Symptoms of concussion should start to improve after 10 to 14 days. However, in some cases, this unfortunately does not happen, causing it to become what is known as a chronic or persistent concussion. Now this is one of the most mismanaged and misdiagnosed conditions out there often leaving everyone feeling frustrated and anxious due to the lack of improvement from treatment and the persistence of the symptoms such as headaches, migraines, brain fog, dizziness, and neck pain just to name a few.

What causes a concussion to become a chronic? Well, let's go through that today.

Hi, I’m Dr. Kevin, osteopath here at Melbourne Headache Solutions.

A concussion is a form of traumatic brain injury causing damage to the nerves or neurons in your brain. Symptoms can include things such as headaches, migraines, dizziness, brain fog, sleep, disturbances, and fatigue. These symptoms, however, should start to get better if not fully resolved by about 10 to 14 days. However, in 30% of these...

After a concussion, you should start to feel better after 10 to 14 days. However, in 30% of these cases, this does not happen. And when this occurs, it's considered a chronic or persistent concussion. This leaves people feeling very frustrated, anxious, and suffer from headaches, dizziness, brain fog, neck pain, and irritability. So, what causes an acute concussion and what causes it to become chronic? Well, let's discuss that.

Hi, my name is Dr. Kevin, osteopath here at Melbourne Headache Solutions.

A concussion is a form of traumatic brain injury causing damage to the nerves and neurons in the brain. This often leaves people with feelings of dizziness, brain fog, sleep, disturbances, light, and sound sensitivity, blurred vision, as well as headaches and migraines. Concussion occurs when you have a rapid and sudden jolt to your head and neck causing you to move quickly and then suddenly slow down and stop. Dues to this trauma, there is a stretching and shearing forces going...

The AFL recently changed its Concussion Return to Play Guidelines from six up to 12 days. Well, this means that plays might miss a game. It's also a big step forward in allowing players to recover and minimize their risk of long-term repercussions of repeated head trauma and concussions. This is a good step forward in concussion awareness which is such an overlooked yet potentially long-lasting injury that many AFL players unfortunately suffer. This is partly because it's not a visible injury compared to other things such as a broken arm or a sprained ankle where you can specifically see the injury or when it's guarded by the obvious pain if you return to games or training too soon.

What is a concussion?

A concussion is considered a mild traumatic brain injury that is in a post or moderate or severe where there are no visible structural changes in imaging reports, such as x-rays or MRIs.

This includes things such as fractures or bleeding and it occurs when there's a sudden...