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Life After Impact: The Concussion Recovery Podcast

Author: Ayla Wolf, DAOM

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Life After Impact: The Concussion Recovery Podcast. This podcast is the go-to podcast for actionable information to help people recover from concussions, brain injuries, and post-concussion syndrome. Dr. Ayla Wolf does a deep dive in discussing symptoms, testing methods, treatment options, and resources to help people troubleshoot where they feel stuck in their recovery. The podcast brings you interviews with top experts in the field of concussions and brain injuries, and introduces a functional neurological mindset to approaching complex cases.


For those feeling lost, hopeless, or abandoned let this podcast be your guide to living your best life after impact. Subscribe now and start your journey to recovery!

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How many concussions are too many—and could we someday measure the cumulative effect of every hit to the head? Dr. Joseph Maroon, longtime team neurosurgeon for the Pittsburgh Steelers and a pioneer in concussion and traumatic brain injury research, joins Life After Impact to discuss multiple concussions, repetitive head impacts, subconcussive exposure, CTE, and the future of concussion testing. Dr. Maroon helped develop ImPACT, the neurocognitive test that transformed how the NFL, NHL,...
Brain injury and concussion recovery don't happen only in a rehabilitation clinic—they happen at home, at work, in the grocery store, in the kitchen, and in the hundreds of everyday tasks that can suddenly become harder after a traumatic brain injury. In this episode of Life After Impact: The Concussion Recovery Podcast, I talk with cognitive-motor neuroscientist and neurological occupational therapist Dr. Christopher Gaskins about practical brain injury rehabilitation, cognitive fatigu...
Your eyes can be the bottleneck in concussion recovery, and they can also be the missing piece when someone still has headaches years later despite doing “all the right things.” We sit down with Dr. Melissa Biscardi to unpack her PhD work on eye movements and concussion, including a virtual reality (VR) eye training intervention that adapts week by week based on how each person performs and what symptoms show up. We talk through what clinicians can actually measure, why near point of converge...
What if we could objectively measure how the brain is functioning after a concussion—in just six minutes? Concussion and post-concussion syndrome can affect attention, cognitive processing, reaction time, and brain function even when conventional imaging does not provide the answers patients are looking for. In this episode of Life After Impact: The Concussion Recovery Podcast, Dr. Ayla Wolf talks with neuroscientist Dr. Ryan D’Arcy, co-founder, President, and Chief Scientific Officer of Heal...
A brain injury can change far more than memory, balance, headaches, or cognition. It can change your career, your relationships, your independence—and sometimes your entire sense of who you are. In this episode of Life After Impact, I sit down with Jamie Arber, a licensed professional counselor, Certified Brain Injury Specialist, brain injury survivor, and Executive Director of the Supported Living Group in Connecticut, to explore a part of brain injury recovery that doesn't receive nearly en...
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