Eye tracking device feasible in assessment of athletes’ recovery after mild TBI

Key takeaways:

The virtual reality device achieved a high degree of reliability and symptom burden correlation.

The device was well-tolerated, with minimal discomfort and no adverse events reported.

BALTIMORE — A virtual reality eye tracking device may be a reliable tool to assist clinicians in determining the cognitive status of athletes who are recovering from mild traumatic brain injury, according to a poster presentation.

“When athletes face some sort of traumatic brain injury on the field and that they are completing the return to play protocols, we see that current tests from their baseline lack objective markers,” Betania Arce, a student in the department of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, said at the American Neurologic Association annual meeting. “We hope