Hospital Program
Frye Regional Brain Center - Concussion Care
📍 Hickory
Rehabilitation/Brain Injury
Hospital Program
FryeCare Sports Medicine and Concussion Clinic
📍 Hickory, North Carolina · ✓ Listing verified 2026-07-11
About
FryeCare Sports Medicine and Concussion Clinic is a concussion service based in Hickory, North Carolina. It is a hospital program. The practice is part of Duke LifePoint Healthcare.
The listed clinical focus includes Sports Concussion and Return to Play. In this directory the listing sits under Multidisciplinary Concussion and Return to Play/Learn.
The practice sees athletes and adults.
FryeCare Sports Medicine and Concussion Clinic is a hospital-based program of Frye Regional Medical Center in Hickory that evaluates and manages sports-related concussions and other athletic injuries. The team works to guide injured athletes toward a safe, medically appropriate return to activity.
Services
Multidisciplinary ConcussionReturn to Play/Learn
Clinical focus areas
Sports ConcussionConcussionReturn to Play
Details
Provider typeHospital Program
Health systemDuke LifePoint Healthcare
ServesAthletes/Sports, Adult
Before your first appointment
Patients who contact FryeCare Sports Medicine and Concussion Clinic in Hickory usually want to be clear on a few things first:
- the 6-step return-to-play protocol — The standard stepwise protocol athletic trainers and team physicians follow.
- concussion treatment that has evidence behind it — The first 48 hours, active recovery, and the therapies used for lingering symptoms.
- the 2- and 4-week persisting thresholds — The sourced duration numbers, and the point where waiting stops being a plan.
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