Although a concussion (traumatic brain injury-TBI) is caused by a blow to your head, or sudden deceleration in speed (like a whip lash), what if the symptoms and failure of your brain to regenerate or heal has nothing to do with your brain? In health care, we often have a problem looking outside of our own areas of expertise or training until it smacks us in the face. The other day, while working at our Sports Concussion Research Center, I was speaking with someone who had e

Our world continues to change at a pace we have never witnessed. Experts say that by the time your child trains for a profession, that career may have been replaced by robots, artificial intelligence or at the least require a new set of skills and training by the time they graduate. Being open to new learning and training opportunities is important, but not the most valuable skill your child must learn. On a farm, when the weather is right and it’s time to harvest the hay,

About a year ago, after being inspired by the passing of the Bill for Rowan’s Law in Ontario, we started on a journey in establishing the Sport Concussion Research Center at our 4 clinics. The modest goal was to collect data and evaluate factors that could help us better explain the condition. We funded it privately through our own resources, from the sale of my parenting book and from a generous donation from Dr. Robert Thatcher who donated his extensive EEG software to ou