Hello.

I suffered a very minor concussion on Jan. 3rd from a snowboarding fall. It is now 2.5 weeks later.

My question is related to a stress relieving exercise that I do that also helps soothe the scalp and helps with dry skin/itchiness of my scalp:

I plant a hair brush on my scalp, pushing down so the bristles are held in place. I then vibrate the brush forward and back, causing the scalp skin underneath to move back and forth in a rapid/quick pulsed way. The secondary effect of this is that my head vibrates minorly forward and backward. Again, my head barely moves at all in relation to distance, it is mainly the scalp skin moving, but my head does gyrate a just a little. But it is in a quick/pulsed style. I do this for 10 min 2x/day

I showed this to my neurologist and he doesnt think it would be of any concern. He basically just said, if it aggravates any symptoms then I should cut back, but if it didn't then Im good to go. When I did this exercise today, I didn't really notice any aggravation of my symptoms, maybe just some blood rushing to my scalp as I havent done it in a couple weeks.

So my 2 questions:

1) What does everyone think about this exercise in relation to the slight movement it causes when talking about a period after a concussion?

2) For concussions in general, is the individual permanently always more susceptible to minor head movements/gyration, for example from jogging? Any personal experiences with those experiencing or not experiencing this?

Thanks in advance!


*P.S. In case mark from Idaho sees this post, I am looking and open for any input on this. I am hoping our previous conversation doesn't deter from you sharing your wealth of knowledge on concussion related matters. I truly do value your thoughts on these matters and I hope we can move on from any possible quibbles we had. It was just an unfortunate case of miscommunication I think. Hope all is well with you sir.