An interesting and frightening paper about youth football. We have seen in prior studies, the longer someone plays football, the greater their risk of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). A recent study looks at another factor, age the the player started playing football. It appears in this relatively small study of 211 autopsied brains with 84 […]
How The Spine ‘Feeds’ The Brain
Spinal movement is a strong driver of input into an area of the brain called the cerebellum. I know, it sounds complicated! We’ll keep it simple and look at why the spine is so important to our nervous system in this post. The spine is a primary driver of cerebellar and amazingly all brain function. […]
Optimal Diet For Kid’s Health, Mental, and Physical Performance
There’s this current push to eat a heavily plant based or vegan diet and to give up eating any animal derived foods. The underlying theme is that vegan diets are healthier than diets that include animals. There is a good reason to question this idea. Certain key nutrients are missing if we don’t eat any […]
Your Neck’s Major Impact On Balance, Movement, and Brain Function
A study published in Experimental Brain Research looked at the neck’s influence on brain’s balance and knowing where we are in space. Researchers found that neck movement had a major impact on our brain’s ability to maintain these systems (the vestibular system). This is very important for people with losses of neck motion, neck pain, […]
Why Do So Many People Get Concussions?
Concussions Are Much More Common Than You Think… From Sports, Falls, Car Accidents, and More Our brains are especially susceptible to injury because of so many factors including it’s soft composition, it’s extreme wiring complexity, the hard skull in which it’s enclosed, the skull’s position on the relatively long and less stable neck, and our […]
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