App-based assessment tool may be useful for rapid sideline concussion diagnosis

CHICAGO – An app-based cognitive assessment tool set baseline scores for college football players and may be useful in rapid sideline concussion diagnosis, according to a poster at the 2022 American Neurological Association meeting.
“There is a major deficit in our ability to diagnose concussions on the sideline,” Scott N. Grossman, MD, of the department of neurology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, told Healio. “The current standard is a number of different approaches, including tests of balance, vestibular or ocular dysfunction. But none of those

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