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RESEARCH

Since 2019, the Dalhousie Tigers Football team has been conducting research with Dalhousie University with novel helmet technology, and innovative MRI brain scans. Led by ex-Tiger athlete, club president and coach, Dr. Casey Jones, Dalhousie Football has a cutting research program and emphasis on player health. 

 

Tiger football players wear helmets outfitted with Riddell InSite helmet technology, which track impacts to the head in each player during practices and games. These helmets allow for improved monitoring of player impacts, and serve as an important research tool alongside world-class brain researchers at Dalhousie. 

 

Through four seasons of this program, the team has tracked 9599 impacts and conducted 57 MRI scans. Dr. Jones and his colleagues have presented this research at several national-level conferences, in addition to publishing preliminary findings in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine

This work will continue into the 2024 season and beyond, to improve player safety, and to fuel discovery with brain health.

 

Important supervisors of this work include:

  • Dr. Christina Atkinson - Sports Medicine Physician (Beijing 2022 Canadian Women’s Hockey Physician, Paris 2024 Canoe/Kayak physician) 

  • Dr. Alon Friedman - Professor and Dennis Chair in Epilepsy Research, Department of Medical Neuroscience

  • Dr. David B Clarke - Professor, Division of Neurosurgery, Dalhousie University and NS Health

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