Maintaining normal body temperature is crucial for short-term post-concussion management, as elevated brain temperature worsens outcomes.

“so the first is thermoregulation and which is basically managing normal body temperature my PhD was actually looking at the effects of temperature on response to brain injury and it's very clear that the hotter your brain gets after an injury the worse your outcome pretty much any type of brain injury stroke traumatic brain injury”

“and we know that a lot of sports happen in heat stressed environments so you're on the field you're hot already or you're out in the sun and if experimentally if you heat that brain up first which happens during exercise and then you have an impact and then that brain stays hot that can that seems to to worsen outcomes”

“and then there's there's a systemic response aspect as well so there are um you know it's you can only really do this in animal studies but um part of the process of of um the the sort of the disease process after traumatic brain injury is a systemic immune response that seems to sort of contribute uh to to to some of the symptoms so you know how much of an inflammatory resp response do you get how much of a fever do you get um that can then you know cause some issues throughout the brain um as well”