Hello All,

I have two children who have had concussions in the last several months. first, my oldest 15, pollvaulted and hit his head and ended up with a concussion. Luckily his school automatically does a headbinder test as soon as they are freshman so we thank god he had a baseline to go on and he was out of sports for 4 weeks until he returned to his normal baseline level. I was very thankful they had this tool to measure his brain activity level.

The second son was not as lucky, he is 10 and was running at school and hit his head . long story short went to ER with complaints of an ear ache next night ,ear was fine but they said this was a concussion xray was normal, told us to see primary for follow up. We did and he was having headaches so as long as he was symptomatic no sports for two weeks after his last symptom. Poor kid goes back to baseball and strikes out the entire summer season. We just think he is having a bad year. Then football practice starts ,now as you can imagine we have been cleared to go back by Dr.s back in June to return to sports so he started football and three weeks into pracrtice gets a blow to the head with another player, immediatley says i have a headache and pulls himself out. We did not think anything of it because no other symptoms appeared to be bothering him we just assumed he had a hit at football and was fine. A couple of weeks later he has symptomps ears rining/headaches now he can not read out loud anymore. We immediately find the best Dr we can a Dr. Robert Cantu( nerosurgeon) He tests his blood work and the S-100 marker comes out high, wich is a test that shows the brain is truly injured and will come down once the brain begins to heal. He also orderd a headbinder nerological test that my son scored so low that we know now he is having trouble proccessing things in his brain. Thankfully the dr. ordered theses tests and we are not sitting around thinking our son is not doing well in school because of other reasons. I highly recommend anyone with PCS to do your research and go to the best Dr. who only specialize in this field and who are up to date on the newest tests and treatments!!!!

Good Luck to All, I am looking to start a support group for people with PCS anyone out there interested in helping please let me know! terri.geary @nemoves.com