The authors developed an iPhone application to provide sideline concussion testing and monitoring for student athletes who lack access to formal evaluation programs.
May extend sideline concussion assessment to underserved athletes; leaves open the need for prospective validation before adoption.
Professional athletes are taking concussion very seriously, and missed play due to concussion is no longer stigmatized. One fortuitous consequence is increased awareness of the detrimental effects of concussion among student athletes. Whereas professional athletes have access to formal in-competition evaluation and out-of-competition monitoring programs, the majority of student athletes, especially at the middle school and high school levels, do not. The authors therefore set out to create an easy-to-use iPhone application for sideline concussion testing and serial monitoring of these at-risk athletes.
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