Luca Health
Luca Health
Last year Concussed Media was invited by former Northampton Saints and Exeter Chiefs centre Nick Greenhalgh and his business partner Vasilios Nikolaou to advise their new venture Luca Health.
After a series of meetings, Sam was delighted to accept an advisory role with the young tech start-up company whose stated aim is to “make sport safer for all”.
Click here for Sam’s latest article on Luca Health and why he believes they are a welcome breath of fresh air on concussion’s growing commercial landscape.
Day2 the future
Stop press – Day2Health
Sam is delighted to have recently accepted another advisory position with a second tech start up company, Day2Health, founded by former head of global brand at YouTube, Matt Ross.
Matt was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017, aged just 38, and founded Day2Health last year in a bid to improve care for those suffering from the disease and reduce the number of falls which cost the NHS millions of pounds a year.
Sam will lead on the communications side for Day2Health as well assisting with content creation, fundraising and introductions to his unparalleled network of neurological experts and care providers.
Matt said: “Few people have done more to raise awareness of neurological conditions in the UK and around the world than Sam and as one of my most trusted friends, I can think of no-one better to help take Day2Health to a wider audience.”
One step forward…another step back
Rugby’s ‘one step forward and another step back’ brain-injury two-step was illustrated again this weekend.
While both England’s splendid home win against France and Wales’ less splendid capitulation to Italy passed few concussion talking points, the final game of the weekend at Murrayfield, Ireland against Scotland, changed that.
Your Brain Health launches global Concussion Officer campaign
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Fergal O’Brien goes the extra yard for Brain Health
Concussed Media was delighted to accept the invitation from Ahead of the Game event partners Your Brain Health (YBH) to join them for a day at the races (well at race training at least) at the world-famous Fergal O’Brien’s yard just before Christmas.
Sam Peters joined YBH team members David Bartlett and Simon Shepard for a fascinating morning testing the yard staffs neurocognitive performance as part of a drive to understand and improve the brain health of all those employed at the state-of-the-art Ravenswell Farm facility.
Curry selection leaves RFU in a pickle
It’s 17 years since I sat in the press box at the Parc des Princes in Paris and watched England captain Lewis Moody knocked out twice in the same match but allowed to play on.
Afterwards, those of us who questioned the decision were swatted away with the usual platitudes that ‘player welfare was a priority’ and the players were ‘receiving the best medical care available’.
The fact that even back then in 2007, 16 years after Michael Watson had almost died in the ring fighting Chris Eubank, Moody would have been counted out if he was a boxer seemed lost on most of us. The incident drew next to no public comment in the media.
It’s 11 years since I sat in the press box in the Olympic Stadium, Sydney, and watched Wallaby flanker George Smith suffer a brain injury in an accidental clash of heads with British & Irish Lions hooker Richard Hibbard, before being allowed to play on, having apparently passed the newly implemented five-minute Pitch Side Concussion Assessment.