Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  I think a lot more research needs to be done to really understand some of the risks in different sports at different ages. One thing we have seen in some of the hockey work our group has done over the last number of years is that we actually do see a spike in the risk of concussi

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  That's another really good question. We often look at prevention in terms of rules of the game, equipment and then intrinsic risk factors. These are factors that change risks that are internal to that person. Some of the intrinsic risk factors would be related to their awareness

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

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  I think there's an opportunity for it. From a Canadian standpoint, we have a lot of people who do a lot of leading-edge work and who all work together across the country very collaboratively. It's very unique internationally. At the last consensus, people would come up to the mik

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  That's an interesting question. Not that I think of off the top of my head, but—

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Yes.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  That's a great question. There is an option to have a certificate, but there's a nominal administrative fee. Everything else about the course is free, but there's a nominal fee for the certification of completion, and there is an evaluation component they have to complete so tha

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  We did one media release and it's gone, apparently, international. I've had lots of people contact me from overseas saying they've heard about it, so it's really spread like wildfire. We have the registration portal on our home page at the University of Calgary's faculty of kines

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Yes, and we have international collaborators contributing, too.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  I think that's a great question. Unfortunately, I don't think there's a really simple answer to it, which makes it a challenging area. It's very much a clinical diagnosis based on a trauma, followed by the onset of symptoms and clinical findings. Typically there are no findings

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  There's no one test, but there's—

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  From a research standpoint, our research group has done a lot of work from a hockey standpoint looking at prevention—targeted prevention. We use an injury prevention model, first looking at how common concussions are in each sport and what the risk factors are. We partner with a

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  There has been great interest in the area of concussion. We did see a lot of increase in reporting after 2011-12, when we saw Sidney Crosby have a concussion. There has also been a lot more interest in what we can do to prevent them, because I don't want my players to be out, and

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  That's a great question. Our goal with this massive open online course on concussion, the MOOC, is to make it appeal to a broad audience. Everyone is welcome. We also want different stakeholders because that facilitates some great discussion. Our goal is to take the research evid

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Thanks so much for the invitation to present to the group today on behalf of the integrated concussion research program at the University of Calgary. Concussion is one of the most common injuries suffered by children, adolescents and young adults, with an estimated 250,000 conc