Over the past two years, many of the world’s foremost researchers and leading clinical experts from across the United States have collaborated to develop more useful ways to classify the most common clinical trajectories seen in concussion. Authored by top neurosurgery, neuropsychology, emergency medicine, family medicine, and sports medicine experts, this week’s publication represents the first […]
Read articleeSports as a domain of competition is heating up and growing fast in terms of dollars invested, fans courted, and teams established. And as the core of eSports continues to expand, so too do the peripheral verticals around it. One of the most interesting of these secondary areas is the world of eSport player health; […]
Read articleIn our discussions with many sports organizations over the past year, we’ve fielded many interesting questions from team health and performance personnel representing professional and collegiate sport. Rightfully so, as many have differing agendas and want to fully explore and vet all of our relevant details from ease of use and feasibility of testing to […]
Read articleAccording to a recent report by the Sports & Fitness Industry Association (SFIA) and the Aspen Institute, youth participation in most team sports was up slightly in 2017, but was down 4% over the past four years. A decade ago, 45% of children ages 6 to 12 played a team sport regularly, but now only […]
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Read articleWhen I examine an athlete, I need to devote ample time to effectively and safely assess many systems in the body that help the athlete perform at top physical and cognitive performance. After collecting a subjective history, including injury mechanism of injury, I do a thorough binocular vision exam.
Read article(Valid) Data. My precious… Several years ago, I was fortunate to be involved in an exciting large-scale eye tracking study. The team had spent countless hours recruiting subjects, conducting surveys, and gathering data. We had waited eagerly for several months to take a peek at the data, but the data czars had wisely cautioned us […]
Read articleHave you ever thought about how much detail and nuance you are missing each moment of the day? Of the infinite information coming in through our senses from the world around us, our brains do an amazing job of discerning what is immediately important, and what we can allow to fade into the background. If […]
Read articleOur brains have an inherent challenge. It takes time to process information and the outside world is not still, nor are we. So we are always in the past. Yet we interact in the present- catch the ball, have conversations and drive our cars. How do we do it if all we sense has already happened?
Read articleThrough the process of discovery and innovation, the evolution of clinical practice affords clinicians the opportunity to gain new skills and improve decision making as a result of new, high-fidelity patient data collected and enhanced workflow these opportunities create. Today, however, we have seen a glut of emerging technologies, diagnostics, and equipment create confusion in […]
Read articleAn FDA clearance is necessary to market a medical device in the United States. Everyone is aware that regulatory hurdles can be an expensive, intrusive process. Having one carries a lot of weight. However, few companies have been through the process and rarely discuss the challenges. But there are benefits to transparency. Users of SyncThink […]
Read articleWhen Opportunity Knocks When I was first exposed to the EYE-SYNC technology, I had already been working for five years as part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary group of researchers at Stanford to better understand the natural history of head injury. We maintained a collective curiosity about novel ways this epidemic could be better understood, […]
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