Concussion Matters

Aimee was in an auto accident, in 2001, nearly losing her life. She sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI)and lost her husband in that accident, only a short time after they were married. Aimee has personal experience with grief and loss. She has since remarried and has learned much from her ordeals. Her specific areas of expertise include grief, death and dying, trauma recovery, traumatic brain injury, faith transition, and self-esteem. Areas of special interest include working with sexual abuse survivors, pre-marital and marital counseling. She is a certified Rape Trauma Advocate. Aimee also enjoys working with teens entering the transitional stage to adulthood. She has also taught seminars on suicide prevention, stress management, communication skills, de-stressing your marriage, grief and loss, and dealing with trauma. Aimee has a Master of Arts Degree in Mental Health Counseling and a Master of Science Degree inAdministration and Supervision from Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Family and Human Development from Utah State University.Aimee is an American Mental Health Counseling Association (AMHCA) Diplomat and Clinical Mental Health Specialist (DCMHS) in Trauma Counseling and Couples Counseling. Her background is impressive, having worked at Valley Mental Health, Blomquist Hale Consulting,The Division of Child and Family Services, and Family Services Foundation, Inc. She also worked with Cognitive FX. Aimee provides individual, couples, and family counseling services.  

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Our brains are neuroplastic, meaning that their structure and function are literally, physically shaped by that which we do repeatedly in our lives – behaviors, emotions, and even thoughts. This works both for you and against you. We have much more power to recover from a brain injury, improve our brain’s functioning, recover from depression, and create our own happiness and reality with the gray matter between our ears than ever thought possible. Neuroplasticity is the super power we all are born with and possess until the day we die. On my blog and website, I share information about the tools I used to heal myself and my life physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually and related topics to inspire and encourage you to take control of and change your brain and life for the better.

The neuromat ® is a colorful, fun and easy way to facilitate walking in a figure 8 pattern. It offers parents, teachers, and therapists a multi-sensory approach to teaching virtually any person at any age how to walk (forward/backward), crawl, hop, skip or jump in a simple figure 8 pattern.The motor movement of walking in a figure 8 pattern is based on years of research.  This strategic method encourages the brain to integrate many functional skills at the same time, thus increasing its ability to multi-task.  When the brain is able to process sensory information and turn those messages into appropriate motor actions, learning takes place.  There are many different cognitive ability levels, but the ability to use the brain to the best of its’ ability, is a skill that must be developed, practiced and maintained.

AEXOS is proud to announce the launch of HALO™– a compression shirt designed to perform like equipment by reducing whiplash of the head and neck during impacts in contact sports. The advanced base layer provides postural support that works with the natural movements of an athlete, without affecting range of motion or mobility. HALO™ incorporates smart materials that are engineered to respond during impact. The core technology behind HALO allows the shirt’s collar to stiffen during a whiplash event, improving neck stability and reducing causal factors of whiplash injury and concussion.

The Imagine X Migraine Program is one of the best and most cutting-edge migraine programs in the entire world. Dr. Adam Harcourt has developed a custom program based on the latest research (some of which is his own), his years of experience seeing migraine patients, and his passion for finding the root cause of migraines and correcting it.  

A private, nonprofit organization, BIA-MA provides Support & Resources to brain injury survivors and their families; Prevention Programs to educate the public on the impact of brain injuries; Education & Training for brain injury survivors, caregivers and professionals; and Legislative Advocacy for improved community services and safety laws (seat belts, helmets). BIA-MA annually provides support, information and resources to approximately 14,000 survivors, families and medical professionals. BIA-MA sponsors more than 50 support groups throughout Massachusetts which provides a forum for sharing information about brain injury and an opportunity to meet others who share similar experiences and concerns. It also organizes a variety of educational, recreational and social activities. BIA-MA collaborates with the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC), Department of Public Health (DPH), Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV), Executive Office of Elder Affairs, and other associations to prevent brain injuries and provide services to survivors. The Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts was incorporated in 1982 and is a chartered affiliate of the Brain Injury Association of America. Our Mission  is to create a better future for brain injury survivors through brain injury prevention, education, advocacy and support.

The StopConcussions Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that has four main pillars: Prevention, Education, Management and Research. StopConcussions was designed to educate players, administrators, physicians, coaches and officials on the cause, effects and consequences of concussions and neurotrama injuries, not only in hockey but all sports. Increased awareness and prevention instruction is a must, and through the information, resources, and services provided through our site, our goal is that the individuals that visit our page leave more knowledgeable, and as ultimately safer individuals in their respective sports. With StopConcussion affiliates located in the USA, as well as Germany we are working on bringing concussion and neurotrauma awareness to a global level. Safe4Sports has conducted both dry and on ice seminars around the world including Germany, Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada

  Aimee was in an auto accident, in 2001, nearly losing her life. She sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI)and lost her husband in that accident, only a short time after they were married. Aimee has personal experience with grief and loss. She has since remarried and has learned much from her ordeals. Her specific areas of expertise include grief, death and dying, trauma recovery, traumatic brain injury, faith transition, and self-esteem. Areas of special interest include working with sexual abuse survivors, pre-marital and marital counseling. She is a certified Rape Trauma Advocate. Aimee also enjoys working with teens entering the transitional stage to adulthood. She has also taught seminars on suicide prevention, stress management, communication skills, de-stressing your marriage, grief and loss, and dealing with trauma. Aimee has a Master of Arts Degree in Mental Health Counseling and a Master of Science Degree inAdministration and Supervision from Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Family and Human Development from Utah State University.Aimee is an American Mental Health Counseling Association (AMHCA) Diplomat and Clinical Mental Health Specialist (DCMHS) in Trauma Counseling and Couples Counseling. Her background is impressive, having worked at Valley Mental Health, Blomquist Hale Consulting,The Division of Child and Family Services, and Family Services Foundation, Inc. She also worked with Cognitive FX. Aimee provides individual, couples, and family counseling services.              

This evening's guest is Lyn Simser-O'Callaghan, Lyn comes from a small town, tight-knit family. She played competetive sports until the age of 21 and taught middle school for 23 years. While teaching, she also ran 2 family businesses. She is the mom to 2 children, and foster mom to two girls as well.  Lyn volunteered for Little League for 9 years as Secretary and Director of Fundraising. She also managed her son’s hockey team as well as his double A baseball teams. Lyn has traveled extensively throughout Canada, the US and the Caribbean.  She is joining me to discuss how her son's concussions have affected her family, and why awareness and education is so important.   

Helmets to Heal will help lead your program to a safer future, while creating and tracking real time data. Through their 3-step process, parents will be educated, and be able to mitigate, as well as empowered,  to help their program for the following year. The goal is to share the program's success in every community and develop a marketing platform that helps increase each program's participation rates for years to come. The mission is simply to help youth sports programs.

All of a sudden, anyone who is connected to a Brain Injury, their life becomes a little MoCrazy. A Brain Injury does shut some doors, but it also opens doors. This show will be talking to survivors, caregivers, therapists, anyone immediately involved with a Brain Injury to learn different ways to overcome this struggle and walk through new doors. Every single person who had a Brain Injury has new doors opened for them, take a leap of faith and walk through those doors.   On September 23rd I will be interviewing Anna, the Marketing Director at Cognitive FX.   Cognitive FX is a neurorehabilitation clinic in Provo, UT continuing to understand and revolutionize the way we treat individuals that suffer from brain injury or disease. Ultimately, CFX seeks to utilize research to support as many individuals as possible in their recovery process. Using a multidisciplinary team approach Cognitive FX empowers individuals to have the ability to sustain a higher quality of life. This is accomplished by offering premium rehabilitation through EPIC treatment, and by increasing awareness of brain injury and recovery. As part of our focus, Cognitive FX stays on the cutting edge of research and contributions to the field of neuroscience and its clinical applications. Cognitive FX will continue contributing research findings to the intellectual field with the goal to advance understanding and focus on educating and supporting individuals worldwide. Types of neurological disorders and brain injuries we specialize in: mTBI or Concussion Treatment (EPIC Treatment) Pre-Dementia Treatment

Concussion Mitigation Technologies, LLC, was founded in 2011 and is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The company was founded on the premise that higher technology is readily available to protect the brain in endeavors such as athletics and the military.    Concussion Mitigation Technology’s, LLC featured product is the Smart Cap®.  This cap, weighing less than 4 ounces, goes on the head before a helmet is placed on the wearers head.  It contains impact and bio sensors that are transmitted wirelessly to a smart phone or other personal electronic devices.   The Smart Cap® can be worn by any athlete or military personnel with any type of helmet or hair style.  The Smart Cap® has applications for football, hockey, baseball, Lacrosse, and soccer (Smart Band™ format) and our U.S. Service men and women.  The Smart Cap® was successfully demonstrated on youth football players in on field scrimmages and is now in further Development, Test, and Evaluation against the Hybrid III Headform© and state of the art 6 axis sensors embedded within.

Joining me is Dr. Kristen Willeumier. Dr. Willeumier is a neuroscientist with knowledge on how the brain is affected by health, nutrition and the impact of concussions. Dr. Willeumier served as the Director of Research for the Amen Clinics from 2009-2016 to help advance the research mission of exploring how brain SPECT imaging can transform clinical practice. She has authored or co-authored 52 scientific manuscripts in peer reviewed journals. Areas of published research include traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, attention deficit disorder, autism, biomarkers of suicide, obesity, gender differences in brain function, clinical outcomes, and brain rehabilitation. Together with Dr. Amen and colleagues, she led a clinical research trial investigating the long-term effects of repetitive subconcussive impacts in NFL football players. Subsequent work focused on therapeutic approaches to rehabilitate brain function in athletes. The current emphasis of her work is in investigating biomarkers for treatment of psychiatric disorders using machine learning applications. Dr.Willeumier was a Senior Research Fellow of the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT) and is a member of the 2018 Scientific Committee for the SBMT 15th Annual World Brain Mapping Congress.