Washington Wizards to test virtual reality system to better monitor players ’ fatigue
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Washington Wizards Partner With Neurotechnology Company To Assess Player Fatigue (Forbes):
“Professional sports teams are always looking for an edge, as games are often won or lost by one quick decision or one regretful error. As the sports world become receptive to technologies more prevalent in other sectors, the new knowledge gained can enhance that desired edge in ways that would be nearly unrecognizable to a professional athlete a generation ago.
One area of continued interest for athletic training is the assessment of how the brain aids performance in competition and how fatigue effects brain performance during...
Source: SharpBrains - February 20, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology brain-performance EYE-SYNC fatigue Neurotechnology SyncThink virtual-reality Washington Wizards Source Type: blogs
Intimate partner violence and traumatic brain injury: An “invisible” public health epidemic
While studying brain injuries in the mid-1990s, I began volunteering in a domestic violence shelter. I noticed that the abuse and problems many women reported were consistent with possibly experiencing concussions. Women reported many acts of violence that could cause trauma to the brain, as well as many post-concussive symptoms. Shockingly, my search for literature on this topic yielded zero results.
When I decided to focus my graduate work on this topic, I was even more shocked by what I learned from women who had experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). Of the 99 women I interviewed, 75% reported at least one trauma...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - December 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Eve Valera, PhD Tags: Concussions Neurological conditions Women's Health Source Type: blogs
An interview with Rosi Sexton: polymath
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On Sunday 23 September, we recorded an interview with Rosi Sexton. Ever since I got to know her, I’ve been impressed by her polymathy. She’s a musician, a mathematician and a champion athlete, and now an osteopath: certainly an unusual combination. You can read about her on her Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosi_Sexton.
The video is long and wide-ranging, so I’ll give some bookmarks, in case you don’t want to watch it all. (And please excuse my garish London marathon track suit.)
Rosi recently started to take piano lessons again, after a 20 year break. She plays Chopin in the int...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 22, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Nowinski rebuts book which questions football's role in chronic traumatic encephalopathy
On Tuesday, I posted about a new book out which questions the conclusions drawn by Boston University researchers regarding the connections between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Today, BU ' s Chris Nowinskiresponded in the pages of USA Today.Chris Nowinski, PhD, CEO of the Concussion Legacy Foundation which has connections to Boston University researchers, said the following in the USA Today article: " I ' m happy to ask Merril Hoge who to draft No. 1 next year, but we shouldn ' t be asking him how to design research studies. "Chris Nowinski, PhD (Source: neuropathology blog)
Source: neuropathology blog - October 25, 2018 Category: Radiology Tags: trauma Source Type: blogs
The Ivy League reduces concussion rates in football by moving the kickoff ball just five yards toward opposing team's goalpost
Following an experimental 2016 change to kickoff rules designed to encourage more touchbacks, Ivy League schools saw reduced rates of concussions on the football field.A recent study in which Brown University and the seven other Ivy League institutions participated showed that reducing kickoff returns in which players actively try to advance the ball during football games could lessen the number of concussions players suffer on the field.Results from the study, published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association, show a sharp decrease in the rate of concussions following the Ivy League ’s d...
Source: neuropathology blog - October 14, 2018 Category: Radiology Tags: trauma Source Type: blogs
Concussion care for children and adolescents: New recommendations
There has been lots of attention on concussions in youth, especially from sports, over the past few years. It’s good that we are paying more attention to concussions. As the stories of prior National Football League players show us, concussions can lead to lifelong problems.
The problem for doctors, parents, and coaches has been that while we want to do the right thing when a child gets a concussion, we haven’t known what that right thing is. So it’s great news that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reviewed all the research and made recommendations to help guide us as we care for children with...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Adolescent health Children's Health Concussions Parenting Source Type: blogs
Best Post of August 2018 - Omalu puts a religious spin on his assessment of the football: " It is not of God. "
The next in our " Best of the Month " series comes from August 8, 2018:“We shouldn’t let children play [football] because we are damaging their brains and robbing them of their humanity. That is a fact.” That ' s what Dr. Bennet Omalu had to say to a reporter associate with Sojourners, a faith-based organization. In the recently released article from Sojourners, Omalu said that football is a sport " not of God " . A committed Catholic, Omalu says that he lets "the Spirit of God percolate into my being... Everything I do, I do through the eyes of faith. ”Bennet Omalu, MDOmalu is best known for t...
Source: neuropathology blog - September 17, 2018 Category: Radiology Tags: Best of the Month series trauma Source Type: blogs
RightEye Vision Tests for Eyes and Brain: Interview with Co-Founder and CSO Dr. Melissa Hunfalvay
Medgadget recently demoed RightEye’s vision tests with Dr. Jennifer Kungle, a provider at The Center for Vision Development, and worked with the beta version of the company’s at-home EyeQ Trainer. It was a great experience that this editor would recommend for patients going through vision rehabilitation or individuals seeking a more vivid understanding of their vision.
Following up on the product review, we had a chance to dive deeper into the technology and clarify some lingering questions with Dr. Melissa Hunfalvay, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at RightEye.
Medgadget: Where did the idea for R...
Source: Medgadget - September 4, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Neurology Neurosurgery Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
RightEye Vision Tests with Contextualized Results: Review and Interview
In conclusion, I really enjoyed the opportunity to use the RightEye system. Working with Dr. Kungle and the RightEye system resulted in the most comprehensive, informative session I’ve ever had about my own vision and left me with clear areas to improve, as well as some initial tools to realize that improvement.
Interview with Dr. Kungle
Mike Batista, Medgadget: How did you initially engage with RightEye?
Dr. Jennifer Kungle: My engagement with the team at RightEye began as part of an initiative for better vision screenings in schools. Most vision screeners just look at acuity, but patients can still have vision p...
Source: Medgadget - August 16, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Neurology Neurosurgery Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
Omalu puts a religious spin on his assessment of the football: " It is not of God. "
“We shouldn’t let children play [football] because we are damaging their brains and robbing them of their humanity. That is a fact.” That ' s what Dr. Bennet Omalu had to say to a reporter associate withSojourners, a faith-based organization. In therecently released article from Sojourners, Omalu said that football is a sport " not of God " . A committed Catholic, Omalu says that he lets "the Spirit of God percolate into my being... Everything I do, I do through the eyes of faith. ”Bennet Omalu, MDOmalu is best known for the startling discovery he made after performing an autopsy on former NFL player Mik...
Source: neuropathology blog - August 8, 2018 Category: Radiology Tags: trauma Source Type: blogs
Newspaper Op-Eds Should Disclose Authors ’ Industry Ties
Earlier this month, The Seattle Times published an op-ed by Samuel Browd, medical director of Seattle Children’s Sport Concussion Program, on the risks of brain injury in youth sports. Dr. Browd acknowledged troubling research on the dangers of repetitive brain trauma, but also emphasized that millions of children “have played contact sports without overt symptoms” and… Read more
The post Newspaper Op-Eds Should Disclose Authors’ Industry Ties appeared first on The Hastings Center. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - July 24, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Susan Gilbert Tags: Health Care Media professional ethics Public Health conflicts of interest football Hastings Bioethics Forum Health and Health Care industry medicine op-eds syndicated Source Type: blogs
Practical and Applicable Solutions: How SLPs Benefited from ASHA Health Care Connect
SLPs came to ASHA’s Health Care Connect conference ready to learn about dysphagia, head and neck cancer, Parkinson’s disease, concussion, delirium—and much more. Across three days of sessions, SLPs heard how their unique skills and training prepared them to work as an integral part of multidisciplinary teams.
Editor’s note: This is part two of a series on tips SLPs learned at ASHA Connect 2018. Read part one for insights heard from attendees of the schools’ sessions.
Ruth Snyder, an SLP and solo practitioner in Jacksonville, Florida, began her Friday morning at Vivian Sisskin’s session, “Differential ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jillian Kornak Tags: Academia & Research Events Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology dementia Dysphagia Parkinson's Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
What Your Colleagues Learned at ASHA ’s Schools Connect 2018
Apraxia of speech assessments for nonverbal students. Ready-to-implement concussion-management strategies. Modeling voice changes for students. These are just some of the take-aways participants in “Schools Connect” look forward to immediately putting into practice.
Designed for speech-language pathologists who work in schools, health care and private practice, the annual ASHA Connect features hands-on, practical educational sessions that provide practical tools for attendees to use as soon as they get home. The 2018 conference, held last week in Baltimore,
The Leader asked some of the Schools Connect participants abou...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 23, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Events Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Apraxia of Speech Childhood Apraxia of Speech clinical fellowship Cognitive Rehabilitation Early Intervention Professional Development Traumatic Brain Injury Voice Disorders Source Type: blogs
Warning signs of a concussion
Every year, hundreds of thousands of children get concussions. They get them from falls, from playing sports, from being hit by objects, from bumping into things. What many people don’t realize is that it doesn’t necessarily take a big impact to get a concussion. One of my daughters got a concussion from bumping into a low-hanging tree branch — and another got one from being elbowed in the head during a swim team practice.
Concussions happen when there is not only impact, but also movement, like jerking back and forth. That’s why helmets such as bike or football helmets don’t necessarily prevent concussions. Helm...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Brain and cognitive health Children's Health Headache Parenting Source Type: blogs
