New Approaches to brain damage diagnostics in athletes
Brain damage diagnostics and brain rehabilitation progress rating studies are ranked among the top priorities by modern sport medicine serving elite and youth sports. The authors offer a new approach to these problems based on their own study data on the brain, muscular and heart isoforms of creatine kenase using a set of computerized and standardized innovative biochemical and laboratory research methods, with due consideration for the available study data on the brain damage assessment biomarkers including neuron-specific enolase and protein S100. The new multi-marker laboratory strategy to measure the above biomarkers and trace variations in the athlete’s health will help assess the injury, success of the applied therapy and the rehabilitation progress on a timely and objective basis.