One of our 360NeuroGO members recently posted a thought-provoking question about the impact of flying after a concussion. The physiological and psychological effects of air travel on concussion symptoms have been anecdotally observed, but what does the research say? In response, we’ve compiled several articles offering insights into this topic. Three of the more recent […]

Answer: “So concussions or brain injuries can actually trigger migraines and vestibular migraines. And so I suspect that people who are more prone to vestibular migraine are more prone to getting migraine if you have the genetics for it. Taking a good hit to the head or being in contact sports can trigger the migraines […]

Answer: “You can. So what I usually will tell a patient, kids, I’m like, if you wake up and your headache is a zero and at the end of the day, having done your exercises, school, and whatever your headache is a three, if it resets by the next morning, if you wake up and […]

Answer: Amy Alexander, PT: “Because athletes start with such high level of balance, usually above general population studies, they have to be really impaired to show up on a static test. Now on the COBALT test, 100% of healthy athletes can do the test, and they do it with a very low error rate. We […]

Answer: RJ Elbin, PhD: “So, I have used this, as I mentioned from the data that I published, I have a network of five to seven high schools, depending on the year, that we follow kids that get concussions. It’s more of a community-based research and surveillance clinical sports medicine network here. And we’re using […]

Answer: “If you’ve got the money to spare, and it’s a lot… so I get that. So it’s not highly accessible to anybody, but the beauty of the computerized test is the specificity because the person is wearing an IMU. So the first thing that’s going to happen is you’re going to establish their static […]

Answer: “So the concussed patients have a lot of different types of symptoms. One of them, I think, or one group of them, I think, is coming from this autonomic nervous system dysfunction and this lack of autoregulation of blood flow. One very common one is when they report they get dizzy or lightheaded upon […]

Question: Jamie Pardini, PhD: “I’m going to layer these cause they’re kind of similar. Can you use it to track progress. If you do use it to track progress, would you anticipate someone’s clinical profile to change over time?.” Answer: RJ Elbin, PhD: “Yes. We are currently using it to track progress. We’re using it […]

Question: Shelly Massingale, PT, MPT: “So there was another question about a lot of us on here are therapists and we may not have access to neuropsychology or psychologists. So, what would be your top three things that therapists could do to help these patients? Is there really basic CBT training is one question that […]