If you had asked me a few years ago whether concussion management would become a regular topic of my professional life, I would have said no without hesitation. As an ENT physician, my day-to-day work focuses on the ears, nose, throat, balance, hearing, and the complex systems that connect them. While those systems certainly overlap with neurology, concussion was not something I routinely evaluated or treated in my practice. If concussion was a concern, I would refer to neurology as a matter of course.
That changed the moment I stepped behind the bench as a youth ice hockey coach where accurate concussion evaluation was expected,...
