Preseason Vestibular Ocular Motor Screening in Children and Adolescents
Iverson, Cook, Howell, Collings, Kusch, Sun, Virji-Babul, Panenka (2021) Preseason Vestibular Ocular Motor Screening in Children and Adolescents Clin J Sport Med (IF: 2.7) 31(4) e188-e192Abstract
The primary purpose of this study was to examine vestibular/ocular motor screening (VOMS) test performance in a sample of healthy youth ice hockey players. A particular focus was to investigate the potential effects of age and pre-existing health conditions, including concussion history, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disability (LD), headaches/migraines, and depression/anxiety on preseason baseline VOMS performance, including the near point of convergence (NPC) distance.Cross-sectional cohort.Outpatient physiotherapy clinic.Three hundred eighty-seven male youth hockey players, with an average age of 11.9 years (SD = 2.2, range = 8-17), completed the VOMS and responded to self- or parent-reported demographic and medical history questionnaires during preseason baseline assessments.Age, sex, and mental and physical health history including ADHD, headaches, depression, anxiety, migraine, and LD.Vestibular/ocular motor screening.The large majority of boys scored within normal limits on the VOMS, ie, they reported no symptom provocation of more than 2 points on any VOMS subset (89%) and had a normal NPC distance, ie, <5 cm (78%). The individual VOMS subtests had low abnormality rates, and demographic and pre-existing health conditions, such as age, headache or migraine history, previous neurodevelopmental conditions, or mental health problems, were not associated with clinically meaningful symptom provocation during the VOMS.There was a low rate of abnormal findings for the individual VOMS subtests, with the exception of NPC distance, among male youth hockey players during preseason assessment.Copyright © 2019 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31233433http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JSM.0000000000000767
