Hundreds of thousands of Canadians get concussions every year, and a growing body of research suggests that many take much longer to recover than previously thought or don’t ever fully recover at all.
Patients with symptoms such as headache and cognitive difficulties that continue for months or years after a concussion may be at significantly increased risk of subsequent depression.
Sean Fitz-Gerald, former 2015 Sportswriter of the Year per Sports Media Canada, wrote up a retrospective piece on Scott Stevens for The Athletic. It is a terrible hatchet job that cannot be ignored. This is a response to the awful post.
One year ago, Danny Filippidis disappeared during a ski trip in New York and resurfaced days later in California with little to no memory of how he got there. According to medical experts and the reporter who interviewed him, Filippidis may never regain his memories to piece together exactly what happened.