Week 4, Day 3

Welcome to Week 4! This week you’ll work on your second newsletter, hear from a nationally known post-traumatic headache expert and clinician, and continue to work on your projects.

There are two tasks to do today:

  • Finish reading/watching the materials for this week’s speaker, Dr. Nathan Zasler, Wednesday, July 8, at 12:00 pm.

    • Watch this five minute video where Dr. Zasler performs an assessment on Conor Gormally, at the 2020 North American Brain Injury Society national conference.

  • Last call for thank you’s for Dr. Kapoor. If you haven’t done so already, please write a message on this doc. Thanks for the messages you’ve written to our speakers so far — Dan and Eve were effusively happy about the thank you messages that they received from you.

Optional:

  • Sign up for a webinar with Dr. Robert Cantu (who is in the film League of Denial), hosted by the Concussion Legacy Foundation. The topic is a Q&A with Dr. Cantu, so you could ask him questions! The webinar is this Thursday at 1 pm PST. Register here to receive a webinar link.

  • Take a look at the Headway Foundation, which is a nonprofit started by three former Ivy League athletes whose careers were sidelined by concussions. At CA, we think that part of being in this field is being aware of the other nonprofits and organizations in this space. The Our Story page is interesting. Here is their description of treatments - it is a bit hard to find. Their Concussion Circle is innovative.

This week:

  • Continue to work on your project as time allows.

    • For those of you working on website pages, you’ll have administrative access to our Squarespace site as of Monday. This is a lot of responsibility, so please reach out to us if there are any changes/processes that you are unsure about.

      • Always make sure that you are not making changes to a live page. Work on a (disabled) duplicate or new page.

      • If you are updating a page, or want to make a new page based off of the structure of an existing one, you should create a duplicate page. To do this, click on the gear next to the page name in the list - this will open a settings window where you’ll have an option to “Duplicate Page” (scroll down in the default tab of the window). Once you’ve created your duplicate, re-open the settings on that page and disable it; that way the page will not be a part of the website until you’re ready to activate it. You should also do this if you are working from scratch on a page.

      • Squarespace unfortunately has no version control. If you make changes to a page and then save that change, you cannot get the original version back. This applies to editing from two computers as well; Squarespace also does not support two active editors, so make sure that only one person is editing a page at a time. Squarespaces has even had trouble when someone else has the page selected but is not editing, it can be really finnicky.

    • Watch the 2015 film Concussion, with Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. We will have a discussion group about the film this Friday.

      • The film is on Amazon Prime, plus a few other places on the internet. Eloïse also found it for free at this link, although you have to disable your ad blocker in order to view it. We will reimburse you for the cost of watching the film if you don’t have an Amazon Prime subscription — just DM Malayka or Conor on Slack.