Nobody wants to miss a concussion. Mind Mirror uses your cell phone to measure Pupillary Light Reaction or PLR. Glenn Bowers joins Ben Stephenson and Jeremy Jackson to discuss the new concussion tool.

In 2022 Mind Mirror started because I was coaching my kids and missed a concussion with my own son.

We saw an opportunity to take AI tech and pupillary light reflex to assess concussion risk within 30 seconds.

Both, with the speed of the test and subjectivity taken out of the assessment, it can be a great tool for on-field assessments. It also provides an objective return-to-play measure providing clinicians with the ability to determine safe RTP without bias, subjectivity or dishonesty from patients.

One study found that the PLR test isn’t affected by exertion or emotions which can’t be said about all of subjective tests commonly used for concussion testing. 

While baseline testing isn’t required it is highly recommended. 

Baseline testing for this model is extremely efficient, it only takes 7 seconds for each athlete to be tested and automatically stored in the system.

Will be adding a roster system that can link the rosters with Healthy Roster, Rankone and other EMR software. 

There is no single test to definitively determine if a brain injury has occured, we are more practically used as an objective test to determine if symptoms associated with a brain injury are present. 

While most concussion testing is subjective we provide an objective measure. 

Velocity of constriction

Velocity of dilation

The system calculates all 14 biomarkers and provides a probability score ranking them into 3 categories green, yellow, and red. 

Green is less than 0.3 probability indicating the brain is likely healthy.

Yellow is between 0.3 – 0.6 probability which is in the middle and requires further testing.  

Red is above 0.6 and indicates there is a high chance that the patient has a concussion. 

Iris, an old colleague from Italy had a cool idea and I knew that if we could figure out the technology this could be big. 

We are already working with the U.S. military, collegiate, and high school settings.

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