A Case For Holistic Athlete Care After a Concussion: a Multimedia Project
Faculty Sponsor(s)
Kevin Curry
Subject Area
Journalism and Media Studies
Description
This project aims to bridge the gap between athletics and academics to support Linfield student-athletes after they suffer a concussion. To ensure a student can recover and still remain academically eligible, they may need access to additional resources. However, students may struggle to advocate for themselves, symptoms resulting from brain injury can affect communication, patience, and reasoning abilities. To help facilitate understanding and communication, this project aims to explain concussion symptoms, recovery process, and effects to non-experts; it will also propose an internal communication process between athletic trainers, faculty, and office of student care to help a student advocate for themselves and provide reasonable and transparent communications to their professors. This website and handout will act as a directory, covering the basics of injury and recovery, while also providing photos, graphics, and a student-case study. The hope is that this resource eventually is usable not only by the faculty and staff but by the students themselves pre-concussion to aid their understanding, should they experience a concussion.
Recommended Citation
Omonaka, Riley, "A Case For Holistic Athlete Care After a Concussion: a Multimedia Project" (2024). Linfield University Student Symposium: A Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Achievement. Event. Submission 26.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/symposium/2024/all/26
A Case For Holistic Athlete Care After a Concussion: a Multimedia Project
This project aims to bridge the gap between athletics and academics to support Linfield student-athletes after they suffer a concussion. To ensure a student can recover and still remain academically eligible, they may need access to additional resources. However, students may struggle to advocate for themselves, symptoms resulting from brain injury can affect communication, patience, and reasoning abilities. To help facilitate understanding and communication, this project aims to explain concussion symptoms, recovery process, and effects to non-experts; it will also propose an internal communication process between athletic trainers, faculty, and office of student care to help a student advocate for themselves and provide reasonable and transparent communications to their professors. This website and handout will act as a directory, covering the basics of injury and recovery, while also providing photos, graphics, and a student-case study. The hope is that this resource eventually is usable not only by the faculty and staff but by the students themselves pre-concussion to aid their understanding, should they experience a concussion.
