Project Baseline Aims to Ward Off Illness Before We Get Sick

San Jose Mercury News article discusses the Taube Stanford Children’s Concussion Initiative, the nation’s first study of its kind, which aims to measure rotation and full motion cranial impacts in youth football athletes. The study will establish a pediatric concussion network in the Bay Area that will closely monitor high school athletes longitudinally. The data gathered will be analyzed to develop algorithms that will some day help clinicians predict an individual athlete’s risk for concussion, time of recovery, and lead to personalized approaches to prevent and treat concussion.