Tests administered on the sidelines, such as the King-Devick and the Standardized Assessment of Concussions (SAC), require athletes to quickly read numbers or words, or to recall words. Athletes...
Injury liaisons such as Shaman do not need medical training to perform a series of simple assessments to check if a player may be suffering a concussion, Schmidt said....
“More than 50 percent of brain pathways are responsible for controlling eye movement, so injuries to the brain almost universally affect eye movement,” said Dr. David Dodick of the...
Chasan’s team has provided the league with the King-Devick Test, a reading assessment tool that they’ve taught the coaches to use. Essentially, the King-Devick tool allows the coaches to...
Some surveys suggest there are 10-times as many concussions that are undetected than are detected. Along a similar line, Doug King, MD, and colleagues, wrote a recent paper showing...
Dr. Leong called a recent article published in The Lancet Neurology a must-read. "It highlights the important role of optometry, saying that vision-based testing is vital in managing all...
A simple reading test could help establish whether a rider has concussion, according to researchers. A timed vision test — known as the King- Devick Test — involves athletes...
Mary Medina, the school’s head athletic trainer gave him the concussion standard ‘King-Devick’ test. “That is a short 32 second test where they read numbers and Oscar was off...
The King-Devick is a simple test that can be administered on the sidelines in less than two minutes, explains Troy Buchanan Principal Dr. Jerry Raines “It’s a very fast,...
Specifically, we are recommending that the King-DevickTest be performed by all Doctors who work with children, especially Doctors of Optometry to establish baseline for all patients, especially for young...
Therefore, knowing that concussions can be identified 100% of the time with the King-Devick Test, here is another question for parents and the public to ask. Why are we...
The King-Devick test may be a more objective and accurate method for sideline evaluation of sports-related concussion than the Standardized Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (SCAT3), which is the current...
In the new study, Mayo Clinic researchers tested the feasibility of using a portable eye-tracking device [King-Devick Test] in a simulated environment as a way to detect the early...
In an article published this month in the journal “Neurology: Clinical Practice,” the researchers report that adding one simple vision test detected 100 percent of concussions that occurred during...