Awareness is Key to the University of Arizona’s Identification and Timely Treatment of Concussions

By Nick Verderame   “No two concussions we look at are even remotely the same, [and] this is the most complicated thing we’ll ever have to deal with.”[60] This explanation, by Randall Cohen, the University of Arizona’s Associate Director of Medical Services, makes a clear case for why today’s most studied athletic injury, the concussion, is so hard to diagnose and treat. The concussion is a moving target.   Concussions are not comparable to the average athletic injury. For ex