This new study provides some interesting data about football (soccer) and neurodegenerative disease. Below is a summary and discussion of what they found. Ueda, P., Pasternak, B., Lim, C.-E., Neovius, M., Kader, M., Forssblad, M., Ludvigsson, J. F., & Svanström, H. (2023). Neurodegenerative disease among male elite football (soccer) players in Sweden: a cohort study. The Lancet. Public Health, 8(4), e256–e265. Football (or soccer in Australia/US) is the most popular sport in the world, with millions of people playing competitively. However, concerns have been raised about the potential inc ..read more

Concern about concussion in the community is growing and people are asking important questions about how to improve concussion care and long-term brain health. The answer to these questions may well be already underway with improved clinical assessments. Improving concussion assessments may be the solution to many of the concerns that currently plague current practice. Improved assessments lead to informed choices and ultimately better care. Simple right? Well, yes, but we have some work to do. The good news is, we can start implementing better concussion assessments now! How do we do this? L ..read more

We've been very busy! Yes, I was on national telly! on the radio & Keynote speaker at Sports Medicine South Australia and why? Concussion!   Concussion is headlining news nearly every day. Most of the news is unfortunately focusing on the negative & sometimes devastating effects of concussion. However, I have been promoting a proactive approach based on multimodal assessment and best practice rehabilitation. We have been advocating for better management of concussions by outlining an inclusive evidence-based end-to-end model of care. We have been tackling this via 3 organisation ..read more

Happy new year from Advanced Neuro Education! 2022 was an exciting year as we launched Advanced Neuro Education to the world with some courses, webinars, blogs and podcasts. Topics ranged from stroke recovery, vestibular assessment and rehabilitation, concussion discussions, motor control musings and the 10 movement training principles. We have so much more to come. Our first 2 online courses were released and have proven very popular for the busy clinician. Assessing dizziness in general practice. Provided to GPs and Physios who need to assess people with dizziness quickly and efficiently bas ..read more

As we continue to learn more about concussion it is important that we also educate the community at the same time. Nowadays, concussion is headline news. This is good news in terms of a greater awareness about brain health, but it also brings an element of sensationalism and inaccuracy to some of the information released. It is useful for the community to be aware of the big picture. This allows people to evaluate and consider what aspect of the information is important to them. In addition, health professionals with experience and an interest in concussion need to provide regular updates to a ..read more

The recovery of upper limb and hand function following stroke remains both a fascination and frustration! Some stroke survivors show gradual signs of upper limb (UL) and movement recovery over 3-6 months following the stroke event. Many people who show early signs of recovery in the first few days, go on to regain 70% of their lost movement by 3 months, in what has been termed the ‘proportional recovery rule’ (1). However, predicting recovery for any individual following stroke is very difficult, and those with more severe movement deficits do not seem to follow any rule, so even the most expe ..read more

Dizziness is unbelievably common. We have all experienced some form of dizziness in our life and most of us know people who experience or suffer from dizziness. As a symptom, dizziness was once a great frustration in medicine – difficult to diagnose and assessment was a little ad-hoc. Thankfully, things have changed dramatically. Dizziness is no longer such a mystery, because we now have strong evidence for very effective ways of assessing and managing dizziness successfully for most people. Much of our success with dizziness is because the common cause of dizziness can be treated with some of ..read more

How much should we focus on the trunk in rehabilitation?  The degree to which we spend time working on trunk muscles and trunk movement is a common and long-standing debate in neurology, musculoskeletal and sporting rehabilitation fields. The trunk certainly gets a bad rap in some stroke rehab circles, so thought I’d put together some of my thoughts. Axial muscles, unlike the limbs, are innervated by bilateral projections descending from brain and brainstem centres. These axial muscles such as erector spinae, multifidus, quadtratus lumborum, internal and external obliques and rectus abdom ..read more

The Concussion Rehab Clinic at Advanced Neuro Rehab Building expertise We have been working very hard behind the scenes to ensure our staff remain at the forefront of concussion management. Our extensive experience in the rehabilitation of people with traumatic brain injury and vestibular disorders gives us essential clinical knowledge in this field, and we have been closely following the progress made in concussion diagnosis and management in sport also. In 2017 when teaching in Johannesburg, Nicole (Our Senior Lead Physiotherapist) & I met with Professor Jon Patricios (founder ..read more