MAC Alliance promotes baseline testing of all students grades 6th through 12th whether or not these children are athletes." — Dr. Vincent E. Schaller, M.D. DABFM, CIC, Director of MAC Alliance

Concussion Baseline Testing, Diagnosis and Care for Your Athletes

Baselines Sports School

We are proud at MAC Alliance to be a part of athletes’ brain health plan, from baselining to customized recovery programs and therapy, should they become injured. Any athletes, regardless of gender or sport, are susceptible to concussions.

MAC Alliance’s Baseline Testing Program

MAC Alliance currently partners with school systems and sports clubs throughout the Mid-Atlantic region to provide free baseline testing for students. This program uses one or a combination of our top brain health tests including, EyeGuide, Creyos Health, and ImPACT.

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Diagnosing Head Injuries with Baseline Screening

Baselines allow MAC providers to have a record of an individual’s healthy brain function when not injured. Due to sports and extracurricular activities increasing the likelihood of concussion injuries, we offer special baseline programs to schools and sports clubs as a way to proactively protect athletes and students. Think of baselines as an insurance of sorts that if a head injury were to occur, there is a personalized test to compare to the post-injury test results. When properly interpreted, the post-injury follow-up tests help healthcare practitioners understand what sorts of individual results can be expected so that possible traumatic brain injury (TBI) symptoms are not overlooked.

Athletes Need Proper and Prompt Concussions and TBIs Diagnosis

Too often kids’ concussion symptoms go undertreated or under diagnosed, which is not surprising when you consider how hard concussions can be to spot even in an emergency room setting. CT scans, which are often ordered in ERs when patients come in with head injuries, cannot access concussions. MAC Alliance is a dedicated concussion and brain injury practice, and we have a wide array of testing devices to access patients, including concussion eye tests, neurocongnative tests and EEG-based screening tools. Because of this, we can offer patients a more complete picture of their overall brain health.

Treating Concussions at MAC Alliance

MAC Alliance specialists see many athletes with head injuries. With our expertise and seeing over 12,000 concussion patients in our practice, we will provide the best care and knowledge on treating your concussion. Our expansive regional network of highly experienced doctors and medical professionals expertly treat concussions, from evaluation to treatment, and including support and follow-up care. We implement the same clinically validated concussion assessment and recovery programs used by all professional sports leagues in the United States, and we utilize the very best non-invasive advanced concussion technology.

Increased Accessibility to Student Brain Health Monitoring with MAC-Cart

Baselines have never been more accessible that with MAC Brain Health Cart. MAC-CartMAC-Cart allows people to take baseline tests to locations outside of concussion clinics, like sports clubs, schools, even the practice or playing field. MAC-Cart contains EyeGuide, ImPACT, and Creyos Health assessments all on one portable wheeled device. The baseline assessment results of any of these tests can then be sent to one of our MAC Alliance specialists to interpret, and they then can come up with a personalized and comprehensive post-concussion recovery plan.

Contact us to find where the closest MAC Alliance partnered facility or MAC-Cart is located to take your baseline!

More About ImPACT

ImPACT concussion testing was developed by renowned neuroscientists. It’s the same technology already used by thousands of high schools and colleges, by the U.S. Armed Forces for return-to-duty decision-making, and by U.S. professional athletic organizations for decision-making regarding safe return to sports following concussion.

See Dr. Michael Collins, from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, explain how ImPACT helps manage and treat patients.

MAC Alliance Concussion Brochure

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