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Mind Beyond the MissionRevisiting traumatic brain injury with Dr. Lyn Turkstra and Veteran and CFL player Ryan CareyThis special compilation episode of Mind Beyond the Mission brings together the most valuable insights from two conversations with Dr. Lyn Turkstra and Veteran and CFL player Ryan Carey, who each joined Brian and Laryssa on Mind Beyond the Mission previously to share their perspectives as a clinician specializing in traumatic brain injury and a person with lived experience of TBI.Dr. Turkstra is Assistant Dean and Professor of Speech-Language Pathology in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences at McMaster University. A speech-language pathologist by training, she has over 30 years of experience working with individuals with traumatic brain...2025-02-2657 minMind Beyond the MissionTraumatic brain injury with Veteran & former CFL player Ryan CareyA traumatic brain injury (TBI) is defined as damage to the brain from applied force. It can come from hitting one’s head, or even from a strike to the body that jolts the head. Symptoms can range from being mild enough that they go unnoticed and untreated, to severe enough that an individual can be in a coma for a prolonged period of time.Military TBI has recently come to the forefront as one of the invisible wounds of war, caused by several aspects of combat including shock waves, breaching, exposure to explosive blasts, falls and th...2023-06-1940 min