Dual-Task Paradigms: Advances in Concussion Management

Presentation:

Dual-Task Paradigms: Advances in Concussion Management

CEUs Awarded:

1

Registration Fee:

$15 for NATA members/$25 for NATA non-members

Date:

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Time:

11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Central (Noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific)

Abstract:

Divided attention tasks and dual-task paradigms can be useful tools in the return-to-play and rehabilitation progressions following concussion.  Progressions and activities from the more moderate to severe traumatic brain injury literature may have useful applications in the field of sports medicine.  Understanding how these tasks can be used in clinical practice can advance concussion management programs across the medical community.

Clinical Objectives:

• Learn the existing evidence concerning dual-task and divided attention paradigms in the management of traumatic brain injury
• Have a better understanding of the role dual-task and divided attention paradigms may have in their clinical practice
• Be able to design a dual-task paradigm for use in his/her clinical practice

Presenter:

Johna K. Register-Mihalik, PhD, LAT, ATC
Clinical Research Unit, Emergency Services Institute
WakeMed Health and Hospitals, Raleigh, NC

 

 

Dr. Johna Register-Mihalik, is currently a Senior Research Associate in the Clinical Research Unit of the Emergency Services Institute at WakeMed Health and Hospitals in Raleigh, North Carolina and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed her undergraduate work at the University of Alabama and both her master’s and doctorate work at UNC-Chapel Hill. Prior to WakeMed, Dr. Register-Mihalik served as a postdoctoral research associate in the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related TBI Research Center at UNC-Chapel Hill where she still serves as a collaborator. She has published extensively in the area of sports-concussion. She currently studies prevention, evaluation, and management of sport and activity related TBI with a special interest in younger and novel populations.. Much of her research to date has focused on the negative consequences, prevention, and clinical management of concussion.
 

Athletic Training Domain:

ITreatment and Rehabiliation
 

Course Level:

Advanced

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