Sentences with phrase «testing as a sideline»

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Any coalition formation could be delayed by regional elections coming up in Italy later this month, but the vote could be a test of support for parties such as Forza Italia that were sidelined in the general election.

He tested the ankle on one play in the first half but left the game immediately and watched from the sidelines as Rickards took a lead.

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.

Once an athlete's baseline score has been established, re-testing can then be performed right on the sports sideline, as the «test stands up in an active setting», Dr. Balcer told MomsTeam.

«Our data indicate that head trauma events can be effectively identified by K - D test time scores, and that analyses of this new measure in future studies can establish its role as a rapid sideline screening test for concussion,» she writes.

As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memorAs Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memoras headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.

In a March 11, 2015 «Well» blog New York Times health reporter, Gretchen Reynolds, reported on a new study by NYU researchers, including Laura Balcer, a member of MomsTEAM Institute's Board of Advisors, about the use of a simple, rapid, and inexpensive visual test called King - Devick as a sideline screen to help identify athletes as young as five wit

Once attached to a player's helmet (a hockey version is available now, versions for football, lacrosse, and ski and snowboard helmets will be introduced in 2012) The ShockboxTM sensor measures the G - Force of a hit to the helmet from any direction, and then sends the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to the athletic trainer, coach or parent's smart phone to alert them when the athlete suffers a traumatic head impact that may be concussive so they can be removed from the game or practice for evaluation on the sideline using standard concussion assessment tools, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Devick test.

An easy, two - minute vision test administered on the sidelines after a young athlete has hit his or her head can help to reliably determine whether the athlete has sustained a concussion, according to a new study of student athletes, some as young as 5.

As Dr. Leverenz told MomsTEAM after publication of the first Purdue study, the limitation of screening tools currently being used to assess neurocognitive function on the sports sideline, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC)[21] and the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (SCAT3)[22], is that they test verbal memory, not the visual memory which he and the Purdue researchers found impaired in the functionally, but not clinically impaired, players who experienced at least short - term neurologic trauma from RHAs Dr. Leverenz told MomsTEAM after publication of the first Purdue study, the limitation of screening tools currently being used to assess neurocognitive function on the sports sideline, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC)[21] and the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (SCAT3)[22], is that they test verbal memory, not the visual memory which he and the Purdue researchers found impaired in the functionally, but not clinically impaired, players who experienced at least short - term neurologic trauma from RHas the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC)[21] and the Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (SCAT3)[22], is that they test verbal memory, not the visual memory which he and the Purdue researchers found impaired in the functionally, but not clinically impaired, players who experienced at least short - term neurologic trauma from RHI.

Up to now, as McGrath notes, «post-exertion protocols for athletic trainers and team physicians have generally consisted of supervised workouts with general monitoring for recurrence of post-concussive symptoms using self - report data along with brief clinical sideline testing.

Jessica Hamzelou discusses companies that sell DNA tests to consumers almost as a sideline, the real value being in the...