Concussion: The Not-So-Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Recorded On: 07/18/2024

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This course is one of six courses in the Brain Injury Certificate and is available for individual purchase. Interested in the full certificate experience? Click here to explore the complete series.

This course provides physical therapists with a practical framework for evaluating and managing concussion in direct access settings. Participants will learn how to identify concussion symptom patterns, perform targeted examinations, select evidence-based interventions, and determine when referral or interdisciplinary collaboration is needed. The course also addresses common misconceptions about concussion and highlights the leadership role physical therapists play in concussion rehabilitation.

Key Features

Format: Asynchronous, on-demand webinar
Cost:
- $109 for Members
- $59 for Students
- $149 for Non-members
Earn CEU: 0.2 (2 contact hours)

Jessica Schwartz

PT, DPT

Jessica Schwartz is an award-winning orthopedic residency-trained Doctor of Physical Therapy, a national spokeswoman for the American Physical Therapy Association, founder of Concussion Corner Academy®, host of the Concussion Corner Podcast®, and a persistent post-concussion symptom survivor, advocate, and concussion educator.

After spending a full year in rehabilitation and experiencing the profound dichotomy of being both doctor and patient, Dr. Schwartz identified gaps in concussion treatment and management in the global healthcare community. Her role has been to identify cognitive blind spots for healthcare providers focusing on comprehensive targeted physical examinations, rehabilitative teams, and concussion care management.

Her vision is to facilitate collective competence across the healthcare continuum to better identify, treat, and care for the concussion patient of today while putting the "care back into healthcare" for this underserved patient population.

Dr. Schwartz hopes that by educating each other about the multi-system nature of these injuries and the scopes of practices of the multidisciplinary providers that have access to and have the ability to care for this cohort of patients, she will be able to facilitate a better patient-clinician encounter.

By speaking candidly about her experience with living with persistent post-concussion symptoms for over a decade, she hopes to facilitate learning from provider to provider, patient to provider, and caregiver to provider, honing in on the power of storytelling and collegial communication from a place of candor, evidence, and enthusiasm.

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