The rehabilitation of functional brain damage not only plays a role in a clinical context, it is also becoming increasingly important in professional sport. One of the reasons for this is that many problems cannot be adequately solved using conventional methods based on the biomechanical perspective.
The following article is my first for the Sportärztezeitung. The aim was to show the potential of functional neurology in professional sport and at the same time explain some of the scientific background.
I hope I have succeeded in this task to some extent. “Functional brain damage” is perhaps a strong description, you can think of it as a kind of miswiring, under which there are many pathologies and diseases. A lot of these incidents occur at a subclinical level. In the article, I show a more extreme case of an athlete with functional neurological disorder, who had to use a wheelchair several times in the meantime.
The article was planned with 8000 characters, but unfortunately I couldn’t keep to this, so many thanks to the Sportärztezeitung for putting it online in full length!
The abridged print edition will be published in the next few weeks.
