Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

TBI in Sports and MVAs: What Chiropractors Must Know

14 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Jeff Langmaid introduces traumatic brain injury (TBI) for chiropractors, defining TBI as a change in normal brain function typically after an external force to the head. He frames TBI in two practical contexts important to chiropractic practice: (1) motor vehicle accidents/personal injury (where a variety of commercial TBI testing tools exist with variable quality) and (2) sports-related mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), which sports chiropractors should actively look for. He also emphasizes the importance of cervical-spine assessments and neck care in these cases.

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Buckle up. This study is a good one. Let's begin with traumatic brain injury. TBI is a change in the typical brain function. It has effects on neurologic function after an external force to the head most of the time in the chiropractic realm. We're going to classify this two ways. One is with mvis, right? Personal injury cases, motor vehicle accidents. We see a lot of TBI testing tools, companies, etc. On the market. Some are good, some are not good. Cervical spine assessments, neck care is the best. But TBI is a hot button topic relative to motor vehicle accidents. Personal injury. Also, we can see mild traumatic brain injury. Sports. This is the other big one. And if you're a sports chiropractor, I'm hard pressed to believe you're not seeing this somewhat consistently. And if you're not, it's probably just because you're not looking for it. And that's a really key component.