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I see so many kids that they have been to the hospital and they go in that traditional route where the urgent care they've been to the pediatrician, they don't deal with concussions because it's so complex.

I have an actual device in my office, it's a $35,000 piece of equipment that tests specifically for the VISTA of the cochlear conclusion.

A lot of these trainers are unaware of the actual balance examination and why that's important.

We're forcing basically oxygen inside the cell to break down that toxic calcium, so therefore they can't recover a lot quicker.

We also do eye therapy, which is where you have the person's stare that the computer screen in the bars will either be vertical or horizontal and they have to follow with that.

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Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield and if I think back to some of the worst injuries of my life, one of them that really stands out is a mountain bike crash that I had when I was 13 years old.

I remember riding my bike down the driveway, I remember hitting some little bumps all in a row, and then I woke up at the hospital.

And apparently I woke up two or three hours later at the hospital and I had gotten a pretty significant concussion.

Just totally blacked out, forgot everything. I of course wasn't wearing my helmet and from that point forward for the rest of my life, including when I would do something as simple as climb a tree, my mom would have me wear a helmet.

But probably with good cause because I did a good deal of head damage and I've always wondered for myself and for my own kids if a concussion like that is something that I maybe could have or should have done more about when it came to me.

I would have been able to follow up healing and making sure there wasn't lasting brain inflammation or damage or Lord knows what else may have happened to me that has made me a different person than I could have been.

But anyways, concussions are kind of a mystery to a lot of people. It's like you get a head injury and I have a client who I'll keep them completely confidential, but their wife just had a pretty significant head injury and they're kind of waiting through this themselves.

So what do you do as far as healing, as far as diet, as far as testing to make sure there's not lasting damage, as far as like a lot of the alternative medical remedies out there for concussions, what works, what doesn't.

So when it comes to head injuries and it comes to concussions, I know that this is a topic that's near and dear to many folks's hearts, whether you've had a concussion or whether you're concerned about your child who made place offer or ride bikes or play football or something like that.

So I think it's a very important topic to get a guy on the call who knows a lot about concussions. He is in fact a concussion health certified provider. He's a sports chiropractic physician. He's an ART certified provider. He's what's called an impact certified provider, which actually has to do with concussion management. His name is Dr. Kelly Ryder.

He is an athlete himself. He was a long distance runner when he was 14 and he returned to the field actually competing the US junior Olympic track and field after going through some injuries earlier in life.

And now he helps a lot with athletes. He helps athletes get back to the competitive field after injury and one of the things like I mentioned that he specializes in is concussions. So Dr. Kelly Ryder, thanks for coming on the call man.

Yeah, thank you. Thanks for having me. Well, I guess we're going to test your knowledge right off the batman because I'm going to ask you like the glaringly obvious question. That is what is a concussion?

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