Researchers had expected to find that more rest would be helpful for young patients with mild concussions. Instead, a pediatric emergency medicine doctor at Children’s Hospital, and his colleagues found that the patients advised to rest for five days reported more physical and emotional symptoms like headache and nausea in first few days, and more often experienced irritability and sadness over 10 days. Full Article: …more
nA Clinicians Attending Concussion Conference
September 19th, 2014 - By Kerri Honaker in Information on Brain Injury, Mild/Traumatic Brain Injury, neuroAgility NewsOn October 16th &17th, 2014 neuroAgility’s clinicians are attending a Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado Concussion Conference in Denver, CO on the short term and long term implications of head injury. Featured speakers are listed in the link.
Get a Baseline!
May 15th, 2014 - By Kerri Honaker in Athletic/Performance Enhancement, Information on Brain Injury, Mild/Traumatic Brain Injury, neuroAgility NewsneuroAgility,PC is pleased to announce our Get a Baseline! program. We take concussions and head injury seriously. As athlete performance is one of our specialty areas, we are concerned with contact sports. Every concussion injures your brain to some extent. neuroAgility cares about providing you with an understanding of your brain before and after the injury. Most importantly, we care about restoring your brain back …more
neuroAgility presents at Mackintosh Academy’s Segue to Summer Series, May 2014
April 28th, 2014 - By Kerri Honaker in Anxiety, Athletic/Performance Enhancement, Autism Spectrum, Information on ADD/ADHD, Information on Brain Injury, Information on Neurofeedback, Mild/Traumatic Brain Injury, neuroAgility NewsStrategies for Summer – “From Boredom to Over Scheduling, How Best to Serve the Gifted Child over Summer – and how Neurofeedback can help”. Neurofeedback professionals Kerri Honaker and Charity Finch will lead a discussion about how to make the most of Summer for your gifted child and family. They will also speak to how Neurofeedback can help address issues such as ADHD and anxiety …more
Sports Concussions
January 21st, 2014 - By Kerri Honaker in Information on Brain Injury, Mild/Traumatic Brain Injury, Neurofeedback NewsConcussions are a very controversial topic in sports, and the measurement of them is controversial as well. neuroAgility is often doing baseline qEEG’s for highschoolers, college, and professional athletes who want to see their activity before moving into even more intense arenas. There is hot debate around the topic of sports concussions, with no sure fire way to manage it.
Soccer Headers Can Harm Cognitive Function
March 12th, 2013 - By Kerri Honaker in Athletic/Performance Enhancement, Information on Brain Injury, Mild/Traumatic Brain Injury, Neurofeedback NewsRepeated light blows to the head can harm cognition, according to a study by neuroscientist Anne Sereno and her team at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. They don’t know if the impact is permanent or if there might be cumulative effects over time, and they concede more research is needed. But the findings add to a growing body of knowledge about …more