{"id":1041,"date":"2020-09-27T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T18:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2020-09-27T11:49:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T18:49:20","slug":"headcheck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/09\/27\/headcheck\/","title":{"rendered":"HeadCheck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kerry Costello, the co-founder of HeadCheck is a coach, athlete herself and MBA graduate from the UBC Sauder\u2019s Robert H. Lee Graduate School. After witnessing many career changing injuries, she recognized a need for better brain health management to help ensure athletes do not worsen existing injuries. \u00a0Costello joined forces with kinesiology PhD candidate Harrison Brown, who specializes in human motor behaviour and concussion research, to develop an innovative mobile app and headband that instantly measures concussion risk. Coaches can use it on the bench and in the change room to determine whether a player should return to the game or seek medical treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HeadCheck was as a startup initiated through the entrepreneurship@UBC program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check it out. &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-la6qYsfJyk&amp;feature=emb_logo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-la6qYsfJyk&amp;feature=emb_logo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerry Costello, the co-founder of HeadCheck is a coach, athlete herself and MBA graduate from the UBC Sauder\u2019s Robert H. Lee Graduate School. After witnessing&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/09\/27\/headcheck\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HeadCheck<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32739,"featured_media":1042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pitch-pool","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}