It's been a year since Advancing Neck Rehabilitation Conference 2025

On May 15-16, 2025, we brought together leading clinicians and researchers at Harpa in Reykjavík, Iceland, for the Advancing Neck Rehabilitation Conference.

Thomas S. Bottiglieri, DO at Advancing Neck Rehabilitation 2025

Two days to talk honestly about where cervical spine care is, where it's stuck, and where it needs to go.A year on, that conference still looks like a turning point — for the field and for us.Chad Cook (Duke University) chaired. Julia Treleaven opened with a keynote on the missing link in neck rehabilitation: sensorimotor control. John Leddy (University at Buffalo) made the case for the neck's role in concussion recovery. Joining them were Cameron Marshall, Marlon Wong, Carly Mattson, Thomas Bottiglieri, Jonathan Chung, Cameron Bearder, Heather Linden, Natasha Wilch, and Jeffrey Scholten — clinicians and researchers spanning sports medicine, neurology, manual therapy, and the UFC Performance Institute.Across the two days, the same themes kept coming up. Cervical assessment is inconsistent from clinic to clinic. Objective tools that actually scale are still rare. And concussion recovery — especially return-to-sport — keeps getting decided without the neck data it needs.

What's new at NeckCare since 2025

A year is a long time when you're building.Our clinical network across the U.S. and Canada has grown by hundreds of new clinicians, all using the NeckCare System™ in their day-to-day assessment and rehab work. The product line has moved forward in three big ways over the past twelve months:

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  A redesigned assessment module, with 3D head visualization and built-in report interpretation

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  In-clinic rehabilitation, bringing structured, data-driven protocols chairside

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  Remote rehabilitation devices, extending objective measurement into patients' homesEvery one of those updates traces back to what the room in Reykjavík told us they needed: better measurement, real continuity of care, and tools that scale past the walls of a single clinic.

2nd day of Advancing Neck Rehabilitation 2025

Looking ahead for NeckCare

The challenges we named in Iceland haven't gone away. Cervical rehab is still under-resourced and under-measured — still treated as an afterthought in concussion care, return-to-sport decisions, and chronic neck pain. But the field is moving, and the conversation we started at Harpa is part of why.Thank you to everyone who joined us in Reykjavík, and to the clinicians, patients, and partners who have shaped our work this past year. We'll keep expanding the network, keep pushing the in-clinic and at-home platforms forward, and keep working alongside the people doing the hardest thinking in this space.The next chapter is already underway.