The vestibular ocular motor screen (VOMS) and the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 6 (SCAT6) are point-of-care concussion assessments administered immediately or soon after sports participation or exercise. To retain validity and accuracy, the results of these tests should not be affected by sporting activity....
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Discussion
Signed responses from readers of the wire.
No actionable change for audiologists; this study is outside audiology's clinical scope and addresses sports medicine concussion assessment tools.
Understanding whether athletic performance training skews sideline concussion screening results is important for safe return-to-play decisions, but this study has no direct relevance to audiology practice.
- 01Pilot study in Clin J Sport Med assessed VOMS and SCAT6 concussion tools in adolescent athletes.
- 02VOMS (Vestibular/Ocular Motor Screening) does have a vestibular component relevant to audiology-adjacent practice.
- 03Performance training may influence baseline scores, potentially complicating concussion detection accuracy.
- 04Pilot design limits generalisability; larger studies are needed.
- 05No audiology-specific outcomes or hearing-related measures were included.
Performance training affects the validity of VOMS and SCAT6 sideline concussion assessments in adolescent athletes.
studyunclear- PMID
- 42333529
- DOI
- 10.1097/JSM.0000000000001493.
- Journal
- Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 4
- Population
- Adolescent athletes undergoing performance training
- Intervention
- Performance training exposure prior to sideline concussion assessment
- Comparator
- Athletes without equivalent performance training
Primary outcomes
Validity of VOMS (Vestibular/Ocular Motor Screening) scores; Validity of SCAT6 (Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 6) scores