KNOCKING OUT CONCUSSIONS
A concussion isn’t just a bump on the head; it’s a brain injury. And concussions from sports and recreation-related activities are a major health problem in Canada, particularly among youth. Through their Alberta Program in Youth Sport and Recreational Injury Prevention, researchers Carolyn Emery & Brent Hagel hope to reduce youth sports injuries by 20 per cent by 2020.
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Join this webinar to hear Carolyn and Brent share new findings from their studies on sports-related concussions – vital information for parents, athletes, sports enthusiasts and health advocates alike. Discover how and where concussions occur in sport, how targeted interventions can prevent concussions from happening in the first place and new treatments to help concussion patients recover faster.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Carolyn Emery is the associate dean of research and an associate professor for the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Kinesiology. She also holds a joint appointment as a professor in the Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine. She is a member of Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health and O’Brien Institute for Public Health. Her research fields include sport injury epidemiology, sport injury prevention, and rehabilitation outcome measurements in sport medicine.
Brent Hagel is an associate professor in the Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine, and an adjunct associate professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology. He is also a member of Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute and O’Brien Institute for Public Health. His current research interests include evaluation of the effects of protective equipment use and injury prevention policies, with particular interest in child and adolescent sport and recreational injury prevention.
DATE AND TIME
Knocking out concussions in sport
Recorded on October 20, 2016
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