If you’re recovering from a concussion injury, a vital part of your recovery is learning how to gradually increase your activity level without aggravating your symptoms too much and slowing down your recovery.

When it comes to increasing your activity level, you can use the 2-Point Rule for monitoring your various symptoms during whatever activity you’re working on improving.

For example, if you’re an athlete trying to improve your running tolerance, and your primary concussion symptom when you run is increased headaches, you can apply this 2-Point Rule like this: if you rate your baseline headache at 3/10, as you run, if your headache increases to 5/10, that’s when you want to stop and rest.

If you’ve recently experienced a concussion, and you’re trying to do everything possible to speed up your recovery, you’ll definitely want to implement the tips in this video!

The dietary and nutrition guideline outlined in this video are designed to help you reduce inflammation and improve brain function and healing.

There are 7 specific recommendations you can follow:

If you’ve recently had an injury (like a sports injury, a fall, or a car accident), and you think you’ve had a concussion as well, this video will help you recognize the most common signs and symptoms of a concussion.

In the clinic, we use the “Clinical Profiles Screen for Concussion” to check for various symptoms (and also to check the patient’s progress throughout treatment).

The 5 main categories for concussion symptoms are as follows:
– Anxiety/mood
– Cognitive/fatigue
– Migraine (headaches)
– Ocular
– Vestibular