Happy new year! Phoenix Concussion Recovery Podcast is back in 2020! Lauren and I were choosing between chronic dizziness and chronic pain to be the topic for this episode. Chronic dizziness will be the topic for episode 12, but chronic pain is the first topic in the queue. Lauren talks about chronic dizziness, or Persistent Postural-Perceptual ...
Episode 48 – The Brain: Complexity abounds (Joseph LeDoux, NYU, Emotional Brain Institute)
My guest for Episode 48 is Joseph LeDoux, PhD, Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University; Director Emotional Brain Institutel. His awards and accolades are too many to note here, but suffice to say, he is accomplished. Joe has written several books, including The Emotional Brain and ...
Episode 47 – Concussion in Women and Girls (Meaghan Adams, PT, PhD)
On Episode 47 I talk to Meaghan Adams, PT, PhD, VISTA post-doctoral fellow at York University and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, and Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct) at McMaster University’s School of Rehabilitation Science. Much of Meaghan's research has focused on how people integrate thinking, moving, and sensing the world around them. Meaghan also has a keen ...
Episode 10 – Phoenix Concussion Recovery (Dysautonomia)
After a hiatus, Phoenix Concussion Recovery Podcast is back! Lauren is in Park City, Utah for episode 10 and, instead of re-introducing primitive reflexes as we thought, goes a completely different route and explains dysautonomia, a disorder that can arise following concussion. Not just a concussion issue, but something Lauren is seeing, notably in a ...
Attitude since brain injury, and a thank you!
I wrote and posted this article on Concussion Talk's Patreon page last Friday, and here it is again. I think I made a mistake by pairing my conference post with a post about my attitude. However, I'm happy with what I wrote and I like the way I was able to frame the explanation of ...
Episode 46 – ImPACT Applications and HeadCheck Health partnership (Michael Wahlster & Harrison Brown)
On episode 46 of Concussion Talk Podcast I talk to Michael Wahlster, CEO ImPACT Applications, and Harrison Brown, CEO HeadCheck Health, about their new partnership to improve concussion screening, assessment, and management. Both companies aim to improve concussion management and are partnering to provide ImPACT Applications' concussion assessment tools via HeadCheck Health. “We are excited to ...
Concussion Talk Podcast (2019 update)
Update for Concussion Talk for 2019 including; October 4-5 Third World Congress of Sports Physical Therapy. Concussion Talk will be at a booth with HeadCheck Health. Concussion Talk Podcast is available on: iTunes/Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube SoundCloud Stitcher Google Play Music
Speaking: Optimism
Originally, when I thought I'd like to do public speaking, I was thinking about brain injury, my story, and my recovery. In 2016 I began to speak locally, and once in Halifax at Dalhousie University, and it was good, proceeding at a modest pace, but proceeding nonetheless. In the spring of 2017 I was thinking ...