What People Are Saying About Concussion Alliance
We are grateful to be making an impact! Here is what people, including patients, caregivers, healthcare providers, researchers, interns, college administrators, and other nonprofit leaders, are saying about Concussion Alliance.
Michelle Limmer, concussion patient
After she posted about Concussion Alliance on Instagram, we interviewed Michelle Limmer about the challenges she faced getting appropriate care for a concussion and how Concussion Alliance helped her with her concussion recovery.
@michelololmade the Instagram post below, adding, “Thank you so much for your incredible work and the resources you provide! You have changed my life.”
“The work the Concussion Alliance is doing is incredibly important to concussion patients. The healthcare system can be challenging to navigate and many people need help figuring out what to do and where to go.”
In this 60-second video, Summer 2023 interns Hannah Hartmann, Zoe Cronin, Nora Williamson, and Charley Draheim talk about how the Concussion Alliance internship program affected their future career aspirations. Nora talks about how she will be able to apply the skills she learned in the internship to future research, while Hannah, Zoe, and Charley discuss how the internship highlighted how many career paths are possible within the field of concussion research.
“Thank you so much for the wonderful resources you’ve made available on this site. It has been hugely helpful in my research on how to alleviate my loved one’s suffering.
Thank you, again, for everything you are doing in this desperately needed field.”
In a 45-second video, Summer 2023 interns Anna Center, Charley Draheim, and Alex Rosmarino describe their overall experiences with the Concussion Alliance internship program and the specific aspects of the program that they enjoyed the most.
“After viewing the webinar [“A Patient-Centered Approach to Concussion Care”], my understanding of concussion and its immediate and long-term symptoms was much clearer. As a rugby coach, and referee, it’s a great tool to educate myself and colleagues about the subject in accessible terms.
The importance of aftercare, both physicaly, and, more importantly, mentally and socially, is now at the forefront of my priorities to player safety and development.”
“Thank you for sharing the PedsConcussion Telemedicine and Virtual Care information in your most recent newsletter. You are doing a terrific job on these newsletters!
Thank you for putting your organization together. You really have a well-written site, and it’s very well organized, and it really has a lot of beneficial information. So I hope people dealing with concussions or CTE can find your site and run through it.”
“The ConcussionAlliance.org site is great, and I found it super useful when I got my concussion. It explains better than the doctors did.”
“This is a PSA for Concussion Alliance . My daughter recently got a concussion skiing. I was frantically looking at websites to learn what to watch out for, how to handle the first 48 hours, etc.
ConcussionAlliance.org was by orders of magnitude the best website out there. It is a fantastic website for parents, teachers or anyone involved in sports. It is full of immediately useful, up to date information on concussions: what to do, what not to do, how to recover, etc. I can’t recommend this website highly enough.
This website changed everything for us. We went from scared and timid to strong, secure, and knowledgeable because of this website. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
In a 2-minute video, intern alums discuss highlights from our internship program and what they have learned about concussions.
John Garay Hernandez (Winter 2022 program), Kira Kunzman (Summer 2023 program), and Melissa Brown (Summer 2021 program) reflect on the program environment and explain how their views of concussions have changed as a result of the program.
“I think that it exceeded my expectations - I’m just so grateful for this experience.
I think I’m really interested in public health now, which I’ve been exploring more [because of this internship]. There’s so much out there, and I feel so much more confident... to go out there and pursue my interests.”
In a 2-minute video, Winter 2023 interns Anna Center and Zoe Cronin talk about how the internship positively affected their thinking about their career paths and sense of self-worth.
“Thank you so much for sharing these resources! I highly value your work and opinion. You help me be there for folks in a more resourced way, for which I can’t thank you enough. I’ll look through what you’ve sent and am glad to share more useful resources with my patient.”
In a 2-minute video, summer 2020 intern Caroline Saksena talks about her experience during her time at Concussion Alliance.
Caroline discusses the online resource that she created during her internship and different parts of the curriculum that she found enlightening.
“I value the Concussion Alliance updates so very much and have passed them on.
My psychologist has made sure all her team are receiving them to help them upskill and stay up to date.”
Michelle Limmer, concussion patient
After she posted about Concussion Alliance on Instagram, we interviewed Michelle Limmer about the challenges she faced getting appropriate care for a concussion and how Concussion Alliance helped her with her concussion recovery.
@michelolol made the Instagram post below, adding, “Thank you so much for your incredible work and the resources you provide! You have changed my life.”
In a 2-minute video, intern alums discuss highlights from our internship program and what they have learned about concussions.
John Garay Hernandez (Winter 2022 program), Kira Kunzman (Summer 2023 program), and Melissa Brown (Summer 2021 program) reflect on the program environment and explain how their views of concussions have changed as a result of the program.
In this 60-second video, Summer 2023 interns Hannah Hartmann, Zoe Cronin, Nora Williamson, and Charley Draheim talk about how the Concussion Alliance internship program affected their future career aspirations. Nora talks about how she will be able to apply the skills she learned in the internship to future research, while Hannah, Zoe, and Charley discuss how the internship highlighted how many career paths are possible within the field of concussion research.
In a 2-minute video, Winter 2023 interns Anna Center and Zoe Cronin talk about how the internship positively affected their thinking about their career paths and sense of self-worth.
In a 45-second video, Summer 2023 interns Anna Center, Charley Draheim, and Alex Rosmarino describe their overall experiences with the Concussion Alliance internship program and the specific aspects of the program that they enjoyed the most.
In a 2-minute video, summer 2020 intern Caroline Saksena talks about her experience during her time at Concussion Alliance.
Caroline discusses the online resource that she created during her internship and different parts of the curriculum that she found enlightening.
!["I feel like [the internship] exceeded my expectations. I wasn’t aware about the guest speakers…they were a great surprise and added so much to the internship. Sometimes I go back through my notes and i’m like ‘this is so cool to learn about.’"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63813f208be08634a208db60/1699205907061-N0OV2NY42A0YD36N8F9N/concussion.alliance.education.internship.jpg)
![“[The internship] exceeded my expectations. I just assumed it’d be working with a partner 24/7, but it was a lot more in-depth and had greater breadth. It was a true cohort of people with passion for concussions that reciprocated each others’ passion](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63813f208be08634a208db60/1699206432924-845FAAJHO697ST5U2WOC/concussion.education.and.advocacy.internship.jpg)
