This Seminar provided guidance on evidence-based best practice for the diagnosis,
acute care and ongoing assessment and management of concussion/ “mild” Traumatic Brain Injury. It included:
- developing a treatment plan for concussion;
- comorbidities such as neck, oculomotor, or vestibular conditions;
- protocols for optimum return to play and “return to learn”;
- the assessment and differential diagnosis of post concussive disorders;
- the special consideration given to concussed women, children and adolescents; and
- the current knowledge about the potential long-term consequences of concussion, including neurodegenerative
diseases such as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).
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SEMINAR VIDEOS
Video 1 – Hockey: Patient – Doctor story
Dr Jason Chan and Jacob
Video 2 – Concussion in sport – A practical Translation of the Amsterdam consensus meeting
Dr Michael Makdissi
Video 3 – Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation for Persistent Post-concussive Symptoms and Patient Recovery
Professor John Oliver
Video 4 – The Complex Tapestry of Recovery from Child and Youth Concussion
Vicki Anderson and the Take Care Team
Video 5 Sex and Gender Differences in Brain Injury – and Why it matters
Katherine Price Sloan Snedaker, LCSW
Video 6 Plenary session
Some of the Questions & answers in the Plenary Session
0:11 How do you use CBT? Are there different modalities you could be using?
2:25 Any thoughts about the crossover between persistent concussive symptoms and functional neurological disorder?
5:39 You were describing concussion as being the symptoms plus an appropriate mechanism of action, but how do you actually decide what’s a sufficient mechanism of injury to give a concussion?
15:33 In the domestic violence domain, we have women presenting in court, et cetera. How do you propose that we support these women? Is there any screening that’s happening in the US?
18:00 I was wondering if in the rehabilitation programmes you have a find a role for psychiatrist input where mental health seems to really be impacting recovery and by extension, how do you continue to manage those patients who you begin to suspect their symptoms are more mental health related than concussion in an ongoing fashion?
29: 33 So we’ve been treating him for chronic fatigue syndrome for the last 12 months, and today I learned maybe he actually had a traumatic brain injury. Chronic fatigue syndrome, functional neurological disorder are a couple of diagnoses that I think we should now ask. Was there trauma at the start of this?
32:06 Can I ask you, Jacob, what was the response of your teammates, school peers friendship group about your concussion? What was their attitude towards you as the recovery seemed to extend and continue?
34:42 Just wondering on your recommendations or advice on dietary advice for acute and post-concussive patients. I’ve just read some bits and pieces on dietary advice and it can make a big difference. Just wondering what thoughts are?