Concussion Management in the Young Athlete The word concussion is heard more in the mainstream media but what are the reasons why? Has the way we approach concussion treatment changed? Dr. Mathew Pombo, a highly regarded orthopedic surgeon with the Emory Orthopaedic surgery faculty, has brought increased awareness of concussion management and currently serves [...]
So what does actual treatment for a concussion entail? In our last blog, we addressed the signs of symptoms of post-concussion syndrome, noting that an athlete may not return to play until the symptoms have cleared. More than 80% of concussions will heal within the first 3 weeks but for the 20% that do [...]
Last month, I had the opportunity to attend a concussion awareness workshop. It was designed to help educate coaches and parents on the prevalence and importance of proper concussion management. The city of Norwalk, CT had hired Katherine Snedaker LCSW, a well known concussion expert, to help identify the population of children who were [...]
Our third blog in the concussion series will take a look at what post-concussion management looks like from a physical therapy point of view. If you haven’t had a chance to read our first two installments in this series – “What is a concussion?” and “How often do concussions occur in sports?” – take [...]
In our last post, we talked about what a concussion is, and potential acute deficits that occur as a result. Once a concussion is defined, there are multiple questions that usually follow. This blog post will address some of those questions. “How often do concussions occur in athletic populations?” According to Khurana et al [...]
In the fall, we seem to hear the term ‘concussion’ much more frequently than other times of the year. But what is it? Why does this word get used so frequently, and what are the implications of a concussion? Many people dismiss it as a player’s excuse for sitting out for a few plays. [...]
The month of October has been nationally recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month in an effort to promote funding for research in the hopes of finding a cure for the disease. Current breast cancer treatments range from radiation treatments, to lymphectomy (removal of affected lymph node tissue) to mastectomy (removal of total breast tissue), [...]
Every year the APTA (American Physical Therapy Association) determines a topic to highlight for the month of October bringing awareness to health related issues. These topics range from the impact of your Physical Therapist to #agingwell to stressing the importance of movement. For 2016 campaign, the APTA is focusing on the drug epidemic of [...]
At the end of the last lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) post, we alluded to trigger-point dry needling (TDN) being an effective treatment technique for the resolution of tennis elbow. As mentioned before, tennis elbow is not restricted to tennis players, but affects a wide variety of athletes and professions, and is characterized by point [...]
Many tennis players - from beginners to professionals - will at some point experience lateral epicondylitis, or “tennis elbow.” This pathology is not restricted to tennis players, but is also common in construction workers, employees who tote briefcases, and other professions that require repetitive forearm motions. While some shrug the pain off and continue [...]
