Proud to be the official sports medicine providers for the following schools:
- Berwick Area High School - Benton Area High School - Bloomsburg Area High School - Bucknell University Athletics - Central Columbia High School - Columbia Montour Vo-Tech - Coughlin High School - Dallas Area High School - Danville Area High School - G.A.R. High School - Hanover Area High School - Hazleton Area High School - Lake Lehman High School - Lewisburg Area High School - Luzerne County Community College - Meyers High School - Midd-West Area High School - Millville High School - Milton Area High School - Misericordia University - Nanticoke Area High School - Northwest Area High School - Selinsgrove Area High School - Shikellamy Area High School - Southern Columbia Area High School - Susquehanna University - Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins - Wilkes University - Wyoming Valley West High School - Good luck to all the teams we support!
Concussions
 | A concussion is a type of injury that affects the brain resulting from a traumatic impact or jolting of the head. The brain, which is made of soft tissue is forced against the hard surface of the skull bone causing injury to the brain. With this injury symptoms can include: |
- Dizziness
- Headache
- Nausea/ Vomiting
- Loss of consciousness
- Blurred or double vision
- Lack of concentration
- Memory loss
- Lack of coordination
- Agitation
This is one of the main injuries seen in adolescent sports especially football, soccer, field hockey, basketball, and wrestling, mainly because of the impact that is seen to the head in these activities. This injury and/or sympoms should be reported immediately to a Sports Medicine Physician or your Certified Athletic Trainer because of the severity and risk that is associated with this injury. If a player returns to play to soon after getting a concussion before their symptoms are all clear and they sustain another impact to the head they can possible get something called "second impact syndrome" which causes much more severe symptoms or can even be fatal. It is important to remember that this is a very serious injury with possible long term affects if left untreated.
Medical professionals should be involved with the entire process that goes along with an athlete sustaining a concussion. This includes prescreening of athletes; most of the schools affiliated with Geisinger use the ImPACT Concussion system. With this system student-athletes involved in higher risk sports are given a pretest as a baseline to compare to when the athlete does receive a concussion. This tells us how severe the student's injury actually is. The ImPACT system along with a comprehensive physical examination by a physician that has been trained to treat concussions in athletes are the determining factors in when an athlete is ready to get back to their sport. For more information on ImPACT testing click here: http://www.impacttest.com/ .
At Geisinger Sports Medicine, we help athletes with concussions recover with the best techniques modern medicine has to offer. If you or your child sustains a minor head injury, Contact us today for an appointment at our state-of-the-art facility.
Related Concussion Articles or Information
Trainer quoted in article
Gina Marotta MS, ATC, CSCS was recently quoted for a concussion article in the Bloomsburg High School, Online Red and White. Click to read full story.
One hit may be all it takes for concussion
Matthew McElroy, MD, discusses recent head injuries to high-profile NFL quarterbacks. Click to read full story.
