We are a CCMI Registered Practice

Sydney Concussion Centre is proud to be part of the Complete Concussion Managements Inc (CCMI) network. Our practitioners are CCMI registered practitioners which is a result of 50+ hours of post-university training, including a competency-based exam.

A concussion is an injury to the brain caused by the rapid acceleration and deceleration of the brain inside your skull. Usually the symptoms of concussion would resolve within 2-4 weeks. However, symptoms that mimic those of concussion can linger and are often missed by health professionals. 

CCMI was established to help recognise these lingering problems and provide effective treatment to sufferers of concussion. The mission of CCMI is to improve the collective understanding of the prevention, management, and prognosis of concussion, and provide high quality, accessible and patient-centric care, based on the latest scientific and medical research.

From this, thousands of clinics have partnered with CCMI throughout the world. CCMI has become the global leader of evidence-based concussion management aimed at improving patient outcomes.

CCMI works in three primary ways:

1.  Education: World class concussion management courses aimed for doctors or allied health professions. The CCMI course sifts through the strongest evidence available to direct the management of any patient with a concussion. This could include a person who had a concussion last weekend, or one suffering from concussion symptoms for years.

2. Research: A team of researchers are employed by CCMI to conduct ongoing research to learn new and better ways to manage concussions. These researchers also sift through new evidence and provide a monthly succinct report of the new evidence to CCMI clinics. This allows CCMI to easily keep up to date with the best management strategies for concussion management.

3. Community work by working directly with schools and sporting clubs: CCMI clinics are able to provide services including baseline testing services, sport policy development and sideline trainer courses. Baseline testing involves a series of physical and cognitive tests that measure different areas of brain function commonly affected by concussion. This information allows CCMI practitioners to make an informed decision of when it is safe for an athlete to return to sport.

Sydney Concussion Centre has partnered with CCMI and is proud to offer expert management in concussion. We are able to help with those suffering from both acute concussion in guiding them back to a full recovery, or with those suffering from Post-Concussion Symptoms (PCS). We are also proud to offer baseline testing and development of concussion policy as part of our services.