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‘My Whole Life Was A Mess’: Rehabbing Vision After Concussions

Only the unidentified voice remains. The baseball game is gone. The drive to the field vanished. That morning’s school day disappeared. The previous weeks, too. Just four words, maybe from the catcher, linger in Jared Schwartz’s memory. “Are you OK, Jared?” Jared, then 12, was standing in the left-handed batter’s box of the local Little […]

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NHL Is Using A 40-Year-Old Method To Test For Concussions

Created in the 1970s for the purpose of examining reading ability, the King-Devick test is now being used 40 years later for something a bit different—concussion testing. A King-Devick test taker will rapidly read numbers that are spaced at varying levels of difficulty. Since the eyes are closely linked to the brain, a change in […]

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Victor Cruz Catches Touchdowns While Wearing Hi-Tech Contacts

Of late, eye-tracking technology has been gaining some traction due to the number of devices that can support it. New hardware interfaces enables such software to subsist within this ecosystem, allowing users and tech specialists to view and retrieve data (among other use cases) that wouldn’t be discernable with just the naked eye. There’s greater […]

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