While creating an innovative foundation of concussion medical supplies, we are shaping the healthcare and sporting industries across Canada and on a global scale.  Our flagship product, the Concussion Lab Laser Headlamp, is the latest product design to be integrated in post-concussion assessment and rehabilitation exercise programs.

This simple technology helps patients that are recovering from a concussion retrain their head and neck functions. In particular, our product targets cervical kinaesthesia, oculomotor tracking, vestibular-ocular reflex function and sensorimotor integration systems. In addition to clinical practice, the Concussion Lab Laser Headlamp is a useful research tool in laboratory studies that serves to advance our understanding of concussion injury and recovery.

Loving mother, wife and friend, nationally and internationally respected physiotherapist, Carol Kennedy, passed away after a valiant battle with cancer at the Vancouver General Hospital on March 14, 2023, surrounded by her family. Carol had a special respect and renown in the profession she loved and helped lead. A gifted and disciplined provincial-level swimmer who worked with children with special needs, she chose a career in physiotherapy. Carol graduated from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, with a BSc in Physiotherapy in 1979. She left Queen’s with a keen interest in orthopaedic physiotherapy and a group of lifelong friends and colleagues.

Carol began her career at St. Boniface Hospital and later, the Sports Medicine Centre, in Winnipeg. In 1983, she pointed her MGB towards Vancouver and joined Treloar Physiotherapy, her clinical home, with friends and partners, Deb and Bill Treloar. She embraced life-long continuing professional development, acquiring post-professional credentials and a clinical Master’s degree and was among the first to attain the title of Clinical Specialist from the Canadian Physiotherapy Association. Carol contributed extensively to teaching, professional examinations, writing and clinical research in the field of musculoskeletal physiotherapy. She enthusiastically attended and spoke at national and international gatherings (including the 2010 Winter Olympic Games) and became a trusted expert and mentor in physiotherapy treatment of the cervical spine.

Carol’s great passion was for clinical teaching and mentorship of younger colleagues. She was the lead instructor and developer of a graduate program at UBC (Graduate Certificate in Orthopaedic Musculoskeletal Physical Therapy). In 2022, Carol was awarded the Enid Graham Memorial Lecture Award, the highest honour granted by the Canadian Physiotherapy Association. It is the Department of Physical Therapy’s hope to build a lasting legacy for Carol and establish an endowment in her honour and in support of the Graduate Certificate in Orthopaedic Musculoskeletal Physical Therapy program.