Were you injured while play sports and you suffered a brain injury?

Are you having trouble with your vision that you never had before?

Do you find your eyes are more sensitive to light?

Are you uncomfortable in busy environments or crowds?

Have your sleep patterns changed?

Are you experiencing dizziness or headaches?

Do you have ringing in your ears?

Do you have trouble remembering things?

These symptoms can be the result of your brain injury and you may be suffering from post-concussion syndrome.  Post-concussion syndrome is a condition that is typically associated with a head injury. The head injury may be categorized as a concussion or a mild traumatic brain injury. In general terms, post-concussion syndrome, or PCS, is a medical problem that persists for a period of time after a head injury has occurred. This period of time can range from weeks to months.

Not dealing with your symptoms and going it alone can have a detrimental impact on your life.  If you are a high school, college, or university athlete, the debilitating effects of post-concussion syndrome can have a profound negative effect on your ability to learn.

Symptoms often exhibit as memory loss, inability to concentrate, difficulties reading or hearing, lack of motivation, sleep deprivation and lack of REM sleep, (REM sleep is extremely important as this is when the body repairs itself).  Without sleep, we cannot think as clearly or process information. In addition, we lose coordination and function of our muscles and muscle movement patterns.  Sleep clearly gives the body and brain time to recover, sorts out daily events/information, builds and rebuilds muscle.  Sleep also allows organs to rest and recover, downloads critical movement patterns to brain circuitry and catalogs them in movement and premovement sectors of the brain. 

If left unchecked, post-concussion syndrome can have a major influence on your ability to perform at optimal levels in academics, athletics, and in your social interactions.  This can have a major impact on career opportunities and quality of life.

The medical community is not positioned to assist you.  Care is fragmented and performed in silos.  Specialists do not communicate with one another, nor do they understand the effect that their prescribed treatment plan might have on the health and well being of the patient.

In some circumstances, misdiagnosis and subsequent treatment can actually retard or delay recovery.   While doctors may be specialists in their own sphere of influence and have taken on-line courses to be certified in concussion management, they most likely will not have the education or training to understand that for example, gait (walking) and balance issues may not be vestibular in nature.  They may not also be aware that vestibular rehab therapy might hinder the body’s ability to repair injuries to the neck and back.

Healthcare clinics who advertise as being certified in concussion management, mean well and are an improvement over previous methodologies, but they lack the medical   wherewithal to truly understand the interplay between the body, brain, and its systems. It takes a medical specialist years of education and practical experience to become an expert in their chosen field. To become an expert in concussion takes even more time and experience. How can a 35 hour on-line course possibly make you an expert?

Where do you go, who do you turn to for help?  None of my Doctors truly understand what is wrong with me……

At iCare we alleviate the stress and fear of trying to navigate through the medical landscape in order to get answers of what is wrong with me and will I get better.

iCare has developed a protocol to assess, diagnose and treat your on-going debilitating symptoms.  The body is an amazing labyrinth of systems all working together to keep us robust.  It is the interplay of these symptoms that can be altered due to a brain injury.  This alteration can have a devastating effect on our health and well being. 

Today’s medical approach is to see your family Dr.  Receive a diagnosis of concussion, then get referred to different specialists to deal with the different symptoms and receive treatment.  The problem is that the care is fragmented, the specialists do not talk to each other, nor do they understand fully how their specialty and treatment plan might actually reverse or slow the healing process.

Patients are generally left on their own to circumnavigate the medical landscape.  This can be extremely scary and stressful for patients.  What do I do next?  Who do I see?  Why am I not getting better?  Why isn’t this treatment working?

The iCare protocol is a truly collaborative approach to assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients so that they may reach their MAXIMUM REHABILITATIVE POTENTIAL.

The iCare Concussion Group has developed a triage assessment protocol that with the use of technology and science-based testing, can objectively identify and then diagnose a patient’s TRUE injuries.