Week 2, Day 5

Happy second week! We have a lighter curriculum this week and have standardized the meeting schedule as much as possible. Please let us know if you have any more feedback going forward!

We’re excited to welcome two more expert guest speakers this week! We’ll also be watching a movie and having a discussion on it. You’ll continue to work on your projects and, for science writers, we’ll have a workshop on working with Squarespace as you start to look towards building your webpages at the end of the week.

Meetings (Zoom link in Slack)

Today we'll have our Social Hour at 10am PST. Our guest speaker, Kam Gardner, is having some health issues, so we will not have our guest speaker talk today.

There are two Tasks to do today:

Watch the Squarespace Tutorial

Thank you note for Eve Valera

  • Please sign the thank you note for Dr. Valera and leave a little note thanking her for coming to speak with us yesterday.

Starting up with your projects!

NOTE: PLEASE MAKE ALL NEW DOCUMENTS IN YOUR PROJECT FOLDER. IF YOU ARE UNSURE HOW TO DO THIS, CHECK IN WITH YOUR PM.

Project-related tasks for today

  • Continue looking through your project folders.

    • Check your Overview/resources document.

    • Start going through the newsletter update docs and searching the Concussion Alliance website. If you aren’t getting search results on the website, try using an incognito/private browsing window.

  • Continue working on your research process.

  • Check in with your PM about your progress.

Curriculum for Today

We’ve provided a group of educational resources below. We’ve listed them in an order that we hope will build on your understanding of concussions as you go through them.

For Everyone

  • Read Shaken Brain Chapter 7

For Science Writers

  • Concussion researcher claims AFL hindered two-year research project into players’ health (6m video) 

  • (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)