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Thank you @clairesconcussionjourney for sharing your story of your concussion and what you wish you could tell your younger self. Your story is so impactful and will definitely help others make the right decision in the future. We’re cheering you on and wishing you well in your recovery journey 🧡🧠 #Repost @clairesconcussionjourney ・・・ On December 3, 2012 I sat in my eighth grade history class. On December 5, 2012 I was sat up against a wall in my school. What happened on December 4, 2012? Even to this day I can’t give you a fully accurate answer because the truth is I don’t know. All I was told was that at soccer practice we had to practice indoors due to snow and I ended up falling and smashing my head into a wall and then collapsing to the ground when I got my head again. Apparently when I can to I was crying and when they asked why I started talking about mice. My speech was slurred, I was vomiting, anything that wasn’t pitch black was too bright. I saw the doctor a few days later and he diagnosed me with a #concussion. He said I also exhibited signs of a bleed. There was also definite swelling in my brain. I missed three months of school and ten months of soccer. When I returned to soccer I wasn’t symptom free. I don’t see a point in what if’s but I do think it’s important to educate through my own mistakes. That should have ended my soccer career and if I thought about quality of life in the future, I would have stopped. I was in love with soccer. I breathed for soccer. As a 13/14 year old I never though of what my life would look like in 6 years. It’s now 6 years and I still suffer with all my symptoms everyday. There’s so much I wish I could’ve told my younger self. I can’t go back though. Be honest about your symptoms and remember life is more than sports. #TTpledge #Educated #Honest #Supportive

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"The ringing in my ears, the feeling as if I’m on a boat rocking on a rough sea, total darkness, pounding headache, and just the immense pressure I felt in my head and face. The periods of blindness became longer and there were times I’d even vomit from the pain and dizziness. All from the simple act of heading a soccer ball. I started playing soccer when I was three years old. I loved soccer before I started playing and once I started playing, I fell deeply in love with the game. At three years old we began heading the ball. Despite the ball only being a size 3 at the time, it was still a questionable coaching move to have children whose heads are disproportionately larger than their weak necks and bodies, heading the ball. I never minded heading. And as I got older, I realized I didn’t have much size, I didn’t have the best skill, but I was the most fearless and pound for pound the toughest player on the field. At a young age I decided that I could and would play through any pain I may experience on the field. At only ten years old, I suffered my first of a long list of concussions. We, as a society, we’re barely talking about concussions in professional athletes in 2009 and we sure weren’t talking about concussions in children. Ever since that concussion I’ve had a headache every day. Since that concussion every time I’d head the ball I saw stars. But feeling so bad for so long became normal and eventually I started to think that feeling sick after heading a ball was normal. I told myself to toughen up. Never show pain. This mentality lead me to play through countless concussions, lie to doctors, Coaches, and my parents about my symptoms going away. I barely graduated from eighth grade due to a very severe concussion. By that time I was on concussion six. I missed three months of school and was in and out for the rest of the year. When I was in school, I spent most of my time at the nurse’s office laying in a dark room, sipping ginger-ale. With that concussion, the neurologist told me that I definitely had a concussion and most likely had a brain bleed. I missed ten months of soccer before lying to my doctor Continued👇

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Radio Interview

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/braininjuryradio/2019/08/29/post-concussion-syndrome-womens-sports-on-recovery-now-with-kim-justus

Book by Anne Clauss

Concussion Legacy Foundation

https://concussionfoundation.org/story/concussions-changed-trajectory-my-life