{"id":24743,"date":"2019-01-15T16:56:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T21:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=24743"},"modified":"2019-02-07T10:09:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T15:09:57","slug":"utcs-wilkerson-studies-brain-changes-after-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/utcs-wilkerson-studies-brain-changes-after-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC&#8217;s Wilkerson studies brain changes after injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24746\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" data-attachment-id=\"24746\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/utcs-wilkerson-studies-brain-changes-after-injuries\/boxer1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/01\/boxer1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,422\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1539081638&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"boxer1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/01\/boxer1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-24746\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/01\/boxer1.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/01\/boxer1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/01\/boxer1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/01\/boxer1-580x326.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/01\/boxer1-610x343.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/01\/boxer1-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/01\/boxer1-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Wilkerson has worked with the University of Alabama football team and athletes at the U.S. Olympic Village in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is in the early stages of working with various arms of the U.S. military, including the ROTC unit at UTC.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cMan, <\/span>this is harder than it looks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cThis\u201d looks like a video game. But the 18 members of the U.S. Olympic boxing team aren\u2019t fooling around. No chips or soft drinks are on hand. This is serious stuff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">In one of the Chattanooga Convention Center\u2019s voluminous exhibition halls, the athletes\u2014male and female\u2014 are running through a series of visually-oriented tests to gauge how quickly their brains react when given a task that requires a near-instantaneous physical reaction as well as quick thinking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cThese issues are certainly important for athletes, but they\u2019re equally important for anybody who does a dangerous job, like firefighters or policemen or certainly military operations\u2019 personnel. You\u2019re going to have to be very, very aware of what\u2019s changing in your environment, and very often you have to make rapid decisions,\u201d says Gary Wilkerson, a UTC professor in graduate-level athletic training and a researcher in that field for more than 25 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Helping athletes increase their reaction time is one goal of the testing, but Wilkerson has another, one that focuses on an injury that\u2019s been in the national news for several years\u2014concussions. Some of the news about concussions arises from their relationship to CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, believed to result from repeated physical blows that shake the brain. Wilkerson wants to document how brain injuries of all types, including concussions, can affect the entire body, sometimes in \u201cvery, very subtle ways,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Through testing, he is mapping out possible deficiencies in the brains of athletes, soldiers, even dancers and others who might have suffered some type of brain injury, especially ones whose effects are not instantly evident. Such injuries can have distinct effects on other parts of the body and not just obvious issues like memory or mental clarity, he says. By locating where the neurological problems are in the brain they can develop exercises to offset whatever physical problems may crop up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cSo what we\u2019re working on is perfecting tests to identify when abnormalities are there. And then, once we\u2019ve identified what the deficiency is, we know what to target and how to train,\u201d Wilkerson says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">In his research, he has worked with such groups as the University of Alabama football team and athletes at the U.S. Olympic Village in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is now in the early stages of working with various arms of the U.S. military, including the ROTC unit at UTC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cWe don\u2019t have \u2018on\u2019 or \u2018off\u2019 seasons,\u201d says Capt. Kevin Beavers, head of the Department of Military Science at UTC. \u201cWe train year-round to mold ourselves into the best leaders that we can be, and our training can become quite intense and injuries have occurred. We want to limit those types of\u00a0 injuries that might prevent our personnel from serving as commissioned officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cAs a leader, having the ability to make command decisions during stressful environments is paramount to our success on the battlefield,\u201d Beavers continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">For Olympic boxers, the goal is simple: Learn to react more quickly so you hit your opponent more than they hit you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cWe\u2019re trying to get those milliseconds of reaction where we avoid getting hit and those that help us be able to hit,\u201d says U.S. Olympic Boxing Coach Billy Walsh. \u201cWe\u2019re looking for better foot reaction, better head and movement reaction, better hand-speed reaction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">One part of the testing is to add a mental element to the tests, Wilkerson says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cThe thing that we\u2019ve done, that gives us greater precision in understanding when somebody\u2019s got a deficiency, is we simultaneously give them a cognitive challenge where they have to think, \u2018What is the right direction that I\u2019m supposed to respond to when that light comes on? Am I supposed to go to the right? Am I supposed to go to the left?\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cThe accuracy of the responses is very much determined by the efficiency with which your brain is integrating that information,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">In the boxers\u2019 \u201cvideo game\u201d test, a white square on a field of green has two gray posts, each on opposite sides of the square, and in the middle is a smaller red circle with a figure standing directly over it. A boxer stands a couple of feet away, directly in front of the screen. When he moves, the figure on the screen moves the same way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">During the test, a line of five \u201carrows\u201d pops up every few seconds (they actually look like the \u201cless than\/more than\u201d symbols in math). The boxer must locate the direction of the center arrow\u2014it doesn\u2019t always point the same way as the rest\u2014then slide that direction until he \u201ctouches\u201d the gray pole and a \u201cding!\u201d is heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cWhen we add mental workload to a requirement for rapid response,\u201d Wilkerson says, \u201cit accentuates deficiencies. It allows us to see people who aren\u2019t functioning as well or not as optimally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Wilkerson began his career focusing mainly on knee and ankle injuries but, as time went on, he began to see wider applications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cWe started seeing more and more ankle injuries after concussions. So we said, \u2018Wait a minute, there\u2019s something about these impacts to the head that are causing injuries in the other part of the body.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cHead injuries change the way your brain is processing information, so you can have a lower-extremity injury that affects your brain; you can have a brain injury that affects your lower extremities,\u201d he says. \u201cFinding ways to address neurological problems in the brain may lead to methods to prevent long-term chronic deterioration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got evidence that we can improve those deficiencies. We know what deficiencies are,\u201d Wilkerson says. \u201cWe know they can help us tell the difference between those who have a concussion and those who don\u2019t. It\u2019s cutting-edge stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">\u201cHead injuries change the way your brain is processing information.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u201cMan, this is harder than it looks.\u201d \u201cThis\u201d looks like a video game. But the 18 members of the U.S. Olympic boxing team aren\u2019t fooling around. No chips or soft drinks are on hand. This is serious stuff. 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