Hosted by Mandi, a Nurse Practitioner with 20+ years in healthcare (nearly all in neurology), this show started with a plan to cover all things related to brain health & wellness, but morphed into being mostly concussion & traumatic brain injury (TBI) related topics after the host's own TBI experience.
You'll hear strategies for recovery from both the practitioner and patients' points of view. Whether you're a healthcare provider, person with a brain condition, or family/caregiver, you'll find something useful in these episodes.
Learn more about the host at www.brainwellnesssolutions.com
Mandi Swanson is a Board Certified Nurse Practitioner with experience in healthcare since 1999. She is a four-time Top Nurse Practitioner award winner, received the Faculty Excellence award in her previous role of nursing professor, has been on the review committee for several nursing textbooks, was the recipient of the Women of Armor Personal Growth award for 2023, was listed in Marquis Who’s Who in 2024, and was the recipient of the Elinor D. Hands Award from the MN Brain Injury Alliance in 2025. In 2022, Mandi began her own podcast called Brain Wellness – the Podcast, initially covering a multitude of topics related to brain health and wellness and transitioning toward mostly brain injury topics since 2024, and has been a guest on multiple other podcasts. She has also presented at numerous local, regional, and state conferences. Additionally, she is an invited speaker for both national and global conferences in 2026.In 2023, Mandi was in a car accident and experienced a traumatic brain injury. She has merged knowledge gained from personal experience with her healthcare education to provide a unique brand of concussion care in her current practice as a brain injury Nurse Practitioner at Minneapolis Clinic of Neurology. She is an Ambassador for the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center, an elected Board Member for the MN Brain Injury Alliance, and Certified Brain Injury Specialist through the Brain Injury Association of America.Find more about Brain Wellness at: https://brainwellnesssolutions.com/ Support the show with Buy me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brainwellnessnp
16 Oct 2026
208. FDA cleared HRV test for dysautonomia with Dr. Andrew Holman
Dr. Holman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Inmedix. He is also the founding rheumatologist at Pacific Rheumatology Associates Inc PS, Director of Research at Pacific Rheumatology Research Inc., a former President of the Northwest Rheumatism Society (2005) and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington. He has 25 year clinical and 19 year rheumatology research career experience with 16 lead author published papers, 25 lead author published abstracts. For Inmedix, he has designed, completed and published 15 clinical studies, including FDA negotiations, involving nearly 1500 patients. Dr. Holman founded Inmedix, and after 3 prospective, clinical trials, eventually sold an international patent portfolio to Boehringer-Ingelheim for $10,000,000 in 2007. In 2015, Dr. Holman converted Inmedix LLC into Inmedix Inc to bring next-generation heart rate variability (HRV) to clinicians on a reimbursed, scalable and actionable cloud platform. Dr. Holman's research highlights include reporting and eventually licensing use of dopamine agonists as a treatment of fibromyalgia, exploring the impact of hypermobility syndromes, evaluating established and innovative autonomic nervous system (ANS) analysis with 5-min heart rate variability (HRV) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases, and broadening understanding of pain in patients with PC3 (positional cervical cord compression) using dynamic flexion-extension, cervical magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI).
Find Dr. Holman at: https://inmedix.com/ (https://inmedix.com/)
Email: inmedix@150bond.com (mailto:inmedix@150bond.com)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjholman/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjholman/)
Find more about Brain Wellness at: https://brainwellnesssolutions.com/ (https://brainwellnesssolutions.com/)
Support the show with Buy me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brainwellnessnp (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brainwellnessnp)
9 Oct 2026
207. Craniosacral therapy after TBI with Dori Brown, PT
Dori Brown, PT, has been practicing for almost 30 years and owns Seeds of Change in Minneapolis. She works with people recovering from head injury, TBI, and dysautonomia. She specializes in problem solving and seeing the patterns other practitioners miss. In the clinic she offers craniosacral therapy, functional medicine, and nutrition. Outside the clinic she does nervous system coaching, public speaking, and leads workshops and retreats, all centered on nervous system education. Her belief is simple: the more you understand your nervous system, the better positioned you are for change.
Find Dori at: https://doribrown.me/ (https://doribrown.me/)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seedsofchangemn/ (https://www.instagram.com/seedsofchangemn/)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seedsofchangemn (https://www.facebook.com/seedsofchangemn)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dori-brown-5299a82b5/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dori-brown-5299a82b5/)
https://www.linkedin.com/company/seeds-of-change-holistic-healing/ (https://www.linkedin.com/company/seeds-of-change-holistic-healing/)
Find more about Brain Wellness at: https://brainwellnesssolutions.com/ (https://brainwellnesssolutions.com/)
Support the show with Buy me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brainwellnessnp (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/brainwellnessnp)
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