Clinical Trials

The primary aim of this study is to develop a deeper understanding of the kinetics and kinematics of the baseball swing.  Secondary aims include: describing the relative stress/forces across major lower extremity joints and spine during the baseball swing, assessing the intra- and inter-batter variability in the swing, determining how kinetics/kinematics vary across different batting scenarios, determining how kinetics/kinematics vary across different batting efforts, correlating swing kinetics with bat velocity, correlating swing kinetics with ball exit velocity, assessing the validity and reliability of various wearable devices compared to motion capture, determining the impact of bat weight on swing kinetics/kinematics, ...

The purpose of this study is to decrease injury risk in adolescent athletes through early identification of dysfunctional movement patterns

This is a study of the incidence and type of low back and lower extremity injuries for runners who begin to train for a half- or full marathon.

The objectives of this study are to examine the effects of voodoo floss band compression on elbow and shoulder range in motion, elbow and shoulder soreness, and elbow and shoulder isometric strength.

Is it feasible to perform acupuncture in the training field after sport performance in adolescent football players? Does acupuncture provide a decrease in muscle soreness and improvement in overall sense of well-being in the adolescent football population?

The primary purpose of this study is to report if higher helmet forces recorded throughout a 10 week, 10 game youth football season via Riddell InSite® will correlate with poorer performance on King-Devick concussion testing.

The purpose of this study is to assess the validity and reliability of a wearable device, the MotusBASEBALL sensor, against a marker-based motion capture, Motion Analysis Corp., for assessing baseball pitchers.

The purpose of this study is to

• Compare sports related injury rate/type/patterns and prevalence of injury between adolescent athletes with and without GJH.
• Compare prevalence of chronic pain between adolescent athletes with and without GJH.
• Support previous evidence that there is a similar prevalence of GJH in adolescent high-school level athletes of various sports compared with general population of adolescents.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the reliability of a modified King-Devick (K-D) Balance Test in hockey players. The KD test is typically performed in stocking feet.  The modified test under study will be conducted while hockey players are wearing hockey skates in order to evaluate if this modified test might contribute to a quick concussion screen at a hockey rink.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the utilization patterns and satisfaction of telemedicine on the sideline, and to evaluate the effect of sideline telemedicine on reducing unnecessary emergency department visits.

The purpose of this study is to validate the patient approved knee assessment (PAKA) by providing the questionnaire to patients to assess patient needs, formulate a questionnaire based on this information, and finally validate the questionnaire in assessing the same outcomes as existing questionnaires for clinical use.

The purpose of the current study is, 1) Determine the effectiveness of injury prevention programs for prevention of hamstring muscle strains, 2) Identify how these programs impact athletes' flexibility, muscle stiffness, strength, and power, and 3) Determine the ability of a state-of-the-art imaging technology, shear wave elastography to predict future hamstring muscle strain injury.

The purpose of this study is to conduct a comprehensive clinical and biomechanical screening of high school, collegiate-level, recreational, and Olympic/professional-level athletes with the goal of identifying individual functional and performance deficits that lead to future injury.

The purpose of this study is to further demonstrate the value of the components of our objective diagnosis and quantification of severity: the NeuroCatch quantified electroencephalogram, the King-Devick test, blood biomarkers, and metabolomics profiling. Wearable accelerometers (Triax SIM-G) and video footage will provide data to correlate concussive injuries with physical parameters and mechanisms of injury. Time on Ice tracking will allow for calculation of Individual Exposure Time (IET).

The overall objective is to provide an onsite diagnosis with subsequent return to play criteria, as well as, lower the risk of traumatic brain injury by primary prevention through cervical spine neuromuscular control and vision training. The central hypothesis is that improved understanding of neurocognitive measures and function will provide improved diagnosis of concussion and help reduce the incidence of subsequent sports-related injury.

Concussion is a health issue impacting all athletes for which a clinical treatment protocol, other than rest, has not been established. The efficacy of such a treatment protocol relies heavily on an objective diagnosis and quantification of injury severity. We hypothesize our chosen objective diagnostic and injury quantification measures will show significant differences between non-concussed and concussed athletes to aid in future treatment protocols. We also hypothesize that data from individual exposure time, video footage, and personality measures will provide additional information to further characterize concussive injuries and support diagnostic and treatment protocols.

The purpose of this study is to investigating the impact on the brain of knock-outs, technical knock-outs and chokes in mixed martial arts.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the reliability of a mobile app to assess balance in athletes during a concussion assessment

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the value of our objective diagnosis of concussion (ODC) components and to quantify severity. ODC components include: the NeuroCatch™ Platform [quantified electroencephalogram (qEEG)] developed by NeuroCatch Inc., the King-Devick Test (in association with Mayo Clinic) of rapid number naming, and blood biomarkers such as neurofilament light (NfL), neuron-specific enolase (NSE), and S100B.  Wearable accelerometers (Triax Technologies’ SIM-G, X2 Biosystems X Patch, and Prevent Biometrics’ Impact Monitor Mouthguard) and three camera video footage will also provide acceleration data to correlate to concussive injuries and mechanism of injury. Time on Ice tracking will allow for ...

The purpose of this study is to determine if there are changes in mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and/or repetitive head impacts (RHI) detectible with multiparametric MR Elastography (MRE). The hypothesis is that multiparametric MR Elastography will detect changes in the mechanical properties of human head tissues in patients following head traumas.

The purpose of this study is evaluate changes in male and female athletes’ brains following concussion injury and recovery, and to see whether female athletes demonstrate a different pattern of recovery compared to male athletes.