Finally concussions, and Dr. Bennet Omalu’s battle to uncover the risks of repetitive head trauma, are getting the attention they deserve. The movie Concussion starring Will Smith will undoubtably ...

Concussions are on the rise in our sport. After learning about Oklahoma pitcher Paige Lowary’s story among others, there have been hundreds of serious head injuries and many promising careers cut ...

Sprint Cup Series driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. (88) gets service during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at the Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala., Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013. Earnhardt was ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Eighteen football players focused on the test before them. The room was silent, like during a standardized test, except this test wasn't about selecting an answer by filling in a ...

Robbie Del Castillo, 21, suffered his first concussion while playing lacrosse during his senior year of high school. In the past year, he's had three more. Del Castillo has never taken a baseline ...

Late last summer, Penguins goalie Matt Murray went through the tests to determine his cognitive baseline. In a room with a trained clinician, Murray paired shapes, numbers and images on a computer ...

PITTSBURGH — 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 ...

The baseline test measures several nervous system functions including balance, oculomotor-motor function, and cognitive performance. Typically, baseline tests are administered via a computerized ...

My winter golf rebuild started with a series of baseline tests, conducted by two experts, and I was blown away by the results ...

NASCAR will mandate baseline concussion testing starting next season, the sanctioning body announced Thursday. The baseline test will be required prior to the start of the season in order to measure ...