E 146 Sports Concussion Topics Mansi Vakil DPT

Mansi Vakil, DPT talks to Dr. Justin Trosclair DC on A Doctor's Perspective Podcast. Signs and symptoms of concussions, raising awareness, promotion of her mild traumatic head injury book that patients and doctors can understand, misconceptions, warning signs and ways to recover are covered. Mansi Vakil DPT. Dr. Vakil was seeing the normal sports related injuries in a physical therapy office geared towards athletes for many years. What she began to see is more parents bringing in their children for what seemed to be out of the ordinary symptoms of headaches and dizziness but of course she recognized it as mild traumatic head injury aka concussion. With over 30 books already written on concussion, she felt that many are overly complicated and intimidating to get through. She wrote her own version in language that a doctor and patient could understand called Concussion Talks. Expect to find out the signs and symptoms, what kind of tests should be ordered, best people to treat this conditions, advances in sport safety to help stop mild traumatic head injuries from occurring in the first place, the anatomy of a concussion and much more. Can you believe that 90% of concussions the person has not lost consciousness. Signs and Symptoms of Concussions: She goes over them early on in the episode. Headaches, blurred vision, sleep disturbances, anxiety, mood changes If you see these symptoms and changes in your child, don’t hesitate to bring them to the doctor. Early detection and treatment is paramount and of course they need to miss some time from the offending activity (since in her realm it’s sports related) How are the cranial nerves involved? Mental rest from studying and TV watching is important, how do we manage that for students who need to pass classes? What type of diet does Mansi recommend for optimal brain healing?  How does a low intensity cardio program benefit? Some of the misconceptions of concussion can have lasting problems, so stay tuned for those. These could be memory loss at an early age, depression, suicidal thoughts and so on. Sometimes it’s the parents who are pushing the kids to keep playing, is there anything as doctors that we can do about that?  We are referring to post concussion and even year round baseball leagues for 13 year olds. It’s important to evaluate the biomechanics of the patients other joints (like we are trained to do) when someone comes in for concussions directly or when it’s just odd symptoms to the patient. Where does she go to promote the concepts in her book for child athlete safety? Being a women in a male dominated field can be tough so what has she done to get more creative than just going talk to the coaches? Dr. Vakil’s key to vacation and time away from the office is: Work Smarter not Harder. Don’t take your charts home, let family time be family time. Also, do something that you know your significant other likes to do at least once a week. www.Concussiontalks.com mansi@concussiontalks.com Podcasts: gets some mentoring from the hosts and guests who have more experience than her Books: 48 Laws of Power – Robert Green Show notes can be found at http://www.adoctorsperspective.net/144 here you can also find links to things mentioned and the full transcript. Full Transcript of the Interview (probably has some grammatical errors). Just Click to expand Justin Trosclair 0:06 Episode 146 Sports concussion topics and host Dr. Justin Trosclair today with Dr. Nancy kill perspective 2017 and 18 podcast Awards Nominated host best selling author on Amazon as we get a behind the curtain look at all types of doctor and get specialties. Let’s hear a doctor’s perspective. That’s it. That’s my Halloween voice for you. No jokes. That’s it. I know I got some dry humor. If you missed that last week, at the late November, I’m gonna shut it down for a little while as we moved to Germany to just kind of focus on...