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Originally Posted by ASS11

Do you really think the Chiefs are about to risk Alex's long term health against a bottom feeder?

Health?

First off, that program and that protocol is a meticulous process in development. It was developed by neurosurgeons, neurologists and some of the top sports medicine physicians. It’s basically a checklist. There are a couple layers of that checklist that you have to go through. The first part of it is on the sideline when a player has some kind of event that may appear to be a concussion. There’s a certain set of five questions that our team physician and our unaffiliated neuro-trauma consultant (UNC) go through. That’s called the ‘Maddocks’ test. Maddocks questions are five questions. If they clear those, you either decide to take that player inside, or you continue to figure out what’s going on with that player. In Alex’s case yesterday, in both episodes, he did fine on all five Maddocks questions. We decided to take him inside the first time because he had that stagger episode and he had a big laceration on his ear. The second time, it was because it was the second time we were asking him the questions and we just decided to take him inside. But both times he cleared the questions.

“Once you get them inside, there’s a process that goes on with both the team physician and the unaffiliated neuro-trauma consultant. A lot of the process is on an iPad -- it’s called ‘SCAT3’ which is developed worldwide by neurosurgeons. The ‘SCAT’ part of it stands for Sports Concussion Assessment Test and this is the third version of it. That’s already downloaded to our iPads and every player on the roster has that test on a baseline. A team physician and a UNC went through that with Alex and both times he passed through it with a passing grade -- and he was fine.

“That test, just to give you a little idea, there’s memory recall on it, there’s balance, there’s symptom questioning of the athlete, there’s vestibular ocular motor stuff where they follow with their eyes and do some eyes and convergence testing. He got through that both times.

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