{"id":449,"date":"2014-02-04T17:18:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T22:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/?page_id=449"},"modified":"2017-08-25T16:57:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T20:57:25","slug":"concussion-recovery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/?page_id=449","title":{"rendered":"Concussion Assessment and Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/football-player-down.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-684\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/football-player-down.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/football-player-down.jpg 360w, http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/football-player-down-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/soccer-head-injury.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-685\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/soccer-head-injury.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/soccer-head-injury.jpg 395w, http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/soccer-head-injury-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a>Student Athletes continuously put themselves in danger of getting concussions.\u00a0 Football and soccer lead the list of sports in which concussions happen frequently, followed by hockey and lacrosse, though no athlete in any sport is immune from concussions.\u00a0 Multiple concussions are especially harmful to the brain.\u00a0 Neurofeedback helps the brain to recover from concussions.\u00a0 Many pro athletes, especially former NFL football players are now using Neurofeedback to help their brains heal from multiple concussions.\u00a0 Included in this group is NFL Hall of Famer Jack Youngblood.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">NEW! \u00a0The Center for NeuroFitness has added BrainCheck&#8217;s Pre-Concussion Assessment. \u00a0This is an inexpensive, 15 minute, neurocognitive test that gives \u00a0a baseline on an athlete&#8217;s brain health. \u00a0If the athlete suffers a head injury, they retake the test and compare the results to the initial test to determine any cognitive\u00a0deficit. \u00a0Contact us for the assessment!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been working on this concussion issue for the last three or four years now&#8221;, states Youngblood in a recent interview with Mike Bianchi. \u00a0 &#8220;If you play one football game, you&#8217;re going to have a concussion, if you play hard. \u00a0I&#8217;ve had probably thousands of them. \u00a0And they have caused a problem. \u00a0In fact, that is the reason I got involved with this therapy. \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t concentrate, didn&#8217;t have any memory. \u00a0It [Neurofeedback] turned me totally around. \u00a0 Neurofeedback allows the brain to heal itself. \u00a0It&#8217;s noninvasive. \u00a0I&#8217;ve had 24 sessions of NF and it has corrected imbalances [in my brain].\u00a0 It needs to be in every locker room across this country.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Hear the entire interview below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.740thegame.com\/player\/embed.html?autoStart=false&amp;useFullScreen=true&amp;mid=24225720&amp;startButtonColor=0xA33335&amp;share=http%3A\/\/www.740thegame.com\/media\/podcast-open-mike-openmike\/jack-youngblood-january-23-2014-24225720\/&amp;podcastFeed=openmike.xml&amp;programName=podcast\" width=\"670\" height=\"377\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re having fogginess and memory loss from a concussion, contact us for a consult!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Student Athletes continuously put themselves in danger of getting concussions.\u00a0 Football and soccer lead the list of sports in which concussions happen frequently, followed by hockey and lacrosse, though no athlete in any sport is immune from concussions.\u00a0 Multiple &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/?page_id=449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":107,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-449","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/449\/revisions\/453"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centerforneurofitness.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}