Episode 2 of Concussion Talk Podcast is available here! My first guest on my new podcast is a good friend of mine from university, Dr. Kristian Goulet! Dr. Goulet is a pediatrician who did a Sports Medicine Fellowship at Harvard. He runs the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO - in Ottawa) Concussion Clinic and is ...

I'm excited about this past week and looking forward to what may be! It took my a long time to record, but once I stopped being so self-critical I finally finished and have put out my first ever podcast! This coming week I will interview a friend from university, Dr. Kristian Goulet, a pediatrician, focusing on ...

Click on PODCAST in the main menu. It's on Soundcloud as Concussion Talk Podcast and on Youtube on my Youtube channel, Concussion Talk Podcast! On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/concussion-talk-podcast/id1042686652?mt=2 My first intro podcast is only about 10 minutes, introducing the podcast and me. I hope to interview doctors, physiotherapists, who work in the field of concussion and brain injury and ...

Welcome Ashley Kinsella, a physiotherapist at ProActive Physiotherapy in Newfoundland and Labrador! Ashley has written a very informative and helpful post about concussions, the importance of treating them properly and what happens in your brain when you sustain a concussion. Please read this valuable post and learn about concussions, baseline testing and the importance of ...

I welcome anybody who would like to write about their experience with brain injury/concussion to go to Concussion Talk's Facebook page and write a comment or post to let me know you'd like to write an article for me to post! In the meantime, two physiotherapists (one of whom is also a Pilates instructor) have agreed ...

As I have written previously, I have found Pilates to be of great help to me and my long, ongoing recovery from my severe brain injury in 2003. Pilates teaches effective and efficient movement of your body. It's not one formula for everybody. The point of Pilates is to concentrate on a movement and to ...

The article below is by George Visger, a former defensive lineman  for the San Francisco 49ers in 1980 and their 1981 Super Bowl winning season. He details his extensive traumatic brain injury history below. Along with his academic and consulting work since football, he has a website, The Visger Group, to bring awareness to concussions and ...

I am happy to say that the first time I tried this it was very successful! Thank you Ryan, Jiri, Tim, and Christine! I want to keep doing this, so please, if you're interested in writing about your brain injury/concussion, please contact me (Twitter, Facebook, email). Of course, Christine, Tim, Jiri, and Ryan are more ...

Thank you for sharing your story Ryan Seguin! Ryan is a student at the University of Ottawa and had two concussions while playing midget AAA hockey. I will let him tell you the rest. He has written a helpful article about how he dealt  with his concussion symptoms at university. by Ryan Seguin As a competitive hockey player, ...

Jiri is a firefighter who had his latest concussion after the car he was driving was in a T bone collision. The car that T boned him was actually swerving to avoid someone making an unsafe turn. Jiri didn't hit his head in the accident, and actually got out of his car, letting his Emergency ...