Smartphone App To Detect Concussion

A new smartphone application to detect concussion will soon be available making the smart phone even smarter. Along with some other head trauma researchers, a concussion expert at the University of North Carolina (UNC) is working towards developing a mobile application that will help you to determine if someone has suffered from concussion.

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Jason Mihalik who is presently working on brain injury research center at UNC together with Justin Smith of Psychological Assessment Resources Inc. and the Children's National Medical Center is working on this novel application. This application, if launched will be the first application of its kind as told by Smith. He says it's the first observer-based concussion application. From the materials provided from the Centers for Disease Control, Smith and Mihalik have prepared a series of questions to be answered by the user. The application will determine the possibility of the user suffering from concussion after analyzing the answers and if needed it will email the information to the user’s prescribed doctor. The effective working of this application will prove to be beneficial to find out the possible concussion cases in a speedy manner.

Ways to reduce the communication gap between the team doctors and the team athletic players were discussed at the National Sports Concussion Cooperative's daylong seminar. These people are in constant contact with the players and often are the first ones to notice the symptoms of concussion and then react to them. Bill Griffin of the National Athletic Trainers' Association said, "The documentation (of immediate symptoms) is very important, from, 'How did they get hurt?' to the mechanism of injury through those initial signs and symptoms, to 'How did they progress over time?' It's not only what happens at the time of the injury, but how things change." The National Sports Concussion Cooperative which was formed in March consists of coaches, doctors, equipment manufacturers and parents. Efforts are made by the cooperative to make sports safer by studying concussions and brain trauma injuries in players.

Art Chou, Rawlings' vice president of research and development stated, "We're trying to do more. We think there is an opportunity to do more. The caution that we have as manufacturers is, are we ready to draw definitive conclusions? There's a balance there, and I think it's up to the research community to determine whether it is ready for prime time or not, because the issue is going to be one of public perception.”
This application which is still on testing stage will come out as a relief to a lot of sportsmen and youths. Smartphone will definitely get smarter with the introduction of this incredible medical based application.

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