After concussion, oculomotor and visual processing changes can contribute to: • brain fog • difficulty concentrating • fatigue • headaches If you’re not assessing the visual system, you may be missing a key driver. #concussion #concussionrehab #brainfog #oculomotor #visiontherapy

Here's the truth, I will be closing registration 😮 I am almost out of kits and the kits need time to get to you!🛫 So, this is a flashy 🔥 post to get your attention, in case you are on the fence. This course is assessment, a lot of rehab options, and manual therapy, but I am not supplying any eyeballs in the kit 👀 Next time. Drop ADVANCED if you want the deets. #seeyouthere #partytime #concussionrehab #concussioneducation #womenintech @braintoolkit @concussionrehab.ca

I'm a Brainiac. Unapologetically 🤓 There's a good chance you are too. I love learning how the brain works, and the truth is we will never know it all. As one of my fave mentors said, the brain is so complex it's amazing anything we do works. I love 💗 that. At the end of the day, it's about staying humble about what we don't know. But we CAN help people, and pretty darn well!💯 I'm so grateful to the people who helped shape me as a clinician. It may sound like horse poop but I was put on this earth at the exact time to meet the best people! I won't drop names but you can guess a few (i.e. Dr Carrick, Schmoe, Gallucci, .....). 🫡 Anyways all of that to say. Now it's time for me to share again and this one will be SO great 👀 I am sending a PHYSICAL IN THE MAIL 😮 COURSE KIT! So, don't sit on your bum, register so it makes it to you before we go live. Or watch the replay. Physio. Chiro. Osteopath. Athletic therapist. RMT. Kin. If you work with concussion, this one's for you. 🙌 🧠 Advanced Eye Movements for Concussion Rehab 📅 Sunday, October 18th ⏰ 10:00am-3:00pm ET 💻 Live and interactive on Zoom with Replays if you can't make the live 📦 Physical course kit mailed to your door 📱 Free Brain Tool Kit/Pro app Drop ADVANCED and I'll DM you the info 👀 (unless you're the creepy guy in my DMs)

Concussion isn't a an injured spot (or worse "brain bruise"). It's a network issue 🧠⚡ Gaze stability runs through the VOR, cervico-ocular inputs, and cerebellar calibration all at once. Neck proprioception feeds straight into eye and head coordination. Saccades, pursuits, and vergence rely on cortical, collicular, and brainstem networks working together (not to mention all the other connections). The question is where in the network the integration is breaking down 🔍 That's why single-system treatment so often plateaus and so many clinicians are expanding their tool kit 👏 Combined cervical and vestibular rehab already has RCT support, and the clinical logic goes further: assess the eyes, vestibular system, and neck together, then progress head-eye-vestibular motion training with graded complexity 📈 Treat the network, not the symptom 🔥 Let's get it 💪 DISCLAIMER: I had zero contribution to the jenga tower 🙃 #concussion #concussionresearch #visual #vestibular #womenintech @braintoolkit @concussionrehab

The joke is on us!! 😬 Fixation is an illusion. The eyes never stop moving. 👁️ Holding relatively ‘fixed’ takes A LOT of brain coordination: In a neuro nugget: 🎯 Superior colliculus: Its rostral "fixation zone" helps hold gaze and generates microsaccades 🛑 Omnipause neurons (brainstem): The brakes that block unwanted saccades/jumps 🧲 Neural integrator + cerebellum: Hold the eyes in position and stop drift/surfing 🧠 Frontal eye fields: Voluntary "stay on target" control Fixation isn't passive. It's an active, network job. Who cares? (aside from me) Consider this: If micro-movements should be invisible i.e. you should NOT see them... then anything you CAN see during fixation assessment is big i.e. a finding 👀 Want to keep digging in? You can October 18th, live on Zoom. Drop ADVANCED to join the cool club🤓 Try this: Have your patient hold fixation on a target for 20 to 30 seconds and watch for: ✔️ Visible saccades off and back to target (square wave jerks) ✔️ Nystagmus ✔️ Increasing blinks or breaks as time goes on ✔️ Symptoms building (pressure, nausea) One-second glances miss this. Fixation needs time to fail. Does your patient pass the test?? Make it fun! Use image above from my fav app @braintoolkit Stare at the center dot for 20 seconds. Don't move your eyes. Did the outer ring fade or disappear? 🫥 That’s what we want! Want to keep digging in? You can October 18th, live on Zoom. Drop ADVANCED to join the cool club 👀

I've had this in my head for 3 years. Finally it's out here. A PhD will do that to you 🤓 Periods + concussion. Not new (also my Masters research) Luteal phase=concussion risk and recovery. Not new. BUT WHY?!😮🔥 Well one thing I know for sure is there is not one specific reason, BUT, the eyes likely play a role. How frikken cool for an eye obsessed nerdo like me to percolate on. How can this info be used? This info is the creme de la creme information for return to 🏀 sport or active living. I will tell you exactly why in another episosde. Also in my Advanced Eye Movements Course (drop ADVANCED below to get the cool club info) I am getting very excited!!! 🥳 #concussion #concussionresearch #vision #osteopathy #physio