Concussion Baseline Testing

Pre-season baseline testing involves testing athletes prior to starting their sporting season to assess numerous physical and cognitive systems that could potentially become affected after a concussion.

Baseline testing adds useful information to the management of sport-related concussion by giving clinical insight into pre-injury physical and cognitive functioning. This objective data is then used to make more informed and safer, return-to-play decisions. In fact, annual baseline testing is endorsed and recommended for appropriate concussion care by most leading global health and medical groups, and position statements including:

• The International Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport,
• The Centers for Disease Control, the National Athletic Trainers Association,
• The Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Concussion Guidelines,
• Concussion in Sport Australia Position Statement,
• The International Ice Hockey Summit,
• The Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine.