Heads Up: Concussion

Each year, U.S. emergency departments (EDs) treat an estimated 173,285 sports- and recreation-related TBIs, includingconcussions, among children and adolescents, from birth to 19 years. (MMWR October 2011) Children and teens are more likely to get a concussion and take longer to recover than adults.

CDC has created free tools for youth and high school sports coaches, parents, athletes, and health care professionals that provide important information on preventing, recognizing, and responding to a concussion.

By Group

Parents

Father with his helmet-wearing son riding a bike

Heads Up to Parents

Clinicians

Heads Up: Brain Injury in Your Practice

High School Coaches

Heads Up: Concussion in High School Sports

Youth Sports Coaches

Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports

School Staff

Heads Up to Schools: Know Your Concussion ABCs

By Resource

By Sport

Youth and High School Sports

Collegiate Sports

NCAA

Professional Sports

Football (NFL)

Celebrating 10 Years of Being Heads Up to Concussion!

Learn how CDC's Heads Up has helped to raise awareness of the need for improved prevention, recognition, and response to concussion and other serious brain injuries in the Heads Up 10 Year Anniversary Viewbook.