Safety on the field is at the top of many minds, and here in the Tri-State Area there are new efforts underway to protect young athletes. TimMcNicholas has more on changing the game when it comes to preventing concussions.
Lawney keeps her son Jared's room almost exactly as he left it -- full of memories.But not all memories in her Brick, New Jersey, home are happy."He comes home, I'm cooking dinner, and he says, 'Mom, I don't feel good.' And so I turn around and look at him and he's got a big gash on the side of his face and he is bleeding from his head," Lawney said.
Now, she advocates for widespread use of something called a baseline concussion test -- a test that uses numbers, shapes and colors to gauge an athlete's memory and reaction time before the season, so that if they do get hurt, athletic trainers can use their baseline to help detect how serious the brain injury is.
"Everybody would be at their computer," Zappala said."If a score is significantly off, this will light up red." Still, many doctors praise baseline tests as a valuable tool to use along with their other evaluations.
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