How Post Concussion Anxiety Could Be Holding You Back & What To Do About It! | ACD - Ep. 111

Published 2021-04-28
In this episode we discuss how post-concussion anxiety might be holding you back from achieving recovery and also what you can do about it! We discuss:
-The distinction between anxiety & “it’s all in your head”
-The relationship between concussion and anxiety
-The different forms anxiety can take and the symptoms you may experience
-How anxiety can mimic concussion and also prevent your nervous system from healing and
-Things you can incorporate into your care program to counteract these effects!

Interested in learning more about the treatment and management of concussion?

-- CONCUSSION PATIENTS! Learn how to treat your concussion from home in Dr. Cameron Marshall’s weekly online workshops. Click here to learn more: smarturl.it/workshopcdoc

-- CLINICIANS AND REHAB THERAPISTS (PT, DC, OT, AT, etc.)! Learn how to treat ANY Concussion Patient that enters your clinic in Dr. Cameron Marshall’s weekly online workshops. Click here to learn more: smarturl.it/workshopcc

Follow Dr. Cameron Marshall on Instagram for daily information on concussion: @completeconcussions

All Comments (19)
  • @user-ql3zg3cp5c
    Thank you for shedding light on my symptoms, and this slow road to recovery. I've never been socially awkward, but my inability to gather sentences, coupled with the monetary stress of my accident; had me feeling like I was going crazy. Stress is the worst thing for PCS patients. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
  • What you are sharing is golden. I am so grateful for you to be able to share all this important information about concussion and anxiety FOR FREE. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
  • @petergianf
    This video is a life savior. Thank you so much!
  • @user-in4mz9go4d
    Brain fog and reading inability kills me with anxiety but the few times that i manage to collect myself and pray, i start to understand what im reading, personally, anxiety is my number 1 obstacle, without it, even with difficulties i can definitely do the things even though it requires more work
  • for fuck's sake if my doctor had told me that I'm not automatically doing myself damage by testing triggers and working my way up to stuff... i might be so much better off. I've been terrified of everything that brought on any symptoms and I've been fretting I've been giving myself a bunch of extra concussions, just as you describe. my attitude to health and injury has always been to stay active and do as much as I can without exacerbating things, and to keep scaling up... but with PCS i didn't because my i specifically asked my doctor if i could be making it worse and she didn't really have anything to say about it - so I played it safe and got more anxious
  • @shaunDmond
    thank you very much for showing me its my anxiety holding me back i wanted to avoid thing i was passionate about worried that id get another concussion because it is contact related, i was in a work place accident involving getting tossed against a trench wall by at 8' steel piece of pipe almost didn't make it out alive but i am and i turned into avoiding my passion due to the concussion i recieved at the time, now i am going to take baby steps to procue the passion again thank you very much very informative love it you made my day sir
  • @808soldier
    Yes Doc I've had this problem since 2017 and the Doctor's Hawaii (Maui) are well skilled with all the symptoms you've mentioned. I have arthritis in neck C1-T? forgot, vestibular nerve damage, multiple concussions, ptsd, bipolar 1, hyperthyroidism, scars on my head and face, Navy Vet.
  • Thank you so much for sharing this. Had to watch the entire video. I had concussion in 2021 and severe blow to my head. Totally about if you have pre existing anxiety that it gets worse after concussion. Really working on my therapy now. I have persistent anxiety even just by working night shift which in the past night shift didn't use to scare me. Now I am all messed up crying, painful neck, back pain just by working at night.
  • It feels like that you are speaking my life through your video. Subscribed to your channel for more educational videos.
  • @AcesOntheRiver
    Great Episode thanks! Have you ever seen eye strain and dizziness continue with the root coming from Anxiety?
  • @wesporter2176
    Dr. Marshall I understand you believe many times PCS can be caused by issues in the neck. I have come across a type of chiropractic practice called NUCCA that addresses the connection between the neck and head and is claimed to be very effective in this area. Just wondering why you haven't mentioned it as far as I have heard. Is it something you don't recommend?
  • @etherialle
    What’s the g force of bumping heads hard while diving forward towards each other during a martial arts drill-I just want an estimate
  • @walwala78
    You mentioned rotational level of acceleration/velocity to sustain a concussion. What is that level? Would getting T boned at 30 mph get to that level or is it all neck?
  • @etherialle
    Why are you hypersensitive for a short period of time? It’s been three weeks since my second concussion. My first was very severe with anxiety crisis and extreme hypersensitivity. This time around it is not so severe and I and facing things rather than escalating the anxiety. I haven’t been to work as my last shift caused an extreme symptom response a week and a half after the hit. I am at a loss right now because my next is in such locked tension and my forehead as well which is prob causing my dizziness that is still getting better but the tension just will not go away. Any help will be a life saver. There are no specialists that are legit around me.
  • @niepboss3374
    My friend slapped me on my neck multiple times, I’m not sure if that’ll give me a concussion