106| Sport Related Concussion – A Conversation With Dr. Michael McCrea
Navigating Neuropsychology
The Role of Neuropsychology in Sport Concussion Research
As neuropsychologists we are often sort of handcuffed on not really having a great understanding of where our patients started. In most clinical settings that's just not achievable you know nobody walks into an emergency department with their original Wexler scale score on the back of their driver's license for instance. Jeff Barth and his partner in crime Steve Machocki at the University of Virginia back in the early 90s identified what they later called the SLAM model sports laboratory assessment model. Over time that was adopted as the clinical model so again early on it was really intended for research purposes but then athletic trainers and other clinicians in sports medicine realized well why don't we just do that as our clinical sort of
