Contact Sports — Brain Health Neurology

Why You Are Here

Nobody counted the hits. Not the two or three that got you pulled from a game, and certainly not the thousands that never did — the ones that were simply practice.

Now you are forty, or fifty, and you notice things. You lose names. You reread paragraphs. You wonder whether that is ordinary or whether it is the ledger coming due.

Here is the honest answer: nobody can tell you that from your history alone. What is knowable is where your cognition actually stands right now, measured against people your age, and which of the things affecting it can still be changed.

The Evidence

What the research supports — and what it does not.

Four findings from the peer-reviewed literature. Every source is listed below.

1
Recovery takes longer than the old rule of thumb. Across 34,709 collegiate athletes, most were not cleared for unrestricted participation until roughly a month after injury — not the fourteen days long treated as standard. Broglio et al., Sports Medicine, 2022
2
It is not only the diagnosed concussions. Among 214 Division I football and hockey players wearing instrumented helmets, a single season of repetitive impacts was associated with measurably poorer performance on tests of new learning. McAllister et al., Neurology, 2012
3
The long-term picture is genuinely unsettled. A systematic review of the case-control and cohort literature found the evidence on later-life risk to be mixed and frequently overstated in public discussion. That uncertainty is an argument for measuring yourself rather than assuming the worst. Iverson et al., British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2023
4
Cognition can be measured objectively. The assessment used here was validated against a normative sample of 1,069 people aged 7 to 90, with reliability comparable to conventional pencil-and-paper neuropsychological testing. Gualtieri & Johnson, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2006

How It Works

Three touches. One plan.

01

Measure

A validated computerized assessment that takes about 45 minutes — set aside an hour. Most online cognitive screens run ten and measure almost nothing. You take this one at home, on a desktop or laptop with a keyboard. It scores nine cognitive domains against age-matched norms. Dr. Lowe reviews your results before you speak.

02

Interpret

An unhurried consultation, about an hour. Your history in real detail, then What your results show, what they do not show, and what your playing history does and does not explain.

03

Act

Within two business days: a written plan naming three prioritized things worth acting on first, with the peer-reviewed research behind every recommendation in it.

04

Review

A scheduled 30-minute call to go through the plan together — what it means, where to start, and how to fit it into your actual life.

This is not return-to-play clearance.

If an athlete has a suspected concussion, they need an evaluation now, from the clinician managing their care. Decisions about returning to a sport belong to that clinician and to the team's protocol. Nothing here replaces either.

The Brain Health Blueprint answers a different question. Not whether someone plays on Friday, but where their thinking actually stands — measured, rather than remembered.

That is worth having for a former athlete taking stock, for a family weighing what the seasons have cost, and for an athlete still competing who would rather carry a real baseline into what comes next than try to reconstruct one afterward.

Stop guessing about the ledger.

One flat fee. No insurance, no referral, and no one telling you it was probably nothing.

$599

Assessment · Physician Consultation · Written Plan · Review Call

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You stopped counting years ago.