Should we let our kids play football? Neuroscientist and retired American football player Dr. Allen A Champagne (PhD) discusses how training paradigms focused on safety-driven performance work as catalysts to reduce sport-related concussions while simultaneously enhancing performance on the field. This novel solution developed at Elite NeuroKinetix combines scientific progress with video analysis and impact biomechanics to enhance coaching practices, which ultimately modify the risk for head injuries in athletes while also allowing for safety to drive the pursuit for better performance. Dr. Allen A Champagne (PhD) is a medical student at Queen’s University (Kingston, ON, Canada), and former football student-athlete and Morehead-Cain scholar from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, USA). His research seeks to integrate neuroimaging, helmet accelerometers, film analysis and motion capture to characterize the effects of head trauma on brain health, while uncovering the relationship between impact biomechanics and sport-specific mechanisms of injury in athletes. Allen hopes that his research on sport-related concussions and head impacts will catalyze the development of novel biomarkers for head injuries, while informing the design of evidence-based behaviour modification interventions that will promote safer playing fields in contact sports. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at
Should we let our kids play football? Neuroscientist and retired American football player Dr. Allen A Champagne (PhD) discusses how training paradigms focused on safety-driven performance work as catalysts to reduce sport-related concussions while simultaneously enhancing performance on the field. This novel solution developed at Elite NeuroKinetix combines scientific progress with video analysis and impact biomechanics to enhance coaching practices, which ultimately modify the risk for head injuries in athletes while also allowing for safety to drive the pursuit for better performance. Dr. Allen A Champagne (PhD) is a medical student at Queen’s University (Kingston, ON, Canada), and former football student-athlete and Morehead-Cain scholar from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, USA). His research seeks to integrate neuroimaging, helmet accelerometers, film analysis and motion capture to characterize the effects of head trauma on brain health, while uncovering the relationship between impact biomechanics and sport-specific mechanisms of injury in athletes. Allen hopes that his research on sport-related concussions and head impacts will catalyze the development of novel biomarkers for head injuries, while informing the design of evidence-based behaviour modification interventions that will promote safer playing fields in contact sports. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at
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