Brain Evaluation
Solutions & Testing
Brain Evaluation
Solutions & Testing
Brain Evaluation
Brain Evaluation
BEST Australia
Samantha Prost has a BA degree in Human Movement Science, is a Weight Management consultant (Australia), a Functional Movement Screening practitioner and a member of the International Brain Injury Association.
Sam has over ten years of experience working in healthcare, across a broad range of fields including sports rehabilitation, obesity management and designing and implementing professional sports/fitness and rehabilitation programmes throughout South Africa and Australia. She has a background in playing elite sport where she has represented South Africa in hockey throughout her junior career and has played in the professional hockey league in Belgium and Australia. Through her exposure to the high impact sport of hockey, notorious for head injury, she has witnessed many players suffer concussions and undergo recovery.
Sam’s passion for improvement in the understanding and treatment of concussive head injury has been ignited by her own diagnosis of a traumatic brain injury. Sam credits her personal journey throughout the year-long recovery for providing her insight into the impact that brain injuries have beyond the clinical, but also on the social, working and sporting life of the individual. Sam’s experiences have motivated her to embrace a shift in career to concussion management, where she offers extensive neurocognitive baseline and concurrent follow up testing programmes.
Sam is currently Key accounts and Business manager of BEST (Brain Evaluation Solutions and Testing) Australia. She firmly believes that the programme offered by BEST Australia, driven by top neuropsychologists and medical doctors, has the potential to facilitate favourable outcomes following concussion events, including best-practice return to sport and activity recommendations, and reducing the risk of further injury prior to adequate recovery. In addition to the clear benefits of the BEST Australia programme for elite level athletes, Sam advocates wide adoption of the programme at all levels.
Karley began her career working in private practice as a Chiropractor in Perth, WA after completing a double degree in Chiropractic at Murdoch University, WA. She then went on to complete post-graduate study in Paediatrics and was awarded a Diplomate in Chiropractic Paediatrics. Karley has over 15 years of experience treating children, adults and athletes, and a further five years teaching neurodevelopmental programs for children.
Karley’s passion for neurodevelopment lead her to move into a career in neuromodulation and non-invasive brain- based therapies and for the past seven years she has worked as a Senior Clinician at the Perth Brain Centre. She has pursued further study in Quantitative Electroencephalography (QEEG) Brain-Mapping (board-certified by The International QEEG Certification Board) and has spent time in the USA to complete her Fellowship in Trans-Cranial Direct Current Stimulation, endorsed by the City College of New York and University of Florida. Karley has also completed a Certificate in Applied Neuroscience and Brain Health through the Neuroscience Academy, led by renowned Neuroscientist Dr Sarah McKay.
After witnessing the effects of concussion and post-concussion syndrome on many patients over her years as a health professional, Karley developed an interest in the assessment and management of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). She is an advocate for neurocognitive baseline testing as an important element of a comprehensive protocol to measure function and recovery from concussion, particularly in that of young adults. As a parent of children who have played a wide variety of sport, she understands how critical it is to have a measure of their neurocognitive baseline each year, should a concussion occur.
She is currently Clinical and operations manager. Karley is a member of the International Brain Injury Association and the Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association and regularly attends Professional Development including those directed by the Neuroscience Academy, the Neuro Orthopaedic Institute and Sports Medicine Australia.