Incorporating External Focus In collegiate and professional athletes, “The increased risk for lower extremity injury following concussion was 1.47 to 2.48 times greater within 90-day follow-up.” Why? This article published in 2021 states that this might be due to residual deficits post-PT, or “neurophysiological and dual-task motor stability deficits that remain despite RTS.” This results in 🔻 Loss of autonomous control of gait and posture 🔻 Increased need for cognition for motor stability PTs and clinicians NEED the “incorporation of strategies that can enhance motor stability and restore autonomous control of gait and posture” (External Focus) Concussion RTS needs to incorporate lower extremity dual tasking and movements that cause lots of communication in the corpus callosum Are you already testing lower extremities after concussion? Are you using technology/objective data? Are you implementing implicit motor learning strategies? #concussion #sportsrehab #sportsrehabilitation #sportsrecovery #sportsperformance #sportsperformancetraining #sportsphysiotherapy #physicaltherapy #rehab #acl #aclrehab #reaction #neuroplasticity #neurorehabilitation
