I am 7 1/2 weeks post concussion. I am a new member that signed on as madison but was unable to access from my password so I have signed in as karly. My story has been the typical crash into concrete with my head and have the terrible results of pcs. I have looked into treatments and have met with a doctor that has been working for years with a different electrical machine, as well as trigger point massage, followed by very regimented exercises. He works with all pain issues as well as muscle diseases and helps them to have better result for releif from pain. I stongly beleive that the whiplash effect is the cuprit to our pain. He and other doctors have confrimed that my headaches, confusion, ringing in the ears, concentration problems are all due to shoulder and neck spasams that results from the accident. Your shoulders and you neck have many large and small muscles that wrap around your nervous sysytem. When they are hard and do not release than they pull on the nerves that cause pain, as well as slow the flow of the blood to the brain which will also impair your judgment and make things confusing. I am from Canada just 45 min from toronto area. Pepole come from all over for his machine that uses waves of currents that forces the mucles to relax. The other benefit to this program is it isn't a 1/2 massage and a few exercises, It takes 3-4 hours and they let you stay and exercise the shoulders neck and core to stablize the neck area. the exercises also stretch out the muscle that will cause us pain. I am in week 5 of treatment 2 days a week and i must due the strenghtening and stretching twice a day. This doctor has been working on blood flow pain etc for years.
i have come on my first real leap towards becoming normal. I can now concentrate on computers, mathematics all function incapabilities I had before.now i am working hard at reducing the headaches with the stretches and I must say they are improving. I can watch tv again and enoy a movie.
I would say then what is important is to keep moving around, don't stay lying around your muscles will stay spasmed and it will take a long time to release.
check out his website and see what it is about. He has had great success in a shorter period of time to heal post concussion I am about to do the stretches now. I worked full time this week and when the headaches got worse I applied heat and stretched the pain a way. The web sie is called MMTR. I looked forward to my session and am confident that soon I will be completely well and pain free. i think I found the site searching for a article under boy from cambridge gets well frompost concussion. there is an article about his recovery. regards

Hi Karly, thanks for your report. You are so lucky to have found help early in your recovery and I hope you will continue to improve. It took me a long time to learn about tight muscles and the connection to headaches and dizziness. I am now seeing a chiropractor and he uses electro-stimmulation and ultrasound and also gave me some stretching exercises to do to loosen up the neck and shoulder muscles. He told me to use ice and not heat on my neck. He also told me not to sleep with my arm up under my head - that habbit has been hard to change!