New device may help detect concussions

[badboy]

I am posting here due to our own Deandre Hopkins:


a new device developed by researchers at San Diego State University in California may offer a solution. The team, led by Daniel Goble, has developed a technology capable of objectively measuring an athlete’s ability to balance – a key indicator of a concussion.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/...s-on-sidelines/?test=latestnews#ixzz2dHLYAxhy

 

[TheIronDuke]

Now if only there was a device for helping to detect the right section of the board to post this in!

Just giving you a hard time, btw.

 

[b0ng]

They should probably get that device to high schools immediately.

 

[OzzO]

Pfft, Snickers figured out how to detect concussions some time ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoX-HkOcEuE

 

[Playoffs]

Bound to work better than the old "device"...
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[HJam72]

Bound to work better than the old "device"...
[imgwidthsize=200]http://napwa.org.au/files/images/iStock_000000214154_L2_newtx.preview.jpg[/IMG]

It's 7, coach. :kubepalm:

 

[badboy]

If they fall off the board, I think that is also an indicator

 

[CloakNNNdagger]

I am posting here due to our own Deandre Hopkins:


a new device developed by researchers at San Diego State University in California may offer a solution. The team, led by Daniel Goble, has developed a technology capable of objectively measuring an athlete’s ability to balance – a key indicator of a concussion.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/...s-on-sidelines/?test=latestnews#ixzz2dHLYAxhy

Seems like a nice simple screening device. The problem I see with relying on it is that concussion symptoms, including the effects on balance, in a significant percent of persons do not present for hours after a suspected event. Still sounds like a helpful tool to assess one common symptom of concussion.