Normative blink reflex data for the EyeStat Device in student athletes. Issue 1 (31st December 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Normative blink reflex data for the EyeStat Device in student athletes. Issue 1 (31st December 2022)
- Main Title:
- Normative blink reflex data for the EyeStat Device in student athletes
- Authors:
- Yengo-Kahn, Aaron M.
Garner, Dena P.
Lessing, Noah
Blough, Jackson
Zuckerman, Scott L.
Gifford, Katherine - Editors:
- Jin, Zhongmin
- Abstract:
- Abstract: The blink reflex presents a promising, objective, neurophysiologic measure for use in sports-related concussion diagnosis and monitoring. The purpose of this study was to describe blink reflex metrics obtained using the EyeStat across various demographic factors in a group of healthy high school and collegiate athletes. Participants were 975 healthy high school and collegiate athletes ages 13–23 who underwent pre-season baseline blink reflex testing with EyeStat from 2018 to 2020. Separate two- and three-way analyses of variance tested the effects of age, sex and race on each blink reflex parameter including latency ( ms ), differential latency ( ms ), time under threshold ( ln(ms) ), oscillations (qty), and excursions ( px ). Bivariate correlations demonstrated uniformly negligible (|r|<0.2) inter-measure correlations, except between latency and oscillations (r = −0.37). Latency was significantly slower in males versus females (p = 0.001), while latency in 19–21 year olds (college) was faster as compared to 13–15 year olds (high school) (p = 0.008). Differential latency was faster in females versus males (p = 0.033), and Caucasians had faster differential latency values as compared with African Americans (p < 0.0005). The number of oscillations were significantly higher in females versus males (p < 0.0005), and African Americans demonstrating significantly more oscillations as compared to Caucasians (p = 0.006). Excursions were greater in females compared to malesAbstract: The blink reflex presents a promising, objective, neurophysiologic measure for use in sports-related concussion diagnosis and monitoring. The purpose of this study was to describe blink reflex metrics obtained using the EyeStat across various demographic factors in a group of healthy high school and collegiate athletes. Participants were 975 healthy high school and collegiate athletes ages 13–23 who underwent pre-season baseline blink reflex testing with EyeStat from 2018 to 2020. Separate two- and three-way analyses of variance tested the effects of age, sex and race on each blink reflex parameter including latency ( ms ), differential latency ( ms ), time under threshold ( ln(ms) ), oscillations (qty), and excursions ( px ). Bivariate correlations demonstrated uniformly negligible (|r|<0.2) inter-measure correlations, except between latency and oscillations (r = −0.37). Latency was significantly slower in males versus females (p = 0.001), while latency in 19–21 year olds (college) was faster as compared to 13–15 year olds (high school) (p = 0.008). Differential latency was faster in females versus males (p = 0.033), and Caucasians had faster differential latency values as compared with African Americans (p < 0.0005). The number of oscillations were significantly higher in females versus males (p < 0.0005), and African Americans demonstrating significantly more oscillations as compared to Caucasians (p = 0.006). Excursions were greater in females compared to males (p = 0.003) and Caucasians demonstrated greater excursions as compared to African Americans (p = 0.008). Natural log of time under threshold resulted in significant differences in race, with Caucasians having lower values compared to African Americans (p = 0.026). The current results provide baseline values when applying this new technology to the assessment and monitoring of concussion. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Cogent engineering. Volume 9:Issue 1(2022)
- Journal:
- Cogent engineering
- Issue:
- Volume 9:Issue 1(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 9, Issue 1 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0009-0001-0000
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- Publication Date:
- 2022-12-31
- Subjects:
- baseline data for concussion -- blink reflex -- blink reflexometer -- high school athletes -- college/university athletes
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- http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/73324 ↗
http://cogentoa.tandfonline.com/journal/oaen20 ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/oaen20/1/1 ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
http://cogentoa.tandfonline.com/journal/oaps20 ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/23311916.2021.2024971 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2331-1916
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