Concussions and How to Perform Better Afterwards
with Jim Goetz, Chantea Goetz, Michael Brandon and Dan Cardellichio Colts Neck, New Jersey Brief History of Human Performance Techniques •ROMANS •Horses were fed mushrooms that were believed to make the horses run faster in chariot races. •Gladiators ingested herbal amphetamines to make their fights more spectacular by pumping them up for the contests. •OLYMPIANS •GALEN prescribed ‘the rear hooves of an Abyssinian ass, ground up, boiled in oil, and flavoured with rose hips and rose petals’ to improve performance.” •Ancient Olympic athletes attempted to boost by eating sheep testicles, a prime source for testosterone. •One of the factors that led to the dissolution of the ancient Olympic Games was the overwhelming use of drugs, usually pharmacological agents such as extracts of mushrooms and plant seeds. 5 Steps to Increase Human and Sports Performance 1. Identify how an individual perceives the world. •Assess their senses •Vision, Olfaction, Hearing, Taste, Propriocetion, and Vestibular •Assess their reactions and reflexes Autonomic, Balance, Gait, Vestibular 2. How does the individual interact with the world? •Evaluate their preprogrammed movements •Saccades, Optokinetics •Volitional movements •Visual Target Holding, Eye Tracking, Timing, Coordination, Dexterity, Reaction Time 3. How does the individual process the world? •Evaluate cognition •Digit-Symbol Matching •Trail Making Test •Short and Long Term Memory •Choice RT •Evaluate Emotion •SF-36 (QoL) •Symptom Specific Medical Outcome Tools 4. Establish a baseline Baseline Concussion Testing 5. Create a truly dynamic and individualized plan! SCHEDULE YOUR CONCUSSION EVALUATION TODAY!!!
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