Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Some of the most telling signs of an old concussion are the ones you would never connect to your head, and they can surface years after the injury. Bad handwriting, trouble hearing in a noisy room, sudden difficulty focusing, or dizziness that comes and goes can all trace back to a brain injury that a standard exam never linked. This episode is a recognition guide: how to tell whether you or someone you love may be living with post-concussive symptoms that keep getting explained away as something else.
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đź“– UnCURABLE: From Hopeless Diagnosis to Defying All Odds
For everyone medicine has let down → UnCurableBook.com
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Dr. Aaron Hartman maps the full range of post-concussive symptoms across the somatic, cognitive, and emotional domains, then goes deeper into the subtle ones that get missed: vestibular and visual dysfunction, autonomic dysregulation, hormonal shifts, sleep disruption, and mood changes that get mislabeled as anxiety, PMS, or simply aging. He explains why these are neurological rather than psychological, and why the symptoms that matter most are often the ones only a specialist thinks to look for. It is built for anyone whose unexplained symptoms have never been connected back to a head injury in their past.
This is Part 3 of 6. Part 2 covers what actually happens inside the brain, and Part 4 covers how one brain injury ends up affecting the entire body.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 — Why some people don’t get better for years
00:32 — How to tell if it might be post-concussive syndrome
01:07 — The standard checklist: somatic, cognitive, emotional
02:19 — The cognitive domain: brain fog and slow processing
03:03 — The emotional domain: these aren’t psychological symptoms
03:30 — The subtle signs a standard exam misses
03:38 — Vestibular dysfunction: dizziness and eye movement
04:38 — Visual dysfunction and the neuro-ophthalmologist
06:37 — Hormonal disruption and the pituitary
07:46 — Autonomic dysregulation, POTS, and losing focus
08:41 — Sleep disruption: a crisis within a crisis
09:32 — When it gets mislabeled as hormones or PMS
10:12 — The frontal lobe and emotional dysregulation
11:17 — A personal story: a childhood injury, decades later
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ABOUT AARON HARTMAN, MD
Aaron Hartman, MD is a triple-board-certified physician, bestselling author of UnCURABLE: From Hopeless Diagnosis to Defying All Odds, and founder of Richmond Integrative & Functional Medicine. Dr. Hartman is known as the champion of the medically abandoned—helping people once labeled “uncurable” find REAL health and hope through the body’s natural abilities to heal and repair.
AaronHartmanMD.com
Some of the most telling signs of an old concussion are the ones you would never connect to your head, and they can surface years after the injury. Bad handwriting, trouble hearing in a noisy room, sudden difficulty focusing, or dizziness that comes and goes can all trace back to a brain injury that a standard exam never linked. This episode is a recognition guide: how to tell whether you or someone you love may be living with post-concussive symptoms that keep getting explained away as something else.
---
đź“– UnCURABLE: From Hopeless Diagnosis to Defying All Odds
For everyone medicine has let down → UnCurableBook.com
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Dr. Aaron Hartman maps the full range of post-concussive symptoms across the somatic, cognitive, and emotional domains, then goes deeper into the subtle ones that get missed: vestibular and visual dysfunction, autonomic dysregulation, hormonal shifts, sleep disruption, and mood changes that get mislabeled as anxiety, PMS, or simply aging. He explains why these are neurological rather than psychological, and why the symptoms that matter most are often the ones only a specialist thinks to look for. It is built for anyone whose unexplained symptoms have never been connected back to a head injury in their past.
This is Part 3 of 6. Part 2 covers what actually happens inside the brain, and Part 4 covers how one brain injury ends up affecting the entire body.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 — Why some people don’t get better for years
00:32 — How to tell if it might be post-concussive syndrome
01:07 — The standard checklist: somatic, cognitive, emotional
02:19 — The cognitive domain: brain fog and slow processing
03:03 — The emotional domain: these aren’t psychological symptoms
03:30 — The subtle signs a standard exam misses
03:38 — Vestibular dysfunction: dizziness and eye movement
04:38 — Visual dysfunction and the neuro-ophthalmologist
06:37 — Hormonal disruption and the pituitary
07:46 — Autonomic dysregulation, POTS, and losing focus
08:41 — Sleep disruption: a crisis within a crisis
09:32 — When it gets mislabeled as hormones or PMS
10:12 — The frontal lobe and emotional dysregulation
11:17 — A personal story: a childhood injury, decades later
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ABOUT AARON HARTMAN, MD
Aaron Hartman, MD is a triple-board-certified physician, bestselling author of UnCURABLE: From Hopeless Diagnosis to Defying All Odds, and founder of Richmond Integrative & Functional Medicine. Dr. Hartman is known as the champion of the medically abandoned—helping people once labeled “uncurable” find REAL health and hope through the body’s natural abilities to heal and repair.
AaronHartmanMD.com
