The Quick Board

Nathan Roddy stepped up cold at the shoulder CE course in Maryville, TN. No warm-up. 150 clinicians watching him perform the Array: Double Arm React to Green (Discrimination task) on QuickBoard.

You are watching real-time cognitive-motor data: reaction time, bilateral accuracy, and processing speed under load.

The more color options on screen, the slower the response. A university study used QuickBoard to measure cognitive-motor performance under similar conditions and found the Go/No-Go was overall a tougher task versus the Array (Discrimination) task. The Go/No-Go task complexity increased as more Go colors were added for an exercise, e.g., react to Purple, Orange, and Green.

More choices equals slower decisions equals a harder cognitive task.

This is cognitive-motor assessment happening in real time.

When you strip cognitive demand out of movement testing, you only measure what the athlete can do when they have time to think about it. Sport does not provide that luxury.

What cognitive-motor demands are missing from your current upper extremity assessments?