Rely on the sports medicine professionals at Expert Medical Care to evaluate your concussion. We can evaluate head injuries on the athletic field, make acute assessments, and stabilize the patient for transport to local hospitals and emergency departments for further testing. We also follow up with you and reassess your condition to determine if you can return to your sport or activity. All our diagnostic tests are reviewed and additional testing and consultations will be provided if necessary depending on your symptoms.
A concussion is caused when the brain is injured by trauma resulting in a temporary loss of brain function. Concussions can hinder cognition, thinking, memory, balance, judgment, or motor skills. There may or may not be loss of consciousness. The hallmark symptoms are confusion and amnesia. Secondary symptoms may develop such as headaches, nausea, vomiting, loss of neurological function, memory loss, dizziness, loss of responsive recall or thinking, or loss of concentration.
Approximately 250,000 concussions are reported in athletes every year, and the occurrences in children in sports from ages 8 to 19 have been increasing. These numbers may be drastically underestimated because a large number of head injuries go unreported or unrecorded.