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.
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