TAMPA – Team Canada is chasing yet another gold medal at the World Junior Hockey Championship, but Émile Thérien has some serious concerns about the future of Canada’s national game.
Thérien is the former president of the Canada Safety Council and he was one of the leaders in...
Is it possible to experience elation putting in your own ponytail or firmly shaking hands with a stranger?
Just look at Maddy Evans' beaming face for the answer. Maddy, 16, completed a study at the University of Minnesota and Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare, using a...
It took more than 24 hours of ambulance rides, sedations, scans and fear before Jay and Serena Kustra had answers for what went suddenly wrong with their two-year-old son Jackson.
"We were on edge the whole time until we knew what was going on," Serena said. "It was quite...
Emergency room visits by children with concussions and other traumatic brain injuries from sports or other recreational activities have jumped over the last decade, a new government report shows. Doctors are divided whether it means more kids are getting hurt or parents are being more careful...
Dr. Karen Latimer on the riskiest sports for kids and symptoms to look for....
The Centers for Disease Control estimates between 1.4 and 3.6 million sports and recreation-related concussions occur each year with the majority happening in High School.
Dr. Colby Hansen, from University Healthcare, stopped by to explain these injuries.
Recently, House Bill 204...
The introduction of mandatory testing to help reduce the damage of head injuries in young hockey players has done nothing to snuff out the controversy over concussions in sport.
Medical experts remain skeptical, if not dismissive, of decisions by some hockey associations to implement...
Childhood acquired brain injury (ABI) has a devastating and life-long impact on the child and their whole family.
Bones can mend and scars can heal but a brain injury stays with you for life and has an affect on everything you think, feel and do.
An ABI is an injury to the brain...
The saying goes, "People come into your life and go quickly. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on your heart and we are never the same."
While I understood that statement, in losing my Aunt Marlene this past month, it seemed to take on new meaning for me.
Our...
Six-year-old Hayden Crevier lived for almost a year with a hole in his head.
After falling out of a tree, a piece of wood stabbed through his skull and stuck in his brain. He narrowly escaped paralysis, but couldn't speak.
The piece of wood -- a 1-by-1-inch section -- embedded...
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