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 ...

It's cold, it's wet, it's small and claustrophobic, it's isolated, and it's home. I love it. The climate is terrible - last summer notwithstanding. It's ridiculously windy. It could've been the wind that's lifted us toward the wing-melting economic sun. Could've, but isn't. It's the oil. My hometown and my current city is St. John's, the ...

Continuing with my analogy from my last post, "Brain injuries and pro contact sports: Bubble times" , in which I compared the concussion issue in pro sports with the financial crisis, I thought I'd try to complete the comparison without, hopefully, forecasting the end of contact sports, notably the NFL and football in general. In my previous ...

King-Devick Test, a Rapid Sideline Screening Test, Accurately Identifies Unrecognized and Unreported Concussions in Minutes   Concussion detection increases ten-fold compared to previously reported concussion injury rates in rugby league   CHICAGO, February 1, 2013 – A rapid sideline screening test was able to accurately identify athletes who had not shown, or reported, any signs or symptoms of concussion but ...

As much as I can, I read about and watch professional contact sports. I also read, and have read, a lot about the financial crisis; more specifically, what led to it. Naturally, since I was brain injured in 2003, I have become very interested in brain injury. Hence this blog.  I have also taken a ...

This post is not about brain injury, but I wanted to write it anyway.    When Oprah asked Lance Armstrong what he thought the moral of his story was, he began by talking about "the ride"; getting caught up in it all and, of course, the betrayal of lying so fiercely about everything. Interesting. That wasn't ...