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February 26, 2009

Post-Concussion Syndrome

My husband, David, was trolling the internet the other day looking for interesting articles to feed his love of sports and stumbled across this article that combines both our interests: sports and physical therapy. Corey Koskie, a major league baseball player who experienced post-concussive syndrome.

Not until he found a physical therapist named John Groves doing cutting edge work with whiplash victims in the fall of 2008 did Koskie begin to improve. Groves focused less on what had happened to Koskie’s head than to his neck. “Not every whiplash patient has sensory motor problems, but we’re finding that a subset does,” said Groves, who manipulated the cervical joints and muscles at the base of Koskie’s skull.

Hearing that description of his therapy makes me wonder if that PT was doing Craniosacral Therapy with his patients.

This reminds me of another story that one of my classmates brought back from the PT National Convention in Las Vegas last month. An Iraqi soldier came back to the states and developed excruciating headaches whenever he went for a run. He also developed a heightened sensitivity to noises that really set his nerves on edge. After his physical therapist performed some tests and measures on him, the PT discovered some signs and symptoms consistent with vestibular dysfunction. That soldier had experienced a blast shortly before he was discharged. Luckily he was referred to a doctor where he could get a diagnosis and proper care (along with physical therapy). New research seems to be revealing that what was historically called "shell shock" may have actually been post-concussion syndrome.

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Posted by linda at February 26, 2009 6:53 PM