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🔸Concussions can cause damage to the pituitary gland and/or hypothalamus. This is harmful to the body as these structures are responsible for regulating hormones, thus resulting in hormone imbalance. In fact, early signs of hormone imbalance can appear within the first few hours or days after a concussion.

🔹In addition to the physical impacts of hormone imbalance, many concussion survivors will also suffer from social, emotional, mental, and cognitive effects. Therefore, it is imperative to diagnose and treat hormone imbalance.

🟡What is Hypopituitarism?

Hypopituitarism is a hormone imbalance condition that is a common consequence of concussions. Specifically, hypopituitarism occurs when the front and/or back lobe of the pituitary gland is unable to make hormones, which can cause multiple hypothalamic and pituitary deficiencies...

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🟢The majority of sports-related traumatic brain injuries are concussions with 1.6 to 3.8 million sports-related concussions occurring annually in the United States. The number of concussions diagnosed continues to rise due to enhanced public awareness and concerns regarding such injuries.

🔷Some factors predict longer recovery time and these include a history of concussions, birth trauma, pediatric head injury, seizures, migraines, neurodevelopmental disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning disabilities, sleep disorders, motion sickness, mood disorders, and psychosocial stress. Right after the injury, loss of consciousness, amnesia, and a greater number of symptoms observed on the field predict a longer recovery time.

🔻Which factors increase the risks of sports-related concussions?
1️⃣Age: Children between the ages of 10-14 have the highest incidence of sports-related TBIs recorded at emergency rooms. The majority of these injuries are produced by recreational activities like bicycling, football, and playground activities. For high-schoolers, football and soccer have the highest concussion rates but more generally, collision and contact sports such as hockey, basketball, and football have higher concussion rates than non-contact sports like track…

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🤕Concussions often result in cognitive impairments, balance deficit, mood disturbances, and a range of other symptoms. But what happens when a person experiences multiple concussions?

🏈Athletes, especially those playing contact sports like ice hockey or football, are at an increased risk of sustaining multiple concussions. It is estimated that a third of all individuals who have sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) will experience another one. For instance, previous studies found that college football players with a concussion history are more likely to sustain another concussion compared to players who have never had a concussion.

🏑The effects of sustaining multiple concussions

🔷Past studies of athletes with a history of concussions revealed that those who have sustained three or more concussions took longer to recover compared to those with one or no previous concussion. More specifically, those who have sustained three or more concussions had more enhanced unresolved impairment on cognitive tasks eight days after their concussion compared with athletes who had one concussion…

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🎶What is Music Therapy?

Music therapy is a type of intervention that uses music and its elements to help improve quality of life, as well as physical, emotional, and intellectual health. It can be used in clinical practice, private practice, and community or educational settings. Patients can choose to have individual sessions or group sessions with other patients. During music therapy sessions, the music therapist and patient(s) actively interact with music and/or its elements.

🎵When is Music Therapy Used?


🟡Music therapy can be used to help people of different ages and medical conditions. Below is a list of some medical conditions that can benefit from music therapy:

Depression
Anxiety
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Hearing Impairment
Visual Impairment
Speech Impairments
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Emotional Trauma
Physical Disabilities
Chronic Pain
Cancer

🟢Music Therapy Methods
There are two types of music therapy methods:

Active music therapy methods are used when patients “make music”. Specifically, these methods may include music composition, improvisation and/or other creative music elements.
Receptive music therapy methods are used when patients “receive” or listen to music…

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Have any of you tried music therapy before? Did it help with your symptoms? We’d love to hear your stories below 👇