In The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, he notes that there are 3 rules of epidemics (in this case, the galvanizing of support for concussion awareness/understanding): 1) the Law of the Few, 2) the Stickiness Factor, 3) the Power of Context. Concussions and all brain injury are issues that need to become epidemics to gain any real ...
Crosby has patience. What about the sports media?
It was really exciting seeing Crosby score his first (and second) goal and play so well the entire night! One thing that many in the sports media overlook, however, is the importance of fatigue with brain injury. I don't know how much fatigue has effected Crosby, but I would caution them that even though he can ...
Lucic hit on Miller: Penalize or Punish?
I was at the game in Boston on Saturday, November 12, 2011, so I saw the play in which Milan Lucic crushed goalie Ryan Miller. Immediately there was a quick groan in the crowd around me. My friends know the seriousness of major strikes to the head better than most people, so they could see ...
Stopconcussions.com Event!
Stopconcussions.com - New Initiatives Announced to Reduce the Incidences and Treat Concussive Injuries in Sport MEDIA INVITE                     MEDIA INVITE                        MEDIA INVITE Toronto, On November 14, 2011:  Former NHL player Keith Primeau & stopconcussions.com are hosting a media event to announce new initiatives in the battle to reduce the incidences and accurately treat dangerous concussions in sport. The following initiatives ...
Symptoms & Perspective
Symptoms with which I am familiar are primarily dizziness and fatigue. The biggest symptoms I deal with are my balance/movement and double vision, but apart from immediate visions problems most people have after a brain injury, I think balance /movement and double vision lasting over 8 years is more specific to serious brain injuries, so ...
Observations
I watch Jersey Shore. I am neither proud nor ashamed of that. I just watch it. I doubt I'd watch it the same way if I hadn't done a biology degree. Everything from examining ecosystems and watching vigilance behaviour to detailing the lives of fruit flies was based on objective observation. It is with that ...
What can sport teach society about brain injury?
After all of the attention paid to concussions over the past year, it seems that sports, notably football and hockey at the youth and pro levels, are the some of the few aspects of society that are beginning to comprehend that a concussion is a brain injury. Sports leagues across North America are focusing more ...
Post-concussion symptoms, see concussion symptoms
I was brain injured in 2003 while cycling in Victoria, BC. Concussions are also known as mild traumatic brain injuries and while what I sustained was a coma-inducing severe traumatic brain injury, from what I hear, and what makes sense to me, there seem to be many overlapping symptoms. I read about how Marc Savard has ...
Progressively still
Frontline recently re-broadcast a documentary about concussions that it had done in April. The story revolved around a football team from a private high school in Arkansas. The Shiloh Christian program was used primarily as a backdrop for the central theme: the intensity, pressure and the resulting disregard of health issues - notably concussions - ...
NFL concussion lawsuit
In this lawsuit, it is alleged that the NFL covered up evidence that concussions can cause long term damage. Check out a paragraph from this Slate article: "This is smart pleading, made even more compelling by the complaint's citation of one of the most astonishing statements, surely, that's ever been made by anyone associated with a professional sport. ...