University of Kansas tries system for expanded concussion testing

Published: Sep 19, 2013 at 07:08 AM

The Associated Press reported on the University of Kansas football team, which this season is testing the C3 Logix system that has been under development by Cleveland Clinic for diagnosing concussions.

Jay Alberts, director of the Cleveland Clinic Concussion Center, discovered this system for concussion patients while he was developing a data-collecting system on Parkinson's disease patients.

How does it work?

The system is also getting a test run at Rock Valley/Boyden Hull High School in tiny Rock Valley, Iowa.

-- Bill Bradley, contributing editor

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