Doctor Robot may be the answer to diagnosing injuries immediately on the football field, specifically head trauma. 

Orange County, CA - April 14th 2017 - “Doctor Robot,” a mobile and remote controlled robot TV Screen, may be the answer to diagnosing sports injuries, specifically head trauma. This screen would be watching along the sidelines, enabling a neurologist hundreds of miles away to diagnoses concussions in athletes with the same accuracy as an MRI or CT scan instantaneously.

Head trauma is the number one injury linked to football players of all levels. CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, is defined by the Mayo Clinic as “brain degeneration likely caused by repeated head traumas.” This unfortunate disease has claimed the lives of 96 percent of examined NFL players, and 79 percent of examined players of various levels. As this disease can only be diagnosed postmortem, Dr. Bennet Omalu, a concussion specialist, estimates that more than 90 percent of all NFL players have CTE. Side effects include aggression, depression, confusion, loss of memory, and erratic behavior among various others.

While this disease haunts the sport, the “Doctor Robot” study seeks to analyze concussions with the ultimate goal being prevention. Associate professor of neurology and neurotherapeutics at the UT Southwestern Medical Center, Bert Vargas, MD, says, “Having personnel on hand to quickly identify and remove concussed players from games is an important part of protecting against such long-term injuries.” Dr. Vargas is the study’s lead author and director of the sports neuroscience and concussion program at the O’Donnell Brain Institute. His research is the first to measure the usefulness of telemedicine as a standard sideline concussion evaluation tool.

Doctor Robot may be the answer to diagnosing injuries immediately on the football field, specifically head trauma.

The worst case scenario for these incidences would be the lack of a medical professional’s presence at a game. Failure to identify and address potential traumas can lead to more severe injury with prolonged symptoms and can impede overall recovery. This study, originally published in Neurology, is ground breaking for rural communities in America where few athletic trainers or doctors are readily available. UT Southwestern reports that 63 percent of public high schools do not employ a full-time athletic trainer.

Eleven assessments implementing diagnostic tools to measure balance, cognition, and other factors were used in the robot’s testing. When comparing these results with diagnoses made by on-hand physicians, the prognosis matched every time. Cherisse Kutyreff, Director of Sports Medicine at Northern Arizona and one of the helping physicians in the study, delivers an important reminder regarding this information. “The study demonstrates that teleconcussion technology can work, but it doesn’t lessen the need to have trained personnel on the sidelines.”

Dr. Vargas’ goal is to get this technology into high school athletics where medical professionals are not usually on hand. The data collected from the study suggests a high level of correlation between face-to-face and remote diagnosis, providing good news for Dr. Vargas and his team.

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Doctor Robot may be the answer to diagnosing injuries immediately on the football field, specifically head trauma.  Orange County, CA – April 14th 2017 – “Doctor Robot,” a mobile and remote controlled robot TV Screen, may be the answer to diagnosing sports injuries, specifically head trauma. This screen would be watching along the sidelines, enabling a […]