Geoffrey Lauer with the Brain Injury Alliance of Iowa interviews David Baumgartner, MD, Emergency Medicine Physician at UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Hospital on emergency treatment for concussions.
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Dark room therapy is a thing of the past. The concussion rehabilitation world no longer sees this as the way we should be handling patients, and there’s a good reason for it.

In years past, patients who had concussions may have been told by their medical practitioners to go into a dark room for a while and do, nothing. Like, absolutely nothing. This seemed to help right off the hop because, I mean, a dark room can’t make your symptoms worse can it?

The problem becomes leaving the dark room. Patients were told to leave their dark room when they felt better. Feeling good surrounded by darkness and silence though, is very different from feeling good in regular life. If you’re never being exposed to the things that cause symptoms in the first place, those symptoms are unlikely to get better. In fact, your body may even become MORE sensitive to these things than they were when you started the dark room therapy in the first place!

Modern concussion rehabilitation instead focuses on progressive exposure to stimulus that can cause exposure. An analogy that can be helpful in managing symptoms can be the stoplight analogy that I outline in the video, emphasizing time spent in the “yellow light” zone where there are some symptoms, but not too much of a worsening in overall feelings.

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Hard-hitting numbers were released Tuesday in a new study about football players and head trauma.
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University of Miami Sports Medicine researchers test concussion goggles on athletes including UM football wide receiver Braxton Berrios. Video by Al Diaz / Miami Herald Staff
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HLN’s Dr. Drew and CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the danger of concussions among teens.
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When we think of sport-related concussions, football probably comes to mind, and rightly so. Football leads almost every other sport in most studies looking at rates of concussion.

They can occur in other sports too, and athletes and parents must recognize that fact.

Soccer, hockey, rugby, cheerleading and other sports present risks for concussions. Both male and female athletes can suffer these traumatic brain injuries. Therefore, everyone involved in sports needs to recognize the signs and symptoms of concussions and take the appropriate steps to treat the injured athlete.

In this video, I discuss some of the risks in sports other than concussions. I also emphasize why these injuries are so important for parents, coaches and the athletes themselves.

Concussions aren’t limited to football

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The largest study to date on the dangers of hard hits and concussions in football concluded that 110 of 111 deceased former NFL players had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, raising even stronger concerns about the risks of brain injury from playing the sport. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Michael Alosco of Boston University CTE Center, who is a co-author of the study.
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NFL Head, Neck, and Spine Committe Co-Chair Dr. Richard Ellenbogen talks about the lack of a definitive tool, like a blood test, to diagnose brain injury, but what techniques we do have to keep athletes safe.
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The majority of brain injuries are not sport-related. How do we help individuals who are injured in car accidents, workplace incidents, assaults or falls? Laura Graham, PhD, explores how we can translate what we’ve learned from sport and apply it more broadly to enhance patient care.

Laura Graham, PhD, is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University. She is also a Scientist at Lawson Health Research Institute and works as a physiotherapist in the Acquired Brain Injury Program at Parkwood Institute, St. Joseph’s Health Care London.

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Concussion, also known as mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), is typically defined as a head injury that temporarily affects brain functioning.[8] Symptoms may include loss of consciousness (LOC); memory loss; headaches; difficulty with thinking, concentration or balance; nausea; blurred vision; sleep disturbances; and mood changes.[1] Any of these symptoms may begin immediately, or appear days after the injury.[1] It is not unusual for symptoms to last 2 weeks in adults and 4 weeks in children.[9][2] Fewer than 10% of sports-related concussions among children are associated with loss of consciousness.[10]

Common causes include motor vehicle collisions, falls, sports injuries and bicycle accidents.[3][4] Risk factors include drinking alcohol[5] and a prior history of concussion.[9] The mechanism of injury involves either a direct blow to the head or forces elsewhere on the body that are transmitted to the head.[9] This is believed to result in neuron dysfunction, as there is increased glucose requirements but not enough blood supply.[2] Diagnosis requires less than 30 minutes of LOC, memory loss of less than 24 hours, and a Glasgow coma scale score of 13 to 15.[6] Otherwise, it is considered a moderate or severe traumatic brain injury.[6]

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A concussion is any disturbance in brain function caused by trauma or injury. Learn how to treat a concussion and stay fit in this sports medicine video.
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