The Hopkins Royals Football team spent Tuesday practicing in the hot sun. While coach John Denhartog watches for key plays, he's also on the lookout for injuries, especially concussions.
"For us as coaches we just keep our eyes up and try to do a good job of coaching safe football and if we notice somethings happening we help the kid to the trainer," he said.
Coach Denhartog and other school coaches could soon have a new way to test for brain injuries. Concussions are very hard to detect, but that might soon change.
Dr. Uzma Samadani, a neurosurgeon at Hennepin County Medical Center, has developed a quicker way to check for concussions using a device called the EyeBox, which uses a high resolution camera to track a person's eye movements over a period of time.
"In normal people if they're looking at something their eyes are going to move together," said Dr. Samadani. "In people who have a brain injury the eye movements are not coordinated."
The EyeBox is going through Food and Drug Administration approval and could be available to coaches in the next year or so. Dr. Samadani also wants to make a smartphone app for the device.
Sonya Goins, reporting
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