Doctors and medical staff attending to games in Pueblo and Fremont Counties are able to quickly call up the King-Devick tests on an iPad and check for a concussion right on the sidelines. Students who are diagnosed with a concussion must then demonstrate a number of progressions before they are cleared to return to play.
- Oct 10 2015
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An update from Samantha Figueroa of the King-Devick concussion screening test, a rapid eye tracking test was also presented. Expanding on the portability of the King-Devick is now a tablet-based system on the sidelines for players participating in tests, while a mobile APP assists with keeping record of scores.
- Aug 19 2015
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“The fact of the matter is, there is no such thing as a safe sport. You can have high concussion rates in rugby, soccer, basketball. You can have them in all the sports. It’s a matter of what can we do to mitigate it. Studies have shown it’s not usually the first concussion that’s the problem. It’s when the kid goes to return to play and suffers another concussion after that and then another one after that. With something like King-Devick, if we can pull them out when they suffer the initial injury, now we have really reduced their chance to have a real serious injury out of it.”
- 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.”
- 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.
- Oct 9 2014
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Mary Medina, the school’s head athletic trainer gave him the concussion standard ‘King-Devick’ test. “That is a short 32 second test where they read numbers and Oscar was off by a couple seconds,” said Medina. The test measured his ability to think and respond to a series of questions that he’d already taken in the past. Since he already knew the answers, he shouldn’t have had any difficulty; but that wasn’t the case. “We pulled him!” said Medina.
- Aug 16 2014
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Participants will take the King-Devick Test, which provides an objective measure of reaction time, eye movement and mental clarity.