The NFL season starts on September 5 and you can be sure that soon all of the talk about brain injuries will focus on football; how do we make the game safer for the athletes, but still keep it the game that fans love (and will pay to watch)? Then there'll be talk about the ...

On this day 10 years ago (July 31, 2003), I was in Victoria, BC, living in a great, one-bedroom apartment on McKenzie Avenue (on the corner of McKenzie and Shelbourne), not far from, and an easy walk to, the University of Victoria - which I was attending to do my Master's in Public Administration. I ...

It is what it is is what it is. Frankly, life since my injury has been a lot like the sentence above; convoluted, cumbersome, and, in the end, it is what it is, part of life. It's convoluted because every part of life, from mundane tasks to playing sports, are made that much more difficult, and ...

'Not the face!' That's probably what I was thinking right before my head slammed into that tree in Victoria, BC in 2003, but I really don't know. The other day I watched 'Like Water', a documentary about UFC Champion Anderson Silva as he prepares to defend his title against Chael Sonnen  in 2010. During and after which, ...

In an earlier post, 'Spring's on the way. Get moving', I wrote about how great Pilates and moving around was for me. It was with this inclination, that I began Tai Chi exercises on Friday - Tai Chi Qigong Shibashi; simple and relaxing. I became aware of this site through my discussion with Heidi at ...

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 hockey and, after taking time away from school and after his rage boiled over one day ...

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 time on them. In fact, I'll just let share the links ...

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 benefits of exercise for people who've had a concussion, and I thought I'd ...

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 - my previous post, Finding yourself after a brain injury. First step: Recon. Brain injuries ...

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 the benefit of the general public to explain or define a lasting injury about which little ...