“It’s about that Jell-O within that cranium,” says Dennis Cardone, an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Langone Medical Center, and co-director of NYU’s Concussion Center. “How it moves around, and how it collides with the cranium itself.” Because a significant proportion of our brains is used to process visual information, many of the symptoms that can be used to diagnose concussions affect vision. Cardone uses a screening test called the King-Devick test, which was developed in 1976 to measure deficiencies in eye movement during reading.
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The King-Devick Test is one method Clugston and his team have used since 2011. The test is a two-minute challenge that requires an athlete to read single-digit numbers displayed on cards or on an iPad. UF collects baseline data for the King-Devick Test as with all of its concussion tests, and if an athlete is suspected of suffering head trauma, he or she is re-tested. If the time needed to complete the test is any longer than their baseline result, the athlete is removed from play and further evaluated.
- Mar 29 2015
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Dr. Kurt Miceli, Medical Director of Bancroft, a neurological rehabilitation facility says it could prevent more injuries. “I’ve seen numbers one and a half million up to three million concussions a year, tremendous amounts of folks who are undergoing these concussions and the concern is to really have our kids or whoever it is not to suffer a second one.”
- Mar 28 2015
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Video: A simple test can be done after a head injury and is a reliable way to quickly diagnose a concussion.
- Mar 19 2015
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The simple assessment, which doesn't require medical knowledge to conduct or evaluate, may be especially useful in the youth sports arena where trainers and team physicians are few and far between. The rapid, low-tech evaluation may also help keep injured athletes from re-entering play and risking second impact syndrome, which can be fatal.
- Mar 17 2015
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“We want to make sure that those communities that have very few resources for sideline detection can get some,” Robert said. “If we can do that for our schools — have a quick way to perform the test and have it interface seamlessly with a report to this office and perfect permanent record — then we have really made a contribution to detection and aftercare of our students.”
- Mar 16 2015
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Take Home Message: The King-Devick test is a quick and reliable method to assess vision, eye movements, language function, and attention. An athlete with a concussion tends to complete the test slower than his/her preseason assessment while other athletes improve over time.
- Mar 13 2015
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"In the youth leagues in particular, when there may not be doctors or athletic trainers on the sidelines when a kid gets hit, this enables parents with proper training to participate in the preliminary assessment of concussions," said study author Dr. Steven Galetta, a researcher at New York University Langone Concussion Center. "It's so affordable and easy to administer that any coach or parent could use it to determine when an injured child can return to the game and when they need to sit out."
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Watch Jenna Lee talk about Head Injury with Laura Balcer, MD, from NYU.
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"A vision test absolutely needs to be added," Dr Galetta told Medscape Medical News. "This one has been the most rigorously tested on the sidelines, and it's easy to administer by parents and others."