Perry’s Prospects: Tough opponent for hockey player
Watch the inspiring story of young hockey player Dane as he recovers from a hemorrhagic stroke and learns how to love his favourite sport from the sidelines.
Safety Report: Young Athletes and Sports Concussions
Taking a hard hit to the head is causing concussions in more young athletes. Virginia schools are preparing parents and young athletes to deal with the impacts of an increasing number of sports concussions caused by a hard hit to the head in competitive play.
A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discovered a 62 percent increase in sports-related traumatic brain injury over a decade for athletes under the age of 19. Because of that increase, Virginia law now requires parents and athletes to take part in concussion education in public schools. Additionally, a bill is making its way through Richmond to require youth sports leagues to prepare policies and train parents and athletes in identifying concussions.
Brain Injury Patient Urges Kids to Wear Helmets
In this bitter cold, you want to make sure your children are well protected if they’re going skating or tobogganing. But you may want to consider another layer of protection: helmets.
Last year, the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario saw 1,270 children with head injuries, 41 of those were related to tobogganing.
20-year-old Tyler Lisacek knows too well the devastating effect a brain injury can have on someone’s life. At 13-years-old, he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle home from swimming. Tyler had just taken his helmet off because he was hot.
“I had been hit by an SUV going 98 km an hour,” Lisacek was later told. “My head went into the hood of the car […]
Rewiring Trevor Greene’s brain
The former soldier survived an axe attack in Afghanistan, now he’s defying the limits of science in his recovery.
It has been 25 years since Trevor Greene gave up competitive rowing for other pursuits: journalism, travel, soldiering, fatherhood, marriage. But today, at age 48, sitting in a wheelchair in his Nanaimo, B.C., home, the forcibly retired army captain is rowing as hard as he’s trained for any event in his life.
Today he rows only in his mind, where he also visualizes walking. The frustrations are enormous for a man once thought of as invincible. He used to be part of the men’s eight crew at King’s College in Halifax, and at the elite club level, pulling until his muscles […]