What are the most effective strategies for preventing sport-related concussions in youth? What role do clinicians have in this arena? Dr. Erin Macri took advantage of Prof. Emery’s recent visit to the Netherlands to get caught up on the latest evidence in concussion prevention.

Prof. Emery is a physiotherapist and epidemiologist. She currently holds an appointment in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary, with joint appointments in Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, and is Chair of the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on injury prevention in youth sport and recreation, concussion, and pediatric rehabilitation.

In this episode, Prof. Emery discusses over a decade of work aimed at preventing sport-related concussion in ice hockey in Canada.

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Concussion: prevention, detection and management (online course):

https://www.ucalgary.ca/knes/online-concussion-course

Concussion Awareness Training Tool: https://cattonline.com/

Canadian Concussion Guidelines and other resources, Parachute Canada: