This week, we chat about a blood test that could predict recovery
time after a concussion, new insights into the bizarre hagfish's anatomy, and a cheap paper centrifuge based on a toy, with Online News Editor David Grimm.
Assessing outcomes and recovery
time after concussion can be very subjective.
Not exact matches
after suffering from
concussion, and Wenger could have a real defensive crisis on his hands — hardly the best
time when we are about to face the second - highest scorers in the Premier League with 85 goals.
It's impossible to attribute that
concussion to the OU game
after Sam's head got slammed for a 2nd
time to the turf a week later against OSU.
The emerging model of sport
concussion assessment now involves the use of brief screening tools to evaluate post-
concussion signs and symptoms on the sideline immediately
after a
concussion and neuropsychological testing to track recovery further out from the
time of injury.
16 % of parents felt there should be no specific
time before a young athlete could safely return to play
after a
concussion.
Sixteen percent felt there should be no specific duration of
time before a young athlete returns to play
after a
concussion (Figure 1).
People who don't experience a
concussion or head injury tend to have faster reading
times when tested again during the season; however, those who are tested immediately
after they may have sustained a
concussion experience slower
times.
The authors hypothesized that differences would exist between age groups, with younger patients having a larger number of symptoms, greater severity of symptoms, and increased
time to return to baseline
after sustaining a
concussion.
«Our ultimate aim is to better understand the
time course of neurobiological recovery
after concussion.»
«But much more research is needed,» he adds — especially comparisons of different biomarkers at different
time points
after injury — to develop a more reliable blood test for
concussion.
Patient reports of feeling «slower than normal»
after a
concussion have been associated with visual dysfunction of the central vision reaction
times (CVRT).
After the press screening, one current international player said: «Our
concussion protocols can be laughable at
times».
Because this was a retrospective study of medical records and notes by team physicians and athletic trainers, the research team wasn't able to quantify the specific amount of
time athletes kept playing before reporting a
concussion, whether that was immediately
after finishing the game or days later, to determine how the length of a reporting delay contributed to recovery
time.