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Daniel Raffi

Daniel Raffi

Sports Neurologist and Traumatic Brain Injury Specialist; Founder of Contact Medical; Host of The Better Brain Podcast

Jul 2, 2026

EricaHOST
4:41
And you said it's like an epidemic of nurses getting basically beat up at the hospital, right?
4:48
Yeah, certainly, you know, I don't know the statistics, but it seems like it to me, again, certainly my perspective might be biased considering, you know, I'm a traumatic brain injury and spine specialist, right? But from my perspective, it certainly seems like it, or at least nurses and healthcare workers relative to other occupations are suffering traumatic brain injuries and other similar injuries in the workplace relative to other occupations.
5:14
And let me just say this, you know, it was surprising for you because you came across my TikTok, but it's also like equally surprising for me, right? Like I went to, I spent two years studying concussions and traumatic brain injury and how to manage them and the demographics of people that suffer them and so on and so forth.
5:32
I went to the top institutions in the entire world and something that really didn't hit home for me there was was this exact topic, right? Which is this traumatic brain injuries and concussions happening, also the healthcare workers in the workplace as part of their occupation, right? Like I think where we focused on in training and where a lot of people's minds focus on in the general public, and it has a lot to do with the media attention and the subsequent finances and money that comes along with it is in sports, right? So in football, it's a really big trending topic.
6:06
In soccer, it's becoming a UFC, MMA.
6:09
These are trending topics in those specific occupations.
6:12
But really, I realized that once I got into private practice and I was on the ground treating not only elite athletes and professional athletes, but then I also had a bunch of nurses coming through the door.

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EricaHOST
42:20
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