Repository logo
  • Log In
    New user? Click here to register.Have you forgotten your password?
University College Dublin
    Colleges & Schools
    Statistics
    All of DSpace
  • Log In
    New user? Click here to register.Have you forgotten your password?
  1. Home
  2. Institutes and Centres
  3. Insight Centre for Data Analytics
  4. Insight Research Collection
  5. Challenging Concussed Athletes: The Future of Balance Assessment in Concussion
 
  • Details
Options

Challenging Concussed Athletes: The Future of Balance Assessment in Concussion

Author(s)
Johnston, William  
Coughlan, Garrett  
Caulfield, Brian  
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/8398
Date Issued
2016-12-30
Abstract
The assessment and management of sports-related concussion has become a contentious issue in the field of sports medicine. The current consensus in concussion evaluation involves the use of a subjective examination, supported by multifactorial assessment batteries designed to target the various components of cerebral function. Balance assessment forms an important component of this multifactorial assessment, as it can provide an insight into the function of the sensorimotor subsystems post-concussion. In recent times, there has been a call to develop objective clinical assessments that can aid in the assessment and monitoring of concussion. However, traditional static balance assessments are derived from neurologically impaired populations, are subjective in nature, do not adequately challenge high functioning athletes and may not be capable of detecting subtle balance disturbances following a concussive event. In this review, we provide an overview of the importance of assessing motor function following a concussion, and the challenges facing clinicians in its assessment and monitoring. Additionally, we discuss the limitations of the current clinical methods employed in balance assessment, the role of technology in improving the objectivity of traditional assessments, and the potential role inexpensive portable technology may play in providing objective measures of more challenging dynamic tasks.
Sponsorship
European Commission Horizon 2020
Other Sponsorship
World Rugby
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Oxford Academic
Journal
Quarterly Journal of Medicine
Volume
110
Issue
12
Start Page
779
Subjects

Personal sensing

Brain concussion

Sports

Motor function

Athlete

Test for balance

Consensus

DOI
10.1093/qjmed/hcw228
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/
File(s)
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name

insight_publication.pdf

Size

632 KB

Format

Adobe PDF

Checksum (MD5)

098c7299659308e52b3a5ad85570577e

Owning collection
Insight Research Collection
Mapped collections
Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science Research Collection

Item descriptive metadata is released under a CC-0 (public domain) license: https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/.
All other content is subject to copyright.

Built with DSpace-CRIS software - Extension maintained and optimized by 4Science

  • Cookie settings
  • Privacy policy
  • End User Agreement