Sports Medicine
Dick’s Sporting Goods to help fund concussion tests
August 15, 2011 at 11:14 amImPACT (Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing) is a computerized 20-minute test which, when compared to a baseline test, can determine whether and to what degree an athlete has been impaired by a concussion.
It was created in the 1990s by UPMC neurosurgeon Joseph Maroon for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and expanded and computerized by Mark Lovell and Micky Collins, neuropsychologists who direct UPMC’s sports medicine concussion program.
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Dr Maroon Interview on NFL Concussions
August 15, 2011 at 11:09 amAugust 7, 2011 – The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register Dr. Maroon and Concussion
What the NFL, what high schools and colleges are focusing on now is No. 1, identifying the concussion when it has occurred, which in the past quite frankly has been overlooked, and No. 2, not returning these individuals until the brain’s had the opportunity to recover.
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High School receives concussion testing software
August 15, 2011 at 11:03 amAug 10, 2011 -
Riverside Junior/Senior High School receives concussion testing software, By Joanna Klimaski, The Times/ Tribune
Student-athletes at Riverside Junior-Senior High School will have access to potentially life-saving equipment this school year, thanks to a new program that provides the school with post-concussion screening.
PACE, Protecting Athletes through Concussion Education, is an initiative launched by Dick’s Sporting Goods to make Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing, or ImPACT, available to 3,335 school districts nationwide.
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High Schools receive Free Concussion Test
August 10, 2011 at 1:09 pmRiverside Junior/Senior High School receives concussion testing software By Joanna Klimaski: August 10, 2011, Article from The Times Tribune Read more:
PACE, Protecting Athletes through Concussion Education, is an initiative launched by Dick’s Sporting Goods to make Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing, or ImPACT, available to 3,335 school districts nationwide
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Woman’s Day Article on 8 Foods That Help You Live Longer
July 26, 2011 at 11:11 amDr. Maroon contributed to several sections of Woman’s Day Article on 8 Foods That Help You Live Longer - July 13, 2011
“Eighty percent of the chocolate we consume in this country is not healthy,” says Joseph Maroon, MD, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh and author of The Longevity Factor. “It’s pure sugar and doesn’t have the flavonoids in it from the original cacao tree and bean.”
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