Standards for Post-Concussion Care
Ontario Neurotrama Foundation. (2017).
Toronto (Canada): Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, 1-93.
<div>This guideline from the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation offers recommendations for providing collaborative post-concussion care by healthcare professionals to individuals who have sustained a concussion. Although many recommendations focus on the process and coordination of services throughout the post-concussion care pathway, this summary highlights recommendations within the scope of audiologists and speech-language pathologists.</div>
Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (Canada)
Individuals who have sustained a concussion should be referred to an audiologist with appropriate qualifications and concussion experience to treat symptoms of tinnitus, sensitivity to sound, and/or hearing loss.
Individuals who have sustained a concussion should receive timely, evidence-based treatments and best practices from a clinic team or network of interdisciplinary healthcare providers with expertise in concussion management. To access specialized healthcare providers as needed, telepractice should be considered.
Individuals who have sustained a concussion should be referred to a speech-language pathologist with appropriate qualifications and concussion experience to treat cognitive-communication deficits, motor speech deficits, swallowing deficits, and/or social communication deficits for return-to-school or work.
