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HeadCheck is a complete concussion identification and management tool developed for trained professionals in sport.
"He's already had eight concussions. He can't have any more."
That's what a father told Randy O'Shaughnessy about his son, a 14-year-old football player Randy coached in Saskatchewan, and one of the best athletes he'd seen.
Randy took it to heart and made the call to bench him longer than anyone wanted. The mom understood. The dad, and a lot of the football world around them, didn't, and the pressure to put the kid back on the field never let up.
So Randy did something coaches rarely had the tools to do in the early 90s: he went to the university library and started digging through what little concussion research existed, just to build the case for protecting his own player.
That decision still shapes how he thinks about athlete care today, as President of the Prairie Football Conference.
Listen to the full episode of HEADCHECK Health Talks to hear Randy's story 🎧 https://na3.hubs.ly/y0xG7N0
06/23/2026
You don't have to feel it for it to be serious.
A subconcussion is a brain injury without the typical signs of a concussion. No headache, no dizziness, no obvious red flag. But real metabolic and physiological changes are still happening in the brain.
A single subconcussive hit may look harmless on its own, but the effects are cumulative. Repeated subconcussive impacts over time can be just as damaging as a full concussion, especially for younger athletes.
So after any blow to the head or upper body, the question isn't just "do they have a concussion?" It's "could this be a subconcussion too?"
Learn more on how subconcussions are diagnosed and treated 👇 https://na3.hubs.ly/y0wtZY0
New research suggests concussion risk in women’s sports may not be where many people expect it.
In a new study (Whelan et http://al., 2026) analyzing six years of data from Pac-12 athletes, researchers found that women’s volleyball had the highest concussion rate of any sport studied, even higher than soccer, basketball, and water polo. The findings challenge the idea that concussion risk is driven solely by how much contact a sport involves and highlight the need for sport-specific prevention strategies.
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