Saturday, October 20, 2012
“It’s a huge scam,” says physician Robert Sallis. Concussion Testing Issues « The Concussion Blog - On closer inspection, though, the whole thing begins to fall apart. “It’s a huge scam,” says physician Robert Sallis, past president of the American College of Sports Medicine. “They’ve done incredible marketing, and they’ve managed to establish this test as the standard of care with no evidence that it has any benefit.” --In one independent study, 118 healthy student volunteers took a baseline ImPACT test and then returned to retake the test twice more, 45 and 50 days later. In the follow-ups, more than one-third of the concussion-free participants showed up as false positives, which made it seem as if they really had the symptoms of a concussion and were maybe lying about the symptoms.
Friday, October 19, 2012
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