“We are excited to be a part of this,” Yale Athletic Director Maureen Klocke said. “We have had our share of injuries like everyone else. Players are bigger, stronger and faster and like everyone else knows, the sport has changed. It’s not the sport we played 40 years ago. Everything is so much quicker.”
- Aug 13 2015
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CFL, NFL team up on sideline concussion testing - but will it make a difference?
CFL, Concussions, Football, NFL, Press
The CFL and NFL have teamed up to add a two-minute test to standard sideline examinations for suspected concussion, with the aim of quickly determining whether a player should be pulled from the field or can safely return to play.
- Aug 11 2015
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Stampeders head trainer Michael Gudmundson said it’s really beneficial because you can’t really cheat it. “You have this based on score. You either beat it or you don’t beat it,” Gudmundson said. “This is something that could be used in amateur sport because it’s pretty easy. You literally read numbers and there’s a timer,” Gudmundson said.
- Aug 9 2015
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Extra points - The NFL is partnering with the Canadian Football League this fall to implement and monitor a new concussion test, the King-Devick Test, which is based on eye movement and will be utilized in CFL games. The NFL will contribute funding and help monitor results to help determine if the K-D Test improves the ability to diagnose concussions.
- Aug 6 2015
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“Advancing the science around concussion diagnosis, prognosis and treatment to improve player health and safety is our priority,” says Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, co-chair of the NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee. “We engage with the leading international experts and sports leagues to pursue that goal. We are grateful to the CFL, their teams and players for implementing the King-Devick Test this season to determine whether this protocol improves diagnosis and can make football, and all sports, safer.”
- Aug 4 2015
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Among the 397 students studied, nine were diagnosed with serious concussions and two were not able to return to play during the season. Based on these results the research team determined that the K-D Test is a reliable tool to help trainers and coaches to quickly determine if a player has suffered a concussion.
- Aug 4 2015
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Pete Ryan, a member of the MHSAA Representative Council, was the test subject for the King-Devick Test, which asks athletes to read single-digit numbers on a tablet to detect changes in eye movement, attention, language and concentration after a hit to the head. “It’s not hard,” said Ryan, who played football for Iron Mountain in 1987. “The idea is that ocular relations can determine if there is a concussion. The average baseline time is between 28 and 40 seconds.”
- Aug 4 2015
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“These pilot programs are intended to not only improve what’s actually happening on the sidelines at practices and contests in these communities that are part of the pilot programs, they’re intended to spread the word of the need for improved concussion detection across every community,” MHSAA Executive Director John E. “Jack” Roberts said. “We hope these schools involved will become involved in their leagues and conferences and with their peers across the state as we expand the awareness of the need for better sideline detection and provide ways to get it done.”
- Jul 20 2015
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Concussions which occur but are not discovered put the player at risk for remaining in the game and possibly having another concussion which may be much more serious, since complete recovery from the first concussion had not occurred. This article demonstrates that KDT testing of every player after every sporting event in which a concussion could have occurred, can be an effective tool to determine a player’s removal from play and a resulting referral to the player’s doctor, even if the concussion was not witnessed during the game.
- Jul 10 2015
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On the sidelines, the test can identify athletes that not only have suffered a full-blown concussion but sub-concussive brain trauma as well. Thus, the test is an excellent "remove-from-play" tool for trainers, coaches and parents. An effective remove-from-play tool is critical because it can help prevent Second Impact Syndrome, a condition in which a person experiences a second brain injury shortly after the first. Second Impact Syndrome can have devastating effects, including death.