iPad Writes a New Game Plan for Concussions
But nothing like the illegal check that rocked him this season. Although he managed to finish the game, his head throbbed and he was falling asleep in class. He didn’t know it at the time, but he had a concussion. A bad one.
According to athletic trainer Jason Cruickshank, Duffy was lucky his concussion was caught. His team is part of a program that uses iPad with the C3 Logix app to measure and monitor concussion symptoms among all student athletes. “There are obvious and not-so-obvious concussions,” he says. Playing with one puts an athlete at risk for much worse injury. And young athletes are even more vulnerable because their brains are still developing.
In the past, it was easy to miss a concussion because of highly subjective reporting from athletes and errors made during paper-and-pencil data collection. But with iPad and the app, Cruickshank can make injury assessments based on precise measurements. “Using iPad with C3 Logix, we get hard, factual data that we can put in front of the athlete and say, ‘Look, this is where you should be.’”
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