"Heads Up Pittsburgh" is a claque labour with the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation and UPMC Sports Medicine, aimed at making more hockey families in the know of concussions in the sport. Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, of course, has not played since Jan. 5, and continues to be on the mend from a concussion. Crosby continue week returned to forenoon skates on gamedays, but will not turn back to devil-may-care engagement in the acceptable season. He may be back in era for the earliest round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, which begin next week.
The tests will be conducted starting May 1 at UPMC Sports Medicine Center on Pittsburgh’s South Side. "We are very boastful that it focuses on the health, aegis and lore of thousands of townsperson teeny-bopper hockey players," said Dave Soltesz, president of the Penguins Foundation. Crosby was not in a minute tested for a concussion after a hit in the Jan. 1 Winter Classic, because he wasn’t experiencing any symptoms.
About four days later, the symptoms were present. Crosby, still the team’s gaffer with 32 goals and 66 points, hasn’t played since. "This organize of year, about 20 percent of our concussion clinic patients are child hockey players - both boys and girls," said Dr. Micky Collins of the UPMC Sports Medicine Concussion Program.
Soltesz said the program will be focused on the pee wee, bantam and midget levels of lass hockey, in extension to on a trip adherents hockey, because those players are tortuous in body checking. "This represents 6,000 players in those life-span groups in western Pennsylvania," he said. "And our aim is to analysis all of them." The Penguins will adjoin the New Jersey Devils in their ultimate regular-season bailiwick diversion on Tuesday. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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