Episode XX Dr. David Howell PhD: The Future of Concussion Research

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David R. Howell, Ph.D., ATC is the Lead Researcher at the Children's Hospital Colorado Sports Medicine Center and Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Orthopedics. He received his Ph.D. in 2014 in the Department of Human Physiology at the University of Oregon and completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Division of Sports Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital.

He doesn’t like long intros, so in brief, his primary research interests consist of investigating clinically pragmatic and objective methods that help clinicians diagnose, manage, and treat sport-related concussion. He has authored studies in peer-reviewed journals across the topics of sports medicine, biomechanics, neuroscience, rehabilitation, and pediatric medicine.

#FOAMed Resources:

Return to activity after concussion affects dual-task gait balance control recovery https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=25100340

Single-task and dual-task tandem gait test performance after concussion https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=28169147

Physical Activity Level and Symptom Duration Are Not Associated After Concussion https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26838933

Continuing Play, Symptom Severity, and Symptom Duration After Concussion in Youth Athletes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=29337721