Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  It has been my honour. Thank you.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Thank you.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  That's right.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Yes, if you don't have insurance, you're in big trouble. That's a huge issue in the United States, and I don't know how to solve that problem here. Let's go back to the original question about billing codes and rehabilitation. I think you have identified a major issue here. If y

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Yes, that's right, and building his practice....

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Right. Just to give you an example, in the U.S. we used to call our concussion education sessions “concussion clinics”, because there were no physical clinics that treated concussions. There are now well over a thousand. Every major hospital has a concussion clinic where you send

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Yes. That's something you need.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Thank you.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  No, I feel like I've said a lot on most of the things.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  That's a good point. All right, where do I take this? The interesting thing is that a lot of stuff we're talking about today has been in the medical literature forever. We've always known that a hit to the head can cause your brain to malfunction. It can cause structural injury.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Right.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Well, we're all still animals at heart, but I think we've had leadership in some sports that has started to emphasize the skills rather than the violence. In America, the major league lacrosse community, US Lacrosse, has actually made all hits to the head penalties. It's really c

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  There are many ways you can get ALS, and we haven't figured out most of them, but we know that NFL players, for example, have a greater risk of developing ALS than the regular population. What appears to be happening in some of them, according to Dr. Ann McKee, is that they're ha

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  One thing that hurts us in our concussion and CTE prevention work is the professionalization of youth sports. You tell me that your daughter is not forced but asked to do 12 months a year of gymnastics because she's going to lose skills over the summer.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Who cares if she has a drop-off of skills over the summer? No child's body can take 12 months of any activity over and over again. That is a bit of an educational issue. In the U.S., we're sort of fighting a capitalism issue. There's a group of coaches who have found that if the