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Abstract

STUDYING CONCUSSIONS WITH A CONCUSSIONany researchers feel an emotional connection to their work, but for Renata Bastos Gottgtroy this takes on a whole new meaning. As a PhD student at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, Renata both studies concussions and is afflicted by one.On February 6, 2016, I watched Renata get checked into the boards during an ice hockey game as a member of the York University Lions Women's Hockey Team. As I sat in the stands, suffering from my own concussion, I couldn't help but feel the hit in my bones. Before I knew what was happening, I was running down to the ice. I knew that something was wrong.