Return to School and Sport Considerations for Concussion Rehabilitation

Lenore Herget, DPT, SCS, MEd, CSCS

Online Course

Includes all course content in digital format

Prerequisites Required
2 hours - Provided by Summit Professional Education

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Description

Too often, a patient is seen after sustaining a concussion and given little to no guidance with regards to how to effectively and safely return to school and sport without excessive symptom provocation. These patients frequently show symptoms well beyond the typical timeline, as they have missed out on proper rehabilitation opportunities and potentially have developed secondary signs and symptoms related to prolonged removal from school and sport, such as psychosocial dysfunction and deconditioning. Rehabilitative clinicians now are involved with these patient's care from diagnosis to full recovery.

This course will briefly address the multi-system involvement, not limited to oculomotor, vestibular, orthopaedic and cardiovascular, in the assessment and rehabilitation of the concussed athlete. The complexity of how each of these systems contributes to impairments and functional limitations will be reviewed. The most up to date research on evidence-based assessment tools will be presented as well as best practice tools for rehabilitation. This workshop will arm the clinician with tips to minimize symptoms in each domain to allow the student to return to school related activities earlier and minimize days lost from school. Additionally, the clinician will understand the importance of and instruction of a step wise progression of exercises from each individual system involved, to functional progressions of exercises, to eventual sport specific and non-contact sport related skills. After completion of this course, the rehabilitative clinician will be an integral part of the medical management team for those who have sustained a concussion/TBI.

Highlights

  • Confidently differentiate between various system contributions to symptoms that may be limiting the student's participation in school related activities
  • Learn evidence-based exercise prescriptions and progression that are safe, effective, and efficient

Learning Objectives

  1. Confidently differentiate between various system contributions to symptoms that may be limiting the student's participation in school related activities
  2. Learn evidence-based exercise prescriptions and progression that are safe, effective, and efficient

Course Content

Return to School and Sport Considerations for Concussion Rehabilitation
SCORM Package
Next Steps
Module
  1. Return to Sport Considerations
    • Dangers of returning too early
    • Treatment parameters by system: Oculomotor, vestibular, cervicogenic, exercise
    • Functional progressions of exercises
    • Stages of return to full contact
    • Preventative exercises
  2. Return to School
    • Cognitive reduction vs avoidance
    • Tips to minimize oculomotor and vestibular symptoms
    • Recognizing other system involvement and how it may impact school
    • Referrals
Dr. Herget, DPT, SCS, MEd, CSCS, is a Senior Physical Therapist, Board Certified Sports Clinical Specialist, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, Certified Clinical Instructor and Certified Emergency Medical Responder at the MGH Sports Medicine Center. She is a member of the New England Patriots Medical Staff and serves as the Concussion Rehabilitation Consultant to the Boston Bruins, Boston Red Sox, New England Revolution, Boston Celtics, Home Base Program, Special Operator Program and the MGH Sports Concussion Clinic. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and Psychology from Wheaton College in 2000, her Master's in Education degree from SUNY in 2005, her post baccalaureate pre-med certificate from Hunter College in 2006 and her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from MGH Institute of Health Professions in 2009. Dr Herget's practice includes rehabilitating athletes who have sustained a sports concussion, most specifically evaluating and treating high school through professional level athletes with concussions and assisting in their safe return to play. Her clinical expertise is in the cervicogenic contributions and visuo-vestibular treatment of athletes and military personnel who sustain concussions as well as the progression of exercise through exertional protocols. Her research has focused on management of athletes with post-concussion syndrome and the efficacy of pre-season and post-season visuo-vestibular testing to aid in return to play decision making, differentiating between concussion and cervicogenic symptomatology, alternative exercise testing protocols, atypical mTBI presentations and considerations in the military population as well as managing care for the female athlete triad diagnosis. She has lectured nationally on the topics of concussion and the non-acute management of athletes with post-concussive syndrome Additionally, Dr. Herget focuses her orthopaedic practice on the biomechanical assessment and management of lower quarter injuries and uses knowledge from her dry needling certification courses when appropriate.

DISCLOSURES

FINANCIAL: Lenore Herget is compensated by Summit as an instructor.

NONFINANCIAL: Lenore Herget has no non-financial relationships to disclose.

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