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Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Just to add to that, we can implement the Ontario piece everywhere else in Canada, but it's important to take into consideration, for example, the particular cultural and other types of factors that are important to each province and territory, because they won't necessarily be t
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Sandhya Mylabathula
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Sandhya Mylabathula
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee I think you make a really fantastic point, because we need to reach the general population. This is something we're really interested in, as well, because it's not just elite athletes who are going to be suffering concussions. It's going to be elite athletes you see suffering con
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Sandhya Mylabathula
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee That's a great question. In the sport context for health care practitioners there's something called the SCAT5 right now, which is the sport concussion assessment tool. There are a bunch of questions and things they can go through with the athletes to get that first impression of
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Sandhya Mylabathula
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee You're right. In this picture, there are people who don't want to report, so we don't see those concussions coming up in the stats. We can kind of guess at that, and typically male athletes are going to be the ones who are not reporting as much. At the same time, there are ot
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Sandhya Mylabathula
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Sandhya Mylabathula
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Exactly. People will feel invincible and feel they can do anything on the ice. However, you're also forgetting that the person's head is their head, and there's a brain inside that you need to protect. Sure, they're wearing all this equipment, but you can still give them a concus
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Sandhya Mylabathula
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee It's here, under “Management”.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Sandhya Mylabathula
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Essentially, the core of that is to say that some education initiatives exist—and as we mentioned, there needs to be more work on these—but the literature shows that not a lot of them include explicit mention of the mental health effects of a concussion. People don't necessarily
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Sandhya Mylabathula
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Sandhya Mylabathula
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee We've also been lucky in the policy work that we've done previously to have had so many opportunities to talk to Canadians who have suffered from concussions, as well as their families, caregivers, health care practitioners and so on, across the country in many different province
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Sandhya Mylabathula
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee —and internationally, as well. So while we haven't experienced concussion personally, we've been able to engage with people who have. There's also the research we're doing.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Sandhya Mylabathula
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee That was Bill C-566.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Sandhya Mylabathula
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee It was in 2014.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Sandhya Mylabathula
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee There is some literature to suggest that full face protection could potentially reduce the severity of injury, but that literature is limited, so we definitely need more in that area. Also, we don't know what that threshold might actually look like—how many Gs of force we need to
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Sandhya Mylabathula