Have you or your loved one suffered a blow to the head during a car accident, at work, or while playing a sport? Perhaps it was a concussion after a fall. Chances are, you or your loved one who you saw lose consciousness made a trip to the local emergency room only to be sent home after a negative CT scan of the head. And chances are that you’re still suffering from symptoms like headaches, nausea, or feeling unwell overall. That’s because what you really needed from the health care facility was a concussion test which can either be a web-based concussion test online or an in-facility concussion test that ties up with concussion data online for accurate and instant concussion testing results.
You are not alone in suffering sports concussions. Most early brain injury from a concussion is missed by athletic trainers and coaches who don’t have access to baseline testing because the athletes were never screened with a brain physical. And when there is a concussion-related trip to the ER, the athlete is very often given a return to play or allowed to return to regular physical activity by an ER physician. This happens because the ER, contrary to scientific evidence, still uses a CT Scan for concussion screening. In the case of heart injury, electrical changes are sought by performing an EKG (not an X-RAY). Similarly, getting a CT Scan misses electrical injury to brain tissue. The CT Scan while helpful in ruling out bleeding inside the brain does little to screen for concussion-related brain injury – a far more common occurrence. You or your loved one could, therefore, still have suffered a brain injury from the car accident or head trauma that was missed because a concussion EEG based test was not performed.
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