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A Story “like that of so many others.”

Benjamin Gray , 18, was a defenceman for the J.L. Ilsley Judges – a high school hockey team from West Pennant, Nova Scotia (about 20 km from Halifax). By grade 12, he had sustained three concussions from playing high school ...
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Want to know

While I didn’t intend to write a post about brain injury in sport, I was inspired to write it based on some events in the NHL playoffs.  Since it’s not my point to dissect the danger of the two hits, I won’t spend much t...
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Spring’s on the way. Get moving

I wrote this post on Sunday, but since I didn’t post it right away, I was going to wait until the weekend or so. Then I saw that Chris Nowinski tweeted this, study by researchers at the University of Buffalo about the benefit...
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Impromptu Expectations

The thing about expectations is that they presume a certain course of events. In July 2003, I assumed that I would start my co-op job in Ottawa in September and I based my expectations for the coming years on that presumption ...
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Finding yourself after a brain injury. First step: Recon

As has been said countless times in countless articles about brain injury, “every brain injury is different”. I don’t know and don’t care to know how many times I’ve heard or read it. That phrase is used primarily for...
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This City…where people live

It’s cold, it’s wet, it’s small and claustrophobic, it’s isolated, and it’s home. I love it. The climate is terrible – last summer notwithstanding. It’s ridiculously windy. It could’ve been the wind that’s lif...
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Bubble Times – Is it going to pop?

Continuing with my analogy from my last post, “Brain injuries and pro contact sports: Bubble times” , in which I compared the concussion issue in pro sports with the financial crisis, I thought I’d try to complete the co...
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A Valuable Sideline Concussion Test – Press Release

King-Devick Test, a Rapid Sideline Screening Test, Accurately Identifies Unrecognized and Unreported Concussions in Minutes   Concussion detection increases ten-fold compared to previously reported concussion injury rates in r...
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