After a concussion, the brain must work harder to complete tasks that were easy to complete before the concussion. Things like looking at a screen, being in a noisy environment, or exercise will tire out your brain much more easily. In other words, your threshold of tolerance for stimulus to the brain is lower.

Two years ago, our Physiotherapist Lori Anne clipped a rock with a ski in a Ski Mountaineering Race Castle Mountain Resort and had a traumatic, aggressive, and season-ending crash. As she prepared to return to racing this fall, she began to experience flashbacks of the crash. Going back to the same racecourse for her first race back was a seemingly overwhelming task.