Interpreting change in the SCAT3

In this month’s first featured article Hanninen’s group report that the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 3 has low test-retest reliability and they caution clinicians to examine the natural distribution of the difference scores to support interpretation of the test against baseline scores. In the second featured article, Ngoc-Thuy-Vi, Olds, Schranz and Maher suggest that the upwards trend in overweight children in Australia is continuing in the states of Tasmania, Western Australia and South Australia. In the final featured article Shearer and co-workers describe a study comparing physiologic and perceptual measures of recovery, suggesting a perceptual measure may be as effective as and more cost effective that a physiologic measure.