Extreme sports exist at the edge of human neurological capacity. Athletes in disciplines like wakeboarding, snowboarding, and freestyle action sports depend on the seamless integration of visual tracking, vestibular orientation, and proprioceptive feedback to execute high-speed, off-axis movements in unpredictable environments. When concussion or repetitive subconcussive loading disrupts that sensorimotor architecture, the deficits are rarely obvious at first glance. For clinicians who understand functional neurology, however, the signs are there to find if you know where and how to look.

This course gives clinicians a structured, neurologically grounded lens for evaluating extreme sport athletes following concussion or whiplash-type injury. Taught by Norwegian chiropractor and chiropractic neurologist Haakon Andresen, the course moves from injury biomechanics through sensory integration theory to practical bedside assessment, covering gravito-inertial acceleration vector processing, vestibulo-ocular motor screening, balance error scoring, ocular tilt reaction evaluation, and subjective visual vertical testing. The approach is deliberately low-technology and clinically transferable, designed to expand what clinicians can detect and act on, not just in a fully equipped facility but at any point of care.

This course is well suited for chiropractors, physical therapists, sports medicine clinicians, and other licensed healthcare providers who work with active populations and want a more sophisticated neurological framework for concussion assessment. It is also relevant for clinicians with an existing foundation in functional neurology who want to extend their expertise into the demanding clinical context of extreme and action sports.

Haakon Andresen practices at Kvantumsklinkken in Norway, a clinic specializing in complex neurological assessment and functional neurology cases. His clinical background in both chiropractic and functional neurology, combined with direct experience in the extreme sports world, gives this course a perspective that is both scientifically rigorous and practically grounded.