Week 2, Day 5

Welcome to the end of week 2!

Today we will have a Squarespace Tutorial at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET where we will learn how to work with the Concussion Alliance website. We’ll end the week again with a social hour at 12:00 pm PT | 2:00 pm CT | 3:00 pm ET.

The week 3 schedule is posted on Slack, so please take a look at that to plan ahead.

We hope this week has not been too overwhelming and that you have had a good time working on your projects! Please don’t hesitate to check in with any members of the administrative team if you want your work to be reviewed or need any assistance.

There are two tasks to do today:

1. Finish Thank you to Kam Gardener if you haven’t done so already

2. Write a Thank you to Dr. Sandel

Continuing your projects!

Project-related tasks for today

• We are moving into finishing drafts of what we want our projects to look like. Please reach out if you have any questions or clarifications.

Curriculum for Today

For Everyone

• Friday

  • Read Socioeconomic status and race as social determinants of health to be considered in clinical use of pre-season vestibular and oculomotor tests for concussion. (40 min)

  • Next 25 min : The Tough Talk: Examining SES and Racial Disparities in Concussion Evaluation and Management

  • Science Writers

    • (Optional) Watch presentation from the 2019 Sports Concussion summit, Dr. Karen McCulloch, PT, Ph.D., MS, NCS describing her research on concussion rehabilitation. She speaks specifically of her work looking at concussive events occur when there is cervical or vestibular injury. As a neurologic physical therapist, McCulloch describes the number of confounders that may prolong recovery depending on certain impairments. Her work depends on looking at specific impairments and ascertaining how they will impact recovery and rehabilitation. (~33 m)