My experience with the Newcastle football
team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that, as long as impact sensors are strictly used for the limited purpose
of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not as the sole determining factor
in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained
in recognizing the signs
of concussion and
in conducting a sideline screening for concussion using one or more sideline assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified athletic trainer and / or
team physician), and long as data on the
number, force, and
direction of impacts is only made available for use by coaches and athletic trainers
in a position to use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate use by those, such as parents, who are not
in a position to make intelligent use
of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and as a tool to minimize repetitive head impacts.
The study reviewed the past 5 years
of regular season games
in the NBA, NFL and NHL and noted the winning percentage
of the visiting
team depending on the
direction of travel (east vs same time zone vs west), and the
number of time zones crossed for every game.
Kingfisher Bay has a
number of self - guided walks and hikes
in and around the resort including the 90 - kilometre Fraser Island Great Walk that runs from Dilli Village to Happy Valley... and our Resort Ranger
team are only too happy to point you
in the right
direction.