The Road to Recovering from a Brain Injury
October 20, 2016
Brain Injury, Concussion Management, Concussion Recovery, Patient Education
Regan Rodgers remembers little about what happened on Sept. 24, 2015, while playing ninth-grade football against an Allen team. “My husband and I knew watching the game, he was getting pummeled,” recalls Jennifer Rodgers, an English teacher at Clayton Downing Middle School in Flower Mound. In the year since the Marcus High School sophomore suffered brain trauma, his family, a local physician ...
Neck Strength/Power in Concussion Prevention
December 17, 2014
Concussion Management, Concussion Prevention, Patient Education
In further articles coming shortly I will be discussing other potential concussion prevention techniques, some that we have discussed briefly on this blog before. Today I want to say a few words about neck strength, size and power and how it relates to the incidence of concussion. My opinions are just that, opinions, but they are based on personal observation(anecdotal admittedly) while treating ...
Reflections and Updates from Spring and Summer Concussion Conferences
July 14, 2014
Concussion Management, Concussion Prevention, Patient Education
I have had both the pleasure and good fortune the first half of this year to attend four symposiums and conferences on the diagnoses and management of mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI or concussion). I had the opportunity to listen, learn and interact with the premier researchers and leaders in this exploding area of science, from the perspectives of Sports Medicine Physicians, PhD. level ...