December 2014 – King-Devick technologies, Inc.

December 22, 2014

High schools confront athlete concussions

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...

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Concussions, News, Video, Youth Athletes

December 19, 2014

Reston Hockey Club Targets Concussion Prevention

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....

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Concussions, Hockey, News, Youth Athletes

December 8, 2014

Vision-based test accurate and easy for concussion screening

“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...

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Concussions, News, Youth Athletes

December 4, 2014

Concussion Awareness Impacting Youth Levels

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...

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Concussions, News, Youth Athletes

December 1, 2014

Ongoing Evolution: Understanding Concussion’s Effects

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...

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Concussions, News