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....
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