Sentences with phrase «tests on athletes»

The researchers» tests on athletes show that this region, too, becomes less active following a concussion.

And preliminary tests on athletes suggest the squishy sounds the device picks up are more erratic, and more irregular, in an injured knee than in a healthy one.

After contacting my department in May of 2002 to request use of some of our unit's lab facilities and equipment to perform testing on athletes, the issue has bounced back and forth between my departmental chair, the dean, the various vice presidents, university legal counsel, and just about everyone else in between.

Not exact matches

Fraser often cites Lululemon's attributes in his presentations, from its recruitment of real athletes and customers to test its products to its unobtrusive, wordless logo that is recognizable most for its placement on the back of the pants: «From 10 feet away this logo is just a white dot but people understand that that dot means quality.»

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea A despondent mood swept through Russian athletes at the Pyeongchang Winter Games on Saturday, their hopes of being able to fly the Russian flag at the closing ceremony deflated by a second positive doping test.

POTENTIAL RISKS Pharmacological and toxic properties similar to ephedra; could cause an athlete to test positive for ephedra, depending on test methodology

The athletes» fears increased considerably when it was announced on Monday that seven weightlifters had tested positive for steroids.

On Long Island, Simon said that the USOC, using powers granted it by Congress under the Sports Act of 1978, would assume full responsibility for the testing of American athletes.

Novitzky, while not controlling what USADA tests for, based on WADA's determination of which substances are prohibited, and when, he's the direct link between the UFC, its contracted athletes, and USADA.

If Novitzky, who spends a good deal of his workday dealing with USADA, and athletes involved in USADA test failures, doesn't have better answers for athletes (at least based on Cavillo's claims), he needs to either more fully educate himself, or stop offering answers and advice, and recommend all athletes contact USADA directly.

Instead, USADA has chosen to rely primarily on a testosterone - to - epitestosterone ratio test to determine if exogenous testosterone is in an athlete's system.

It's something that needs to be done continuously, on a very regular basis (just like doping tests to athletes) because saying that a ranch was clean a week or month ago doesn't guarantee it will be the following month or more later.

Calf strains are notoriously prone to aggravation if an athlete tests it prior to being 100 percent healthy, so keep a close eye on Jeffrey's progress early in Sunday's contest.

Proposal 48 holds that entering athletes can be eligible as freshmen only if they have a minimum score of 700 on the combined college board SAT test (or a 15 of 36 score on the American College Test) and a 2.0 high school grade - point average in 11 core courtest (or a 15 of 36 score on the American College Test) and a 2.0 high school grade - point average in 11 core courTest) and a 2.0 high school grade - point average in 11 core courses.

In the US American collegiate NCAA athletes or professional sport leagues like the NFL, NHL, MLB, or NBA do not spend money on mandated USADA testing.

Sophie McKinna will be among the seven British athletes travelling to Leiria, Portugal, for the European Cup Winter Throws competition on March 15 - 16 and the European junior shot put silver medallist says she is looking forward to testing herself at the top level at this early stage of the year.

«The Birmingham Diamond League will be my first big European track race of 2016 and a great platform to test myself on the road to the Olympic Games in Rio — the ultimate competition for every athlete,» said Farah, who is yet to confirm the distance he will be racing in Birmingham.

Moser brings to the subject matter a unique background: As a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student - athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recovery.

She pointed to one patient, a high school athlete, who had clearly recovered from his concussion - to the point that he was performing in the superior range on neuropsychological testing and getting As in school - who was nevertheless so worried, anxious, and paranoid about hurting his head again that he thought he'd suffered another concussion when he happened to turn his head quickly from side to side!

Returning athletes to play only after their symptoms have cleared, they are able to handle a full academic workload, their scores on balance, neurocognitive and visual tests have returned to their individualized baseline, and they have successfully completed a graduated exercise program without their symptoms returning; and

An important, and well - established, part of an assessment for concussion on the sports sideline under the most recent concussion guidelines [1,2] is to test an athlete's orientation to time and place by asking the so - called «Maddocks questions.»

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 development of computerized neurocognitive tests such as ImPACT have been a big advance in terms of making sure an athlete has recovered their cognitive function necessary to return to play or work, but the usual and primary treatment remains rest, with follow - up testing using the ImPACT paradigm, and return to play or work following the algorithm of the ImPACT program based on test results.

When the SCAT2 was issued, superseding the original SCAT published in 2005, the authors recommended continued reliance on the SAC until prospective studies could be conducted to assess the SCAT2's sensitivity (how good the test is in identifying athletes with concussion; for example, a test which is very sensitive will have few false negatives, rarely missing those later found to have concussion) and specificity (a test with high specificity will have few false positives, rarely mis - classifying people without concussion as having concussion).

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.

The upshot, Dr. Galetta believes, is that parents and coaches «should absolutely consider» familiarizing themselves with the King - Devick test and administering it to young athletes before the season starts, then having those baseline numbers and the test itself handy on the sidelines.

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 memory.

In addition, because it tests for verbal memory, the SAC can not identify athletes who may suffer measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI), resulting from repeated sub-concussive blows to the head.

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

However, the N.Y.U. researchers knew that in recent years, trainers working with athletes in sports such as boxing and mixed martial arts, where concussions are common, had begun supplementing the Standardized Assessment with a simple vision exam, known as the King - Devick test, during which someone reads slightly jumbled lines of numbers printed on three cards as quickly as possible.

As with other neuropsychological testing tools, the value of the SAC in concussion assessment is maximized when individual baseline test data is available because, without such baselines, the athlete's postinjury performance on neuropsychological testing and other concussion assessment measures, such as the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison with a generalized «normal» based on a large population sample.

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.

During the season, if an athlete is suspected of sustaining a concussion, have him or her repeat the test on the sidelines.

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

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.

Studies have shown a relationship between postconcussion activity level and performance on neurocognitive tests, with athletes engaging in the highest levels of activity performing the worst on such tests.

The National Athletic Trainers» Association 2014 position statement on the management of sport - related concussion [14] says all athletes should «ideally» undergo a preseason baseline assessment, but, that, at a minimum, athletes who are at a high risk of concussion based on their sport should be included in any baseline testing program, with athletes with a significant concussion history, or other relevant pre-existing condition, such as attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder, tested on an individual basis.

Athletes who had undergone pre-season, baseline computerized neuropsychological testing, and were then re-tested after suspected concussion, were less likely to return to play on the same day, and less likely to return to play within a week of their injury, than the three out of four injured athletes who did not undergo such Athletes who had undergone pre-season, baseline computerized neuropsychological testing, and were then re-tested after suspected concussion, were less likely to return to play on the same day, and less likely to return to play within a week of their injury, than the three out of four injured athletes who did not undergo such athletes who did not undergo such testing.

«Our study shows that an easy to administer vision test is a simple, effective tool that empowers parents, coaches, trainers — and even physicians — on the sidelines to have a protocol for deciding if an athlete should be removed from play.»

Concussed athletes on average completed the King - Devick test 4.8 seconds longer than their baseline score, whereas non-concussed athletes improved their score by an average of 1.9 seconds.

By testing athletes on the field, both systems are hoping to get players the medical attention they need.

Once an athlete has completed the field - side concussion symptom detection test, the data from the test is relayed to that athlete's personal profile on the Head Case Website, where it is paired with impact data collected from the sensor.

Thompson's focus was on major strongman competitions and federations that do not promote the drug testing of their athletes and competitors.

Sharapova, the world's highest - paid female athlete and a five - times Grand Slam champion, stunned the sporting world in March when she announced that she had tested positive for meldonium, a substance she had been taking since 2006 but one that was added to the banned list on January 1 this year.

The researchers tested five amputee athletes running at different heights on blade prosthetics made by three companies.

So Higgins conducted an experiment to determine whether a statistical approach could identify more of the athletes who sandbagged on the baseline test.

The study details a promising approach for pinpointing more athletes who play «impaired» on the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing, or ImPACT, a computerized tool consisting of eight subtests that gauge neurocognitive performance.

In a study of accuracy and durability, the device was tested on two different groups of athletes: one cycling indoors in a fitness center under controlled conditions and the other participating in the El Tour de Tucson, a long - distance bicycle race in arid and complex conditions.

«We will be conducting extensive testing of our athletes to evaluate the effect of Beijing's air pollution on lung function,» he says.

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