Academic/University Program
Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center (V-SCoRe)
📍 Nashville
Vestibular/BalanceNeuropsychology/CognitiveHeadache/Migraine
Children's Hospital Program
Vanderbilt Youth Sports Health Center
📍 Nashville, Tennessee · ✓ Listing verified 2026-07-11
About
Vanderbilt Youth Sports Health Center provides concussion care in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a children's hospital program. The practice is part of Vanderbilt Health.
Concussion work here covers Pediatric Concussion, Sports Concussion, Return to Play and Return to Learn. In this directory the listing sits under Return to Play/Learn.
The practice sees athletes and children and teenagers.
The Vanderbilt Youth Sports Health Center brings together specialists from Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt Sports Medicine to care for pediatric, adolescent, and young adult athletes. Working with the Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center, it streamlines concussion identification and uses ImPACT testing of reaction time, memory, and processing speed against a baseline to track recovery. A graduated return-to-play progression advances athletes from light activity through non-contact practice to full competition only when symptom-free.
Services
Return to Play/Learn
Clinical focus areas
ConcussionPediatric ConcussionSports ConcussionReturn to PlayReturn to Learn
Details
Provider typeChildren's Hospital Program
SpecialtyPediatric Sports Medicine
Health systemVanderbilt Health
ServesAthletes/Sports, Pediatric/Youth
Before your first appointment
Patients who contact Vanderbilt Youth Sports Health Center in Nashville usually want to be clear on a few things first:
- the graduated return-to-sport steps — The standard stepwise protocol athletic trainers and team physicians follow.
- concussion signs in babies, toddlers and kids — What to watch for in a child too young to tell you what hurts.
- testing for a concussion at home — The danger signs that mean the ER tonight, and why no home test rules a concussion out.
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