The first sentence of the NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee’s Concussion Diagnosis and Management Protocol – more commonly referred to in the truncated "NFL Concussion Protocol" – reads as such: ...

Reported symptoms were more accurate for concussion diagnosis than objective cognitive testing was, a case-control study of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletes found. Diagnostic ...

Objective Establish the natural history of clinical signs and symptoms, and neurocognitive function, in motorsport athletes. Major hypothesis; the SCAT5 can capture sport-specific subjective and ...

Objective Develop an on-field cognitive-motor integration task for assessing post-concussion return readiness. Hypothesis: athletes without a history (Hx) of concussion perform faster and incur fewer ...

The FDA has granted de novo clearance to two concussion assessment software products from ImPACT Applications. The Pittsburgh-based company developed its original software in the 90s for computers, ...

A test used to gauge whether a college athlete has suffered a concussion is right only half the time and may be useless, new research finds. The test used by the NCAA, which oversees college sports, ...

Honoring National Childhood Injury Prevention Week starting September 1, parents of student-athletes, among all the others involved in sports, must face the realities of the mild traumatic brain ...

Despite the brain being one of the most important organs of the body, breakthroughs in brain health, specifically the way we measure cognition, have been largely unchanged in decades. Advanced ...

Permanent concussion substitutions will be introduced into the laws of football, the game’s lawmakers have confirmed. The measure, which has been trialled in a number of competitions such as the ...

When college athletes are evaluated for a possible concussion, the diagnosis is based on an athletic trainer or team physician's assessment of three things: the player's symptoms, physical balance and ...

This story has been corrected to reflect the fact the Mizzou Point-of-Care Assessment System detects mild-cognitive impairment. Mild cognitive impairment is the earliest clinically diagnosable state ...