Neurotechnology company SyncThink is best known for its ability to detect possible concussion symptoms. Now the company has added tools to its virtual reality applications that help both healthy people...
When the Golden State Warriors’ head of sports medicine, Chelsea Lane, first approached assistant general manager Kirk Lacob in the front office with a new device last summer, she explained that Eye-Sync would help the team quickly and objectively assess whether a player might be suffering from concussion symptoms. The Warriors had endured a few […]
As awareness of concussions and other traumatic brain injuries increase in sports, especially football, professional sports leagues have implemented protocols and standards designed to help teams keep their players from further harm. But what about colleges, where the risk is the same but the resources and standards are often different? The Pac-12 might have an […]
The Golden State Warriors are the first NBA team to onboard SyncThink’s EYE-SYNC concussions assessment solution. Developed by Dr. Jamshid Ghajar MD, Ph.D. of Stanford University, EYE-SYNC provides the Warriors an on-court, 60-second objective concussion evaluation. It’s done through a VR headset and uses eye-tracking technology. The tech tests ocular-motor synchronization deficits along with other key […]
The University of Texas is the most recent school to embrace SyncThink’s concussion evaluation technology in college athletics to bring more objectivity to traumatic brain injury tests. Texas joins the ranks of Iowa State University, which will use EYE-SYNC technology along with Stanford University, which started utilizing the eye-tracking headsets in 2015. Palo Alto, Calif. and Massachusetts-based SyncThink […]
