Kayla Stockdale

TL;DR: Clinicians must consider the benefit of ImPACT testing for their patients on a case-by-case scenario and must take the psychometric properties of the test into account when interpreting results.

TL;DR: Clinicians should be cautious when ImPACT is used as a criterion for medical clearance to return to play after concussion and the Pearson r correlation coefficient and average measures intraclass correlation coefficient may be inappropriately utilized to examine the reliability of ImP ACT scores.

TL;DR: Although the instrumented BESS may appear to demonstrate concurrent validity against the original BESS, instrumentation did not improve its reliability and future research should examine if the instrumentation demonstrates validity against laboratory level force plates and if it is able to overcome the ceiling effect reported for the clinical BESS test.

TL;DR: A random-effects pooled meta-analysis revealed that, with the exception of worsened visual memory for those with 1 previous concussion, no differences were observed between participants with 1 or multiple concussions compared with participants without previous concussions.

TL;DR: If the athlete reports symptoms within 1 week of injury, administering a cognitive test does not appear to offer additional information to the clinician, however, if the athlete does not report symptoms postconcussion, cognitive testing may inform the clinical management of the injury.