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.
- Sep 17 2015
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Dr. Oz explains how this at-home concussion test can determine whether players should be removed from games and seek medical help.
- Sep 10 2015
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“Our meta-analysis found that if an athlete had a worsening in their time compared to their baseline reading, they were five times more likely to have sustained a concussion,” Balcer said. “The King-Devick test showed a sensitivity of 86% and specificity of 90% in over 100 patients that had concussion and were formally tested on the sidelines.”
- Sep 8 2015
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The King-Devick test was developed by an optometrist in the Chicago area in the 1970'S and was originally designed to diagnose reading problems with students. But in recent years it has been adopted to diagnose concussions in sports and has received backing of the Mayo Clinic.
- Sep 1 2015
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"When I was in high school, a running back ran a 4.9 40 and I thought he was the fastest guy around but last year at the NFL combine, a 340-pounder ran a 4.9,'' Devick said, shaking his head. "Football's the only sport that the 6-year-olds play on the same size as the pros. The field's the same size and everybody's bigger, faster, stronger. I tell my friends with kids in contact sports, I would do the test on them every night. … And I think we've made a lot of progress.''
- Sep 1 2015
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"It's a number system and basically it's an eye pattern system. Kids follow the numbers and they do a baseline test first of all and then they have to be within one second of their baseline to qualify to stay in a game," said Peter Ryan, the athletic director at the school.
- Aug 19 2015
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“You're not going to put a kid on the field with a sprained ankle when you know that ankle was still sprained and can't move well. Putting them back into an athletic setting when the brain is not ready to go is not going to promote healing whatsoever."
- 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 15 2015
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“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.