Concussion Care

Dr. Ben Townsend, D.C. has a passion for concussion care, as it is the reason he had to stop playing hockey at 20 years old. Dr. Ben has taken seminars across Canada from Vancouver to Guelph on the topic of concussion detection, management, and rehabilitation as well as many online courses. He is a Credentialed ImPACT Consultant as well as a certified Shift Concussion Management Level 1 and Level 2 provider.

Lately, concussions have become a very big topic in the media, professional sports, and even amateur sports.  Although most of this attention is negative, there is a positive coming out of this, and that is the extensive research that has been done and is continuing to go into concussion care.

Concussions should be thought of the same as a knee or shoulder injury when it comes to care and rehab. Just like a knee injury is split up into things like ACL, MCL, muscle, bone, a concussion is simply not just a concussion, but split up into 6 different reasons that symptoms can be produced. These 6 different causes effect your body’s different systems which produce negative outcomes such as headaches, dizziness, nausea, difficulty thinking or concentrating, and much more.  Just like after a knee injury, sitting in a dark room without any kind of TV/computer screens for a week is not a sufficient way to heal a concussion, it must be rehabbed.

When someone comes to Dynamic Chiropractic & Sports Therapy Center with a suspected concussion, they will be put through a variety of tests to discover which systems are all affected.  Once that is figured out, we will set up a rehabilitation program to correct the interferences in those systems and eliminate the symptoms brought on by a concussion. We will also work with teachers, coaches, and work supervisors with return to school/play/work programs to ensure the patient can return to normal everyday life as soon as possible while not risking further injury.