학술논문
Normative blink reflex data for the EyeStat Device in student athletes
Document Type
article
Author
Source
Cogent Engineering, Vol 9, Iss 1 (2022)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2331-1916
23311916
23311916
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|