Concussion Services
From pre-season baseline testing through to treatment and rehabilitation, the team works alongside your doctor to help people return to study, work and sport safely.
What is a concussion?
A concussion is a type of brain injury. It can follow a knock to the head, or a blow to the body that shakes the head, and it can briefly change how the brain works. Common symptoms include headache, dizziness, nausea, balance problems, neck pain, trouble concentrating, and sometimes a short loss of consciousness.
Concussion treatment
The team supports recovery after a concussion with strategies that include:
· Graded exercise for return-to-sport readiness and for symptoms that linger
· vestibular, oculomotor, and cervical spine rehabilitation
· balance, reaction time, visual processing, and neurocognitive testing (pre-season baseline and/or post-injury/return to sport testing)
During the early stage following injury, a period of relative symptom-limited physical and cognitive rest is recommended. Research suggests 24 to 48 hours, however, these decisions are made on a case-by-case basis.
Following a short period of rest, the International Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport (2016) recommends a gradual increase in mental and physical activity by a licensed healthcare practitioner trained in concussion management.
Pre-season Testing
Pre-season testing is a series of physical and thinking tasks that records how a healthy brain performs before any injury. If a concussion happens later, those results give a practitioner something to compare against.
As concussion symptoms often disappear days to weeks before the brain has recovered, having valuable baseline information may help practitioners to make safer return to play decisions.
Get in touch to find out whether baseline testing is right for you.