The landscape of concussion rehabilitation is shifting. As the clinical and scientific communities converge on the need for higher-quality evidence, oculomotor rehabilitation sits at the center of that conversation. With more than 40 percent of the brain's networks involved in vision, and visual disturbances reported in up to 90 percent of concussion cases, the ability to systematically assess and rehabilitate oculomotor function is no longer a specialized niche but a core competency for any clinician treating post-concussion patients. This course introduces clinicians to the current evidence base, the research gaps, and the emerging tools that are redefining what evidence-informed concussion care looks like in practice.

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This course translates three interrelated original studies directly into clinical frameworks. Clinicians gain a detailed understanding of what a systematic review and meta-analysis of oculomotor rehabilitation reveals about effect sizes and outcomes across convergence, vergence facility, reading rate, and visual attention. They then engage with a longitudinal cohort study drawn from a large general-population dataset, one that challenges common assumptions about recovery timelines and sex-specific symptom patterns. Finally, the course introduces the architecture and interim findings of a randomized controlled trial evaluating virtual reality-based oculomotor rehabilitation, equipping clinicians with the conceptual tools to evaluate and integrate technology-assisted approaches into their own clinical and research thinking.

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This course is designed for licensed healthcare clinicians, including chiropractic neurologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and sports medicine physicians, who are actively managing post-concussion cases and want to ground their clinical reasoning in peer-reviewed science. It is particularly valuable for clinicians who are navigating cases with prolonged or atypical recovery and for those interested in contributing to or understanding the direction of functional neurology research.

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Melissa Biscardi is a chiropractic neurologist and PhD researcher whose work sits at the intersection of clinical functional neurology and concussion science. Her research is embedded within the Toronto Concussion Study, one of the largest longitudinal acute concussion studies in existence, and her randomized controlled trial represents a first-of-its-kind investigation of virtual reality oculomotor rehabilitation in this population. Her clinical background, research rigor, and grounding in functional neurology make her uniquely positioned to bridge the research-practice gap for clinicians in the field.