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For athletic trainers

Own baseline week without living in a computer lab.

You know the drill: four evenings of rotating athletes through a single laptop, a clipboard you keep losing, and a SCAT5 stack you can never find when it actually matters. HQ Baseline kills all of that.

Athletes / afternoon
200+
Per athlete
15 min
Link to share
1
Paper forms
0

Built for your week

The tools trainers ask us for.

Athletic trainers were not hired to run a computer lab. You were hired to keep athletes safe and get them back to play when they are ready. Baselines matter — they give you the reference point that makes return-to-play decisions defensible — but the old way of running them eats an entire week of your life and half of your storage closet.

HQ Baseline replaces that week with a fifteen-minute afternoon. You share one link. Athletes take the battery on the phones they already have. Scores land in your dashboard. And when a soccer forward takes a ball to the head on Tuesday night, you pull up their baseline on your phone in the athletic training room and have a conversation with the data, not against it.

What a typical baseline day looks like

1. You email a baseline link to your team the night before. 2. Players show up to practice with their phones charged. 3. They complete the seven modules in a quiet corner of the gym or locker room while you run practice. 4. You review the dashboard after practice, flag any outliers, and you’re done. No weekends sacrificed.

Designed around what you already do

HQ Baseline is the baseline layer, but it plugs directly into the full Headquarters Health concussion care platform — sideline comparison, graduated return-to-play tracking, and rehab exercise assignment. Start with baseline, add the rest when you’re ready.

Frequently asked questions

Do I still need to proctor the test?
No. Every module is voice-prompted and on-screen. Athletes self-administer. You review results afterward, which is where your clinical judgment actually matters.
Can I baseline a traveling team from a hotel?
Yes. A baseline link works anywhere there is phone service. Many of our trainers run baselines in team meeting rooms or even on the bus.
How does HQ Baseline compare to ImPACT or Sway?
ImPACT is desktop-based and cognitive-only. Sway is mobile but covers a narrower item set. HQ Baseline is the only platform that delivers a full seven-module battery — cognition, balance, and tandem gait — as a self-administered mobile test. See our comparison for details.
Will parents need to sign something?
We provide a parent/guardian consent flow you can embed in the baseline link. If your district requires a paper form, the dashboard can export a signed PDF per athlete.
What if an athlete doesn't have a phone?
You can lend them any phone — an old spare device, an iPad, or even the athletic training room tablet. The test is browser-based, no app install.

Take your week back.

See a live baseline on a real phone in fifteen minutes.