The Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation and UPMC Sports Medicine are celebrating the 13th year of Heads UP Pittsburgh. Since 2011, Heads UP has baseline tested over 28,000 young people across 35 different ...

The Pittsburgh Steelers and UPMC Sports Medicine have announced a new program that will raise awareness and promote safe play among high school, middle school and youth football players, the ...

Nearly 30 leading, independent concussion clinicians and researchers from around the United States will convene at UPMC Oct. 15 and 16 with a unique purpose: to propose standard guidelines on the best ...

Here’s a heads-up. UPMC Sports Medicine and the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation have teamed up to bring the HeadsUP Pittsburgh program to the UPMC Wellness Center at the Wilfred R. Cameron Pavilion in ...

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 concussion ...

PITTSBURGH, March 14 – Any degree of post-concussion headache in high school athletes even one week after injury likely is associated with incomplete recovery, indicating the need to keep the athlete ...

Dale Earnhardt Jr. knew immediately something was wrong during a 2012 crash at Talladega, where his car was hit hard from behind. He was asked on his radio if he was OK, and it was clear Earnhardt was ...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 6 – Concussions are common in young athletes but the underlying changes in brain function that occur have been poorly understood. Now, a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The UPMC Concussion Network, which the Pittsburgh-based ...

When it comes to managing concussions in sports, relying only on an athlete's self report of symptoms is inadequate and likely to result in under-diagnosing the injury and the athlete unsafely ...