Mild/Traumatic Brain Injury
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CU Boulder to lead Pac-12 research initiative on student-athlete concussions
The Pac-12 Conference announced today that CU Boulder has been selected to lead its Student-Athlete Health and Well-Being Concussion Coordinating Unit (PCCU), a multi-year, multi-site research initiative that will establish best practices and clinical infrastructure for advancing education on traumatic brain injury in student-athletes through the use of SyncThink EYE-SYNC technology, a world leader in…
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Playing with a Concussion Doubles Recovery Time
High school athletes who kept playing in the minutes after a concussion took nearly twice as long to recover as those who left the game immediately after the head trauma, a new study shows. Read full article: The New York Times, “Playing with a Concussion Doubles Recovery Time”
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Concussion Detection in 2015 (And What Is Still Unknown)
Does playing football cause permanent brain damage? The answer is not so straightforward. We are likely to learn a lot more about the subject in 2016, but scientists are only beginning to understand the details of how concussions—also a serious problem in the military—damage the brain. Better concussion diagnostics will give scientists and physicians a…
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Competitive Environment Complicates Decisions About Head Injuries
Injuries sustained by several players in high profile cases have troubled concussion activists. They say that despite clear progress in the recognition and treatment of head injuries in soccer, it is often up to the injured athlete or that athlete’s coach to determine when an injury requires removal from play. Mandatory stoppages and temporary substitutions…
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Limiting Rest Is Found To Help Young Concussion Patients
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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…
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Why Being Idle Can Lead to Better Thinking
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Studies show that people would rather do something—anything—than be alone with their thoughts. But it’s through reflection, daydreaming, and introspection that we make sense of information and experiences and come up with new insight and ideas. Full Article: Lifehacker, “Why Being Idle Can Lead to Better Thinking”
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nA Clinicians Attending Concussion Conference
On 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.
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Get a Baseline!
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neuroAgility,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…
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neuroAgility presents at Mackintosh Academy’s Segue to Summer Series, May 2014
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Strategies 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…
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Sports Concussions
Concussions 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…