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I read with great interest the recent report on the call for elimination of football from high school argued by Drs. Stephen Miles and Shailendra Prasad (“U doctors call for no football in schools,” Nov. 22). They take issue with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) position statement that tackle football should not be eliminated from youth sports.

New eye tracking technology used as a research tool at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) could lead to a more exact means of diagnosing a traumatic brain injury. It may even represent the first truly useful clinical lab test that would even help monitor recovery from a concussion.

As Teddy Bridgewater slid at the end of a scramble, first Rams defensive back Lamarcus Joyner elbowed Teddy’s head, then Teddy’s head hit the turf.

Figuring out a way to rapidly diagnose a concussion has been a challenge that clinicians and researchers alike have been investigating for many decades. A multitude of definitions of concussion currently exist, but figuring out who truly has a concussion has been a vexing problem.

A precise way to diagnose concussions has been an elusive Holy Grail in medicine, despite a sharp increase in sports-related youth head injuries. But a Minneapolis neurosurgeon is reporting success with an experimental test that tracks eye movements of patients watching music videos.

How do you solve a problem like concussions in sports? Fears over the short- and long-term health effects of head impacts in collision sports have already led to rule changes, lawsuits, and decreased youth participation in football and hockey. Last month, a scientific study turned the spotlight onto baseball, concluding that major league players returning to action after having suffered a concussion performed statistically worse at the plate.

Using a new technology which tracks eye movements of patients viewing music videos just under four minutes, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have developed a new way to assess the location and impact of a brain injury.

Evaluating whether a person has suffered a concussion is not an exact science. Although there are clues related to abnormalities in balance and potential findings from a basic neurologic examination, detecting a concussion is often based on a patient’s subjective findings such as the presence of nausea, headaches, feelings of cloudiness, along with dizziness.

A new eye-tracking method might help determine the severity of concussions, researchers report.

They said the simple approach can be used in emergency departments and, perhaps one day, on the sidelines at sporting events.

A new eye-tracking method might help determine the severity of concussions, researchers report.