S10 Ep62: Service Course | The concussion protocol
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Lizzy speaks to HIT Recognition founder, Euan Bowen about their device which can be placed on the back of a helmet and which provides instant g-force data to assess the impact when a rider sustains a hit to the head. Dr David Stevens of Neuroflex tells us about their virtual reality headset that is already transforming concussion recognition pitchside in rugby. Could this have the potential to be a fast, accurate and independent method of assessing vestibular and ocular motor changes due to concussion roadside in cycling?
Lizzy speaks to physiotherapist and coach, Tom Fallon, who is providing a concussion education program to the Cycling Ireland junior programme and has also performed research on athlete attitudes to concussion.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm leaving now. You are listening to Service Course by the cycling podcast powered by Super |
| 0:13.6 | Sapiens, Energy Management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:18.2 | Welcome to Service Course, I'm Tom Wally and with Lizzie Banks and Lizzie Banks has got |
| 0:22.0 | cat hair in her eye. Hello Tom, yeah, drama here as ever. Another medical problem for Lizzie |
| 0:29.0 | Banks. First concussion, then pericarditis due to covid and then cat hair in the eye, |
| 0:35.8 | which is probably the worst affliction of those three. Hello, welcome back. Good to back |
| 0:42.6 | with you all. Oh, good to see you. The pericarditis thing actually, that's worth mentioning |
| 0:48.3 | because there's been a bit of a state of it in the pro-pelitor I've noticed. Have you |
| 0:52.7 | spoken much about it? Because obviously you've been suffering for what? About a month |
| 0:55.6 | or so per month. Yeah, so it's not something we've actually discussed on the cycling |
| 1:00.2 | podcast yet, but the issue of sickness in the peloton is one that has obviously hugely affected |
| 1:08.7 | so many races this year or well, the last few years, but in particular this spring, you |
| 1:15.4 | know, parinis have the lowest number of finishes ever. We're obviously still seeing people |
| 1:20.0 | drop out of the Giro with covid cases, stomach bugs, which actually seems to be neurovirus, |
| 1:27.0 | you know, and also just really bad viral, non-covid related viral illnesses. But yeah, so I |
| 1:35.3 | actually unfortunately came down with covid 20 hours before my first race back in February |
| 1:40.2 | and thought that I'd recovered from it, came back to racing at Gennemaublegum and then |
| 1:46.9 | raced at Tvazor Blondron, came home after the tragic news of Richard passing away. And |
| 1:56.6 | I was also having some trouble breathing, but because of, you know, the shock of Richard's |
| 2:02.5 | passing, I wasn't sure kind of what those symptoms were related to when I was getting |
| 2:07.1 | some chest pain, which I initially put down to the anxiety of the loss. But it continued |
| 2:13.8 | to get worse and worse that week over the course of the next week to the point where I took |
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