Adjusting is not quitting. I finished my Pilates teacher training in Toronto last Sunday - thank you Body Harmonics! I'm feeling great and have confidence that I will be a good and effective teacher. It's due to the outstanding instruction I've gotten from Sarah Stoker at Pony Locale here in St. John's and the amazing teacher training from ...

Welcome to the newly redesigned Concussion Talk website! Please check out the Twitter and Facebook icons on the right side of the screen to go to my Twitter and Facebook pages! Thank you Steve and John for the great work! Now that the aesthetics are taken care of, it’s time for me to get back to posting. I ...

This is less a post and than it is a request. When I write it's about some thought I have that is related to my brain injury, or at least relatable to a brain injury. What I'm asking now is if people can send me questions they have about brain injury and recovery. I am ...

In recent years, my "recovery" (more on why that word is in quotes later) seems to have gained steam and I've noticed more improvement, even though the accident that caused my brain injury occurred over ten years ago. I'm sure there are many physiological and neurological reasons why improvements would take this long, then again, ...

Eleven years ago my balance and mobility were better than good. My health was better than good. Ten years and seven months ago, I was a long way away from feeling anything remotely close to good about my balance and my mobility, or about my health at all. That was a drastic turn, and it ...

I've completed the first part of the Pilates teacher training. It was anatomy focused, so you knew what moves where, why it moves and how it (whether muscle or bone) helps to move or stabilize another area. It was really interesting and we did some exercises to demonstrate to ourselves what the muscles did and ...

I got this title from a song by a great local band: The Pathological Lovers I will be going to Toronto soon to do two parts of a five part Pilates teacher training course. At the first course, I will learn how movement is produced at major joints, how to accurately recruit muscle, and about joint mobility ...

I cannot urge you enough to watch this movie/documentary. The Crash Reel is about Kevin Pearce,  an aspiring U.S. Olympic snowboarder who crashed while training, 49 days before the Vancouver Winter Olympics. The film wasn't available in Canada until very recently and I watched it for the first time last night. I'm so glad I ...

I expected to feel kind of down around now, but oddly and fortunately enough, I've been in a good mood  for a while, even though, ostensibly, nothing has really changed. My good spirits are based on possibilities. Usually, when those possibilities fall apart, is when I start feeling a bit down. I'm more hopeful this ...

I will start this post with a nod to Movember and its goals. You can donate to my Movember moustache here and help support research and promote awareness of important men's health issues, like prostate cancer and mental illness.   I've had a beard since last Movember, but it took me a while to grow it and, likewise, ...