If Its Been Longer Than 6 Weeks After Your Concussion And You’ve Made No Progress, You Need A Different Approach
It had been nearly two years since her car accident that left her a concussion and she was at the tail end of her treatment window that would be covered by her insurance. She still had challenges with remembering what to chart on after seeing patients, difficulty with balance and stability even walking down the hallway of the clinic. She even was bothered by the lights being too bright in the clinic and had a hard time reading anything.
She had seen a physio and chiro during her couple years of treatment, and they had focused on her back and neck and a little bit of treatment for her concussion that had plateaued after several months.
Since moving to town, she had gotten overwhelmed and had not gotten a new therapist to focus on her concussion. With only 2 weeks left in her coverage there was a bit of a panic to get things addressed.
We went and looked at her eye movements, her autonomic nervous system (fight/flight rest/digest system), inner ear balance system (vestibular system) all of which were overly reactive or inefficient in how they were working.
Over the following months she made more progress than she had in the past two years on her concussion recovery.
- We worked on getting her more active to settle her autonomic nervous system
- Gave her targeted balance exercises for her inner ear
- Started eye movement and coordination exercises
- Progressed to combining different exercises together to challenge her brain even more
It also helped that we got near-optometry involved in here eye care for more specialized approach to her eye function.
She started snowboarding again, she could start to get most of her patient charting finished in the same day with out draining all her energy for the next and shopping for groceries and going to the mall weren’t nearly as overwhelming. It was incredibly rewarding to she her life continue to expand, progress and normalize after having the maladaptations after a concussion shrink her life so much.
