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Hi, guys. Welcome to another episode of the FAKTR podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Riddle. Today, we kick off a brand new training with doctor Mike Olson titled concussion management, how to use graded return to sport and return to school guidelines. Concussion management and post concussion care are multifaceted and highly individualized. One person may have a fairly easy recovery and little long term effects from a head injury, whereas another person with an almost identical brain trauma can be permanently disabled. The scientific community has made incredible advances in the last decade in our understanding of the short and long term effects of concussion, but there's still a number of mysteries when it comes to the physiological, neurological, mental, and emotional inner workings of the human brain. In part 1 of this fascinating 2 part series, you'll learn from doctor Mike Olson.
He's a nationally and internationally certified chiropractic sports physician, and he heads up the concussion management program at Big Fork Valley Hospital in Minnesota. He will walk us through the internationally recognized return to sport guidelines and provide us with a step by step approach to managing concussion throughout every phase of the healing process. So if you treat anyone with a brain, which I would venture to guess all of you do, then this 2 episode series is 1 you'll want a bookmark to listen to more than once, Click the save button, grab something to take notes with, and settle in. Let's get started.
Thank you, Jess. Well, welcome everyone. As Jess mentioned, we are going to be spending some time today talking about concussion management and how to properly manage those athletes that may come through your office. But first, I just wanna draw a little bit of attention to this concussion management. I would say 10 years ago, there was probably a lot more hype than there is now. I think some of that hype has calmed down, but I think that's because we as practitioners have have done a better job at recognizing concussion and understanding the importance and what we're doing to treat it, to monitor it, to how we're holding our athletes up out from play or or if they have a concussion, we know they're they're not supposed to go back to school right away or go back or go back to work. But a lot of that hype stemmed around the fact that there's a significant risk to individuals who may have sustained multiple concussions. Concussion studies suggest long term cognitive deficits, and furthermore, there's this poor head overlying risk of second impact syndrome, and that's basically getting a second concussion while you're still recovering from the from the first one.
And and what we're seeing with this is as we're recovering from our initial concussion, our brain is sometimes a little bit more susceptible to changes in that blood pressure. And when we sustain a concussion, we just kind of see, like, this catecholamine release or catecholamine surge essentially from that second impact to the head, and that can cause vascular congestion, cerebral edema. It can increase our intracranial pressure, which then could lead to coma or heaven forbid death. But that's kinda where a lot of this hype stemmed from. A few quick facts about concussion. We now know it's a we do know and we have for a while that it's a traumatic brain injury. There's a period of time where some of our leading researchers wanted to just get away from the term concussion in general and just basically call it a traumatic brain injury. We haven't been able to ditch the word concussion, but I I think a lot of this this newer research, we no longer are calling it, I got my bell rung, I got a dinger, or something like that.