Christopher Nowinski to attend ‘Brain Injury and Sport’ conference in Dublin

rude awakening

This may not need its own forum but I thought it may open a conversation re - "Wrestling and Brain Injury"

ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY Ireland, in association with EBIS (European Brain Injury Society), will host a ‘Brain Injury and Sport’ conference in Dublin this December.

The launch of the event took place at the Aviva Stadium on Lansdowne Road this afternoon, with Michael Darragh Macauley and Rory O’Carroll in attendance.

The conference itself will take place at the Aviva on Friday the 13th of December, with a panel of expert speakers to discuss the growing concern surrounding concussion and head injury in sport. Newstalk broadcasters George Hook and Ger Gilroy will chair the meeting, with several renowned speakers set to feature.

Chris Nowinski, Dr. Barry O’Driscoll, Mark McGovern, Dessie Farrell, Brian Kerr and Professor John Ryan are just a handful of the names who will deliver speeches at the conference, with the aim of increasing awareness and education of concussion and presenting best practice concussion management to a wide audience of coaches, clinicians, players, and anyone involved in an elite or non-elite sporting environment.

For more information and to register see www.braininjuryandsport.ie.

Source: http://thescore.thejournal.ie/brain-injury-and-sport-conference-1134893-Oct2013/

jaykhunter

I was interested before "book before Oct 31st and it only costs €150"

gerTheGreat

If anyone is interested, Nowinski was interviewed on Newstalk back in April. The interview is still up on Soundcloud.

ShagNastii

I'm sure there's no need to point out Nowinski is a trillion miles away from his WWE career at this stage.

The event will be very interesting but hold nothing of interest to wrestling fans. It'll be all rugby,boxing and American football.

Diabhal Beag

I wouldn't say it's of no interest to wrestling fans. I'm a bit fascinated that concussion research is quickly becoming a massive focus of mainstream sports and as wrestling fans we see some of the most messed up people lose their minds.

Even in GAA there's a big emphasis on head trauma in football which wasn't there even 5 years ago.

I wouldn't be spending €150 on it though.

jaykhunter

Well it's like a comic con panel...but instead of celebrities, you have doctors and scientists giving presentations and panel discussion about their research. I'm shocked there's even this much interest in this thread. To even consider going to a statistics and analysis conference!

Diabhal Beag

I guess a lot of wrestling fans aren't sporty people either so there'd be less interest than I'd probably imagine in regards to sport.

rovert

So he won't answer my Scott Steiner question , Diabhal Beag?