The NFL has requested Dr. Joseph Maroon to perform a standard post-concussion neurological evaluation.  See Video Link

Testing helps change the game on youth concussions
Erik Brady, USA TODAY, May 27, 2011

The ImPACT tests are one tool doctors and athletic trainers can use to tell when it is safe to return to the field. That’s crucial because a second concussion when not fully healed from a first one is dangerous.

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Baseline Testing for Concussions Gains Popularity
By Catherine Liewen, January 2011

This article is a nice review of ImPACT concussion testing and its usage.

 Lovell and neurosurgeon Joseph Maroon developed the test in the early 1990s while working with the Pittsburgh Steelers. “I got involved with the Steelers about 20 years ago, and quickly realized that there was nothing in place in sports with regard to making these difficult decisions about when somebody could actually return after being injured,” Lovell says.

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 April 2011

Dr. Joseph Maroon, professor and vice chairman of the department of neurological surgery was recently the guest of honor of the neurology and neurosurgical societies of the Dominican Republic.  Held in Santo Domingo, over 500 participants from many countries in South America presented clinical and research papers on innovative approaches to diseases of the brain and spine.  

Dr. Maroon gave two presentations.  He presented data on the management of cerebral concussion and specifically discussed the 1.75 million athletes now screened with the ImPACT testing system.  This program was jointly developed by Dr. Maroon and Dr. Mark Lovell, a neuropsychologist also at the University of Pittsburgh.  

His second talk was on epigenetics and longevity—how to live a longer and healthier life.  Dr. Maroon presented information from his book, The Longevity Factor.  He spoke on how nutritional factors, exercise, the avoidance of environmental toxins and stress impact our genes and directly our health and longevity. 

The conference was dedicated to Dr. Jose Joaquin Puello, a fellow trainee of Dr. Maroon’s at Oxford University in England and the second neurosurgeon for the entire island that includes Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

AARP The Magazine -April 2011- has published an article on seven foods that have pain relieving abilities.  Dr. Maroon is interviewed for the article about the use of omega-3 Fish oil.

 ”We found we could substitute fish oil in place of drugs — an anti-inflammatory with no side effects in place of pharmaceuticals with side effects,” says Joseph C. Maroon, M.D.,

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