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Post Concussion Management
Should your child sustain a head injury, they will be offered the opportunity, even if they have not had a baseline screening done, to take the ImPACT as part of their visit to the physician office. This ImPACT test can assess the child at that time and while it can’t be compared to a ‘baseline’ if one was not done. These findings may help to assess the healing process.
Our in-house neuropsychologist may be consulted at that time to assist in the post-injury recovery process. He may choose to select different testing tools that can be used to assess the area of the child’s brain that might be showing evidence of slower healing. For example, balance testing and more in-depth memory testing tools may be used to hone in on specific cognitive areas that may have been affected by the injury.
Currently any consultations with our experienced in-house neuropsychologist is done on a fee-for-service basis but we are working with the insurance companies to determine whether the post-concussion management services will be considered a ‘covered’ service.
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