Signs of Concussion in Adults

Walking and thinking at the same time may prove particularly difficult for people who have suffered concussions. Now, scientists hope to use radar to detect simple enough quickly the presence of head injury in humans, using for this purpose in the difficulty, sometimes subtle, implies that for such people to walk and think at the same time.

This simple test that could be done on the spot where the person has been hit, has the potential to assist medical staff in sports or elsewhere, to decide whether athletes or soldiers, firefighters or other professionals can continue their activities or need to be discharged.

When a person with a concussion simultaneously performs a task requiring cognitive skills and one that requires motor skills, has a different walk of a healthy individual and the team of Jennifer Palmer by radar can identify these abnormalities in gait.

In the world are diagnosed each year many concussions and other mild head injury. Only in the United States are more than a million.

Detect concussions immediately after they happen can improve treatment and prevent further injury or other health problems over time.

However, diagnose concussions can be difficult because the symptoms of a concussion are not always readily visible or detectable, although that last weeks or months after the subject had been hit.

Most existing methods for detecting concussions focus exclusively on detecting cognitive impairment, and do not assess the deterioration of motor skills.