A new study finds that football players’ oculomotor response (eyeball and eyelid movement) — a function typically examined by doctors to detect symptomless brain injury — can be impaired by mild, repetitive head impacts, but the function returns to normal by the last quarter of the season, even as athletes continue to experience head impacts.
The findings are published in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology.
Head injuries in sports have been a major focus of research throughout the world....
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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/12/28/rethinking-how-to-assess-mild-head-impacts-in-football/141518.html
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