From sports injuries to slips, trips and falls – any knock on the head can lead to a concussion. It can take just ten minutes to diagnose, but the recovery itself isn’t always as straightforward.

There’s such a complicated range of symptoms that there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. The traditional advice was to prescribe rest and darkness, then wait and see. But the longer it takes the brain to recover, the more of an impact it has on someone’s work, social life and emotional wellbeing. And if they’re really unlucky, the symptoms can persist for months or even years.

So we started looking at proactive ways to accelerate recovery. In collaboration with some of the world’s leading concussion experts, we pioneered an Active Recovery approach to brain health that uses specific movements to advance the healing process.