsburgh program is a concussion ...

Concussions can occur in many different ways, but they are more likely to occur when playing fast-paced team sports like Australian football, rugby, netball, hockey and soccer. Unlike many other ...

Initial concussion diagnoses would likely be determined through the Standardized Concussion Assessment Tool at the time of the incident. Walt Whitman football coach Jim Kuhn said a major benefit of ...

1 Department of Community Health and Family Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA 2 Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA 3 Department of ...

Here’s a heads-up. UPMC Sports Medicine and the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation have teamed up to bring the HeadsUP Pittsburgh program to the UPMC Wellness Center at the Wilfred R. Cameron Pavilion in ...

Participants Sixty-two professional male ice hockey players (mean age=22.5, SD=3.2) completed a preseason baseline test twice over a two-week interval. Half of the players were tested by the same ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – A Green Bay family is turning unimaginable loss into a mission to better protect young athletes from the long-term effects of concussions. David and Sandy Kruse say their son, ...

BEND, OR – The Center Foundation is pleased to announce its upcoming Community Concussion Baseline testing date. This program is made possible thanks to generous support of Taylor Development in Bend, ...