Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

TBI Diagnosis: Challenges in Pro Sports & Practice

9 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A short talk by Jeff Langmaid discussing the subjective nature and bias in diagnosing traumatic brain injury (TBI) severity, using professional sports as a prominent example of uncertainty in prognosis. The speaker contrasts the well-resourced pro-sports environment—where teams are still "figuring it out" despite vast resources—with smaller clinical practices, noting diagnosis and outcome prediction remain difficult but there are actions clinicians can take to improve patient results.

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Diagnosis of a traumatic brain injury severity is pretty subjective. It's open to a significant amount of bias and predicting the outcome can be challenging and we see this there's no greater example than in the pro sports realm. They're figuring it out as they go along very clearly. So when we look at the pro sports realm that have hundreds of millions if not in some cases billion dollar plus with an athlete with their salary, what they bring to the table and marketing expense et cetera and they're kind of figuring it out as they go along there that provides probably when they have all of the tools in unlimited capital for us in a smaller practice setting. Let's say it's challenging to really assess and it can be really challenging to predict the outcome but that doesn't mean and this article will highlight that doesn't mean there aren't things we can do to help that process along and maximize the results for the individuals that come into our practice.