Abstract
Neurosensory tests have emerged as components of sport-related concussion management. Limited normative data are available in healthy, nonconcussed youth athletes. Patients & methods/results: In 2017 and 2018, we tested 108 youth tackle football players immediately before their seasons on the frequency-following response, Balance Error Scoring System, and King-Devick test. We compared results with published data in older and/or and nonathlete populations. Performance on all tests improved with age. Frequency-following response and Balance Error Scoring System results aligned with socioeconomic status. Performance was not correlated across neurosensory domains. Conclusion: Baseline neurosensory functions in seven 14-year-old male tackle football players are consistent with previously published data. Results reinforce the need for individual baselines or demographic-specific norms and the use of multiple neurosensory measures in sport-related concussion management.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 0008 |
| Journal | Concussion |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2019 |
Funding
Supported by Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Faculty Practice Plan and the Knowles Hearing Center. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.
Keywords
- clinical testing
- concussion
- frequency-following response
- sensory systems
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Neurology
- Neurology