Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  It does vary from sport to sport, but a few things come to mind. I think there is a move away from having full contact at the minor levels for collision sports, whether it be football or rugby. Part of the challenge is the traditions of the sport. I remember all the challenges we

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Always more data is useful. It's the question really of the quality of the data. You really have to make sure the numerator and denominator actually are valid to be able to make some judgment off of it. That's sometimes a challenge. What I think I heard you say was that we need

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  I would agree with the comments Dr. Gordon made earlier that rules are in place and virtually every sport has had changes in rules. The automatic red card for an elbow in soccer is one that comes to mind with me. That changed the incidence of concussions in that sport. Every spo

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  It's the same. There's lots of research here. People are doing trials looking at neck strengthening with all kinds of fancy gizmos, and the data is just not there yet. If I may, I will come back to one other comment that was made earlier from the NDP member about baseline testin

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  My perspective is that, yes, it would be of value. That's one of the reasons it's done in virtually all professional sports and we've taken it on for the high-risk, high performance athletes.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  It's a challenge. It's fairly difficult to interpret the results of this neuropsychological testing. Really, I don't think there is a broad enough base of practitioners who have that knowledge at the moment. So really, again, the reason we focused on the high performance athletes

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  A baseline is always helpful and I think can be very valuable. If you have a baseline, it's much easier to interpret injury.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Grassroots.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  The reason that Parachute Canada has not recommended baseline testing is that, done in isolation without appropriate interpretation, it is not helpful and can actually cause challenges. You need to have the whole system in place, and that was simply one part of it. The question i

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  All sports do have concussion protocols in place, but the sports that we've put in these enhanced guidelines for I will read out because there are more than my simple brain can remember. On the Olympic side, winter sports would be alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, ski jumping, s

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Thank you for inviting me to speak before the committee today. I'm sorry I can't be there. I represent the Canadian Olympic Committee, and I'm the chief medical officer or head physician for our Canadian Olympic team. In my role in high performance sport over the last three de