Dr. Shawn Eagle

from before and after an injury better than the athletic trainer.

That's right.

Even the coaches.

And so...

I think there's a lot of upside for athletic trainers and concussion management moving forward.

That it's treatable.

I still encounter people that are shocked by the notion that concussion can be managed by early activity.

I'm talking one to two days after the injury.

Even just as literal as aerobic exercise for 30 minutes a day and regulating your sleep can do a whole lot for getting better from a concussion.

as fast as possible if you think about how far we've come since my concussion it's really pretty astounding like if someone had said someone from the future had come back and said you know what sean should do with this concussion is he should be active right away and not isolate and expose himself and recover at times but really spend some time getting stimulated and recovering from those symptoms people that would have scared

the heck out of people um and you know it's really pretty remarkable how far we've come and it's not it's never too late a lot of people also think that their current situation is set in stone and it's related to the head injury there's nothing they can do about that and

Part of that is related to the narrative around CTE and the fact that there are no treatments and so forth.

And so you need to understand that the brain is plastic and will respond and can respond.

And we've seen it over and over and over again.

And veterans exposed to blast to the old lady who fell off her ladder a year ago and still is having trouble.

Yeah, there's still a lot of work to be done.

And for a lot of these things, we're not entirely certain biologically why it works.

It just does.

And it's rooted in strong science and psychological theory and physiology.

But the exact reasons why they work, we need to do a better job of understanding.