Eye Movements Recording Using a Mobile : Comparison to Standard Video-oculography in Young Athletes

Eye Movements Recording Using a Smartphone: Comparison to Standard Video-oculography Data in Young Athletes

This study aims to compare measurements obtained through the e-VOG application (mobile application, usable on smartphones or tablets, to measure eye movements) with measurements from the standard video-oculography device (Eye-Tracker®T2), in young athletes.

e-VOG Young athletes is a collaborative study between the Memory Center of the Rainier III Center (Princess Grace Hospital, Monaco), the Neurology Department of Nice University Hospital (France), and the AS Monaco Football Academy medical team.

Memory Center of the Rainier III Center is expert in eye-tracking and is equipped with a standard video-oculography device (Eye-Tracker®T2), which records eye movements at a high frequency and measures saccades parameters (latency, speed, amplitudes etc...).

e-VOG is a mobile application, home-developed by the Neurology Department team of Nice University Hospital, to measure eye movements.

Based on literature, investigators hypothesize that video-oculography could integrate assessment protocols for head trauma occurring during sports practice. The nomadic nature of the e-VOG application would make possible to assess oculomotor behaviors to a subject who has just suffered a trauma and who is suspected of having a concussion.

From this perspective, it seems necessary to firstly validate baseline values of the e-VOG application in a population of athletes without major health problems, and who have not presented concussion.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Young Athletes from AS Monaco Football Academy
• referred by AS Monaco Medical Team to perform a video-oculography (Eye-Tracking) examination as part of routine care.
• covered by a health insurance system
• volunteer, able to give free, informed and written consent.
• For minors: whose holder of parental authority has given their written consent to participate following the information given by investigator.

Exclusion Criteria:

• General anaesthesia within 3 months.
• Head trauma within 3 months
• Neurological, ophthalmological or general pathology preventing the realization of a video-oculography examination.
• Oculomotor abnormality detectable on clinical examination by the neurologist prescribing the standard video-oculography examination.