Week 2, Day 2

Welcome to Week 2! We’ll still be bringing you educational materials and resources so you can continue to learn about mTBI, this week we’ll be transitioning to a heavier focus on content creation. On Monday you’ll begin writing your first Newsletter synopses, hear from PM&R doctor and author Dr. Elizabeth Sandel, and learn tips and tricks of Squarespace from Malayka.

There are three tasks to do today:

• Newsletter: Under ‘Docs & Files’ in our ‘Newsletter - Concussion Update’ Basecamp project, you can access the source document for the December 10th Newsletter. Please finish your newsletter synopsis (or synopses) by 5pm PST

• Thank you’s to Dan Fogarty. Please write a sentence (or a couple of sentences) of appreciation in this document by the end of your day today.

• Prepare a rough draft of your newsletter synopsis (or one if you’re writing two) for the 12pm newsletter peer feedback session. Before the session, please run your synopsis through Grammarly and check it against the style guide.

Educational Resources:

1. Watch this short video from Katherine Schneider. Kathryn Schneider is an Associate Professor and Clinician Scientist (Physiotherapist) at the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on the prevention, detection and treatment of sport-related concussion. Her previous work has identified a large treatment effect using multimodal physiotherapy and vestibular rehabilitation in athletes who have persistent symptoms following concussion. She is a Clinical Specialist in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Physiotherapists and has expertise in vestibular rehabilitation, including completion of a Certificate Course in VR (Emory University 2003) and an Advances in VR course (Duke 2009).

2. Read chapter 5 of Shaken Brain, “Exercising Sensibly” (p. 129-141)