Concussion with Professor of Neurotrauma Melinda Fitzgerald

08/29/22 • 36 min

Professor of Neurotrauma, (Melinda) Lindy Fitzgerald is on a mission to improve outcomes for people who have experienced traumatic injury to their central nervous system.

Lindy and her team at Connectivity Traumatic Brain Injury Australia have developed a free online concussion short course to help you and I identify and manage concussion to prevent long term issues.

It's a relevant and important chat – for the sporty, the aged, those suffering repeated injury from domestic violence or really anyone who sustains a knock to the head.

Duration: 36 minutes.

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Connectivity Traumatic Brain Injury

Free Concussion short course

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08/29/22 • 36 min

My Warm Table ... with Sonia - Concussion with Professor of Neurotrauma Melinda Fitzgerald

Transcript

Lindy Fitzgerald00:00:05.280

One in five and estimates vary depending upon the population that you're studying. Some estimates are actually a bit higher than that. Those one in five people will go on to have continuing symptoms. It's called persisting post concussion symptoms. And those symptoms can last for quite a while it can be one to three months, even a year or longer. So we here in my role as CEO of Connectivity, Traumatic Brain Injury Australia, we are hearing

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