An amazing physiotherapist, athletic therapist, PhD candidate and researcher, educator, podcast guest, and soon to be host! Katie Mitchell started Thrive NeuroSport with the "mission to educate and empower individuals to thrive on beyond recovery and meet the demands of sport, activity, and daily life." Katie's passion for her clients, her research, and her role as ...
Keep Your Head Up
Allie Harrison and Felicia Corrado formed Keep Your Head Up "to improve traumatic brain injury (TBI) recovery, including concussion, through a community-based platform providing education, empowerment, and social connection." They've created an encouraging, educational, and empowering organization! Read their posts on Instagram and Facebook! They've started a podcast series on Concussion Talk Podcast as well, "TBI ...
Phoenix Concussion Recovery
The exciting, engaging, and informative Phoenix Concussion Recovery was co-founded by Lauren Ziaks PT, DPT, ATC and Melinda Roalstad, MS, PAC. On this site they provide valuable, "evidence-based, research and clinically supported information and has been created for concussion education and identification as well as recommendations for early management." Lauren is the host of Phoenix ...
Attitude since brain injury, and a thank you!
I wrote and posted this article on Concussion Talk's Patreon page last Friday, and here it is again. I think I made a mistake by pairing my conference post with a post about my attitude. However, I'm happy with what I wrote and I like the way I was able to frame the explanation of ...
Concussions and Athletic Therapy
Ashley Hiscock, owner of Premier Athletic Therapy and Sports Medicine, and Concussion Talk Podcast sponsor, writes about athletic therapy for June, National Athletic Therapy Month. Recently, the Canadian Olympic Committee and the Canadian Paralympic Committee adopted new guidelines with regard to sport-related concussions. These guidelines have been created in an effort to reduce the impact that ...
Speaking: Optimism
Originally, when I thought I'd like to do public speaking, I was thinking about brain injury, my story, and my recovery. In 2016 I began to speak locally, and once in Halifax at Dalhousie University, and it was good, proceeding at a modest pace, but proceeding nonetheless. In the spring of 2017 I was thinking ...
But you don’t LOOK sick
This is a post by Mal from Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A. It can also be found at https://injuryjourney.blogspot.com/2019/01/but-you-dont-look-sick.html?m=1 Mal contacted me on Instagram and sent me this post after I posted last week about sharing your story of how brain injury has effected you. Thank you Mal! You don't necessarily need to write a ...
Talk…or Write. Ask.
Complex situations, be it brain injury, including concussion, or cancer, take people working together to properly address. That doesn't mean every problem will be solved, or every situation will be foreseen, but when people talk to each other, work together, understand that everybody's circumstance is unique, people feel part of something, they can feel that ...
Episode 35 – Yoga and Brain Injury (“Yoga Brain” writer – @_yogabrain on Instagram)
On Episode 35 of Concussion Talk Podcast writer @_yogabrain on Instagram, and I talk about brain injury, including concussion, and her blog post, "Yoga Brain". -A talks about her concussions, how they've effected her, how she got into yoga, and how she feels its helping. We also talk about time, and patience. Concussion Talk Podcast is ...
Yoga Brain
This article was written by -A. Follow her on Instagram @_yogabrain I didn’t wake up one day and decide I was going to start practicing yoga because it would be beneficial for my brain injury. When I moved to the big city of Toronto to start university, I bought a yoga mat because yoga seemed ...