Says that the old advice to spend time in quiet, low light area for days after a concussion is wrong, and now, patients should be directed to more active environments for healing.
I have no idea.
I just read that up through 2012, Canadian med school students had, on average, 30 minutes of lecture on concussions – and that was that. It is now, apparently, up to about 3 hours.
I have had one 5″ skull fracture and 5 concussions over many decades. Not one health care provider – not one – ever mentioned “TBI” to me. With the skull fracture, the doctor made an appointment with an outpatient radiology clinic to be done FIVE DAYS AFTER my bike crash and knockout. I was then sent home where I lay in bed, vomiting, unable to recognize family members by name, unable to walk by myself or basic daily tasks like getting dressed. In my 20s, I had two additional bike crashes (broke helmet, other bones, knocked out), and then in my 40s, two more concussions (one, a fall on ice).
In all that time, no one ever mentioned brain injury to me. Not until 15 years after the last one did I accidentally discover that I had been dealing with a dozen TBI symptoms my entire life, finally, under my own direction, sought proper diagnosis and care. Finally. Decades after the first of these, I was retroactively diagnosed with 5 mild TBI injuries and one moderate TBI injury (the skull fracture, with likely brain bleed), spent 5 months with a neuropsychologist and was placed on medication for a bit.
Health care for TBI has been awful. After my experience, you might see why I am deeply skeptical of “experts”.
