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Health, Wealth and The Ultimate Self
By Dr. Matt Rayner and Dr Brandon NuttBusinessEntrepreneurshipMedicineAlternative HealthHealth & FitnessNutritionMental HealthEducationSelf-Improvement
Health, Wealth and The Ultimate Self episodes
- Concussion and Improved Baseline Testing for the Brain
We see athletes from all levels, from High school to professional and there is one common theme…that concussion and baseline testing of the brain and its performance can be much better.
This episode dives into the current trends in concussion baseline testing as well as what other options are out there to help refine and improve the assessment and ultimately improve brain performance and safety.
Both Drs Rayner and Nutt have played sports at a high level, from lacrosse to hockey, and know first hand that getting a concussion can be devastating. Even more devastating is when you, your child or the athlete returns too soon before a TRUE return to normal brain function has occurred.
Your baseline concussion is only as good as what you initially and consistently measure and when it comes to athletes most baseline brain assessments do not measure much beyond cognitive function. Using measures like the VNG to assess eye movements has been demonstrated to be a predictable measure of brain performance and pull in many regions of brain function. Eye movements accurately capture the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, vestibular and cerebellar function as well as regions of the brain stem. Not only does this allow for better baseline testing this can also identify areas of weakness in the athlete that can be targeted and improved with functional neurological techniques that drive neuroplasticity in these areas. This ultimately leads to a better athlete that can interact with their environment more precisely. One can also argue that this can help minimize their concussion risk as well as lead to a more thorough baseline assessment.
It is also important to note that parents and players can find more complete testing and performance monitoring with the various applications like EQ Brain Performance App and C3 Logix. See the Links Below.
https://highmark.tech/digital/eq-brain-performance/
http://www.c3logix.com/
At the end of the day we want to see our athletes have the best oversight and support and we would love to see the baseline concussion standard testing evolve.
Please help support this mission in baseline concussion testing by sharing and spreading this podcast and please subscribe for more great functional neurological and functional medicine education as it relates to brain performance as well as many other great topics to help lift up our community and healthcare.
40 min - Welcome...Our Vision and Mission and What's Coming!
After years of our patients asking, we are finally launching our podcast. This episode is an intro into our vision and mission and where we see our podcast going in the future. We are excited to bring health topics, special guests and growth to our listeners.
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About Health, Wealth and The Ultimate Self
From the publisher's feed
Educational, motivational and conversational! Functional and Integrative healthcare providers diving deep into the latest in integrative healthcare and pushing listeners to build the best and most…
fulfilling version of themselves "their Ultimate Self". Special guests along the way to share their unique stories in health, business and self-development, their ups and downs and their pursuit of their vision and mission.
This podcast was motivated by over a decade of patients telling and encouraging us to record our conversations and perspectives on various health subjects. For years we kept talking about needing to do it and finally after kicking the can down the road long enough we launched our podcast in January of 2023. Over the years, we would have conversations over the phone on our commute home. We would talk about the various things we would see in our office that day, discuss all the potential complexities of a case, the patient history that was missed from other providers. This would eventually lead to us ranting and going on and ultimately passionately discussing and advocating for a better path going forward for those patients. We would often end those calls saying that we should have recorded that! These conversations and our daily strive to help educate and empower our patients and community made this launch into a podcast not only make sense but ultimately inevitable.
We pride ourselves on fighting for patients to get better care, better answers and empowering them to take control of their health and life. This podcast is an extension of this wider push for empowering more people through education and asking for nothing in return (well maybe a share and pass long to those who would benefit from listening).
In the world of functional and integrative health there are varying shades or providers. The hope is our podcast will help listeners be better interviewers of providers out there and weed out the ones that like the sound of being an "integrative/Functional provider" but are still practicing an outdated, protocol driven and non specific model of healthcare. The world of chronic disease is growing by the minute and more and more are being impacted by chronic conditions and need providers who are willing to listen, dig deep, be humble and be willing to put the patient first above all else to figure out why the individual is where they are.
We found our way into the functional health world first with functional neurology and becoming experts in brain and neurological health. Quickly into this journey you realize the brain can not thrive without proper metabolic and cell health, Immune and cardiac function and optimal biochemistry...ultimately leading us to layer both functional and integrative medicine and functional neurology into our clinical approach. If you are going to retrain and rehab the brain you better home you can fuel it and feed it to see the best outcomes for neuroplasticity.
Our episodes are going to span across any and every top we can imagine. From mitochondrial health, anti-aging, functional medicine, functional neurology, concussion care and post concussion syndrome to mast cell activation, auto immune disease, weight gain and metabolic disease to name a few. Over the years we have been blessed to meet and work with incredible individuals and we will invite them on to share their perspective....From former pro athlete to business owner to author to renowned educator in the field, we plan to touch on it all.
We hope you enjoy our shows and discussions on functional and integrative health and we hope it can help serve you in becoming your best and strongest version of yourself. Please join in our mission to help educate and empower and ultimately force a new standard in healthcare that is about patient-centered care targeting the cause and not the symptom(s). Please share far and wide and join our mission!