Brain Injuries • CTE • Real Stories
Turning unseen brain injuries into undeniable action
CTEFIGHT.com exists to raise awareness about untreated head injuries, support people living with them, and fund research and healing.
This is advocacy with a pulse: music, storytelling, science, and straight talk about what gets ignored.
Read the Cognitive Overview (PDF). A plain-language concept brief on cognitive continuity — why “unseen” injuries derail daily life, and how we design support that actually works.
Read the Overview
Support the Fight
Help launch the CTEFIGHT charity
CTE FIGHT is becoming a registered charity — and registration comes first, before a single program can run. Filing the charity application costs $1,000 to start and just under $11,000 all in. That process was supposed to begin months ago. A hospital stay and everything that came after it put it on hold.
Support through Buy Me a Coffee goes directly toward those launch costs — getting the CTEFIGHT charity legally registered so it can fund treatment access, healing programs, retreats, and research.
Straight talk: until the registration is complete, this is support for the launch — not a tax-deductible charitable donation, and nobody here will pretend otherwise. A promissory tax receipt will be issued for purchases and donations made during this setup phase once the charity structure is complete. Once the charity is registered, proceeds from our merch lines — including F*ck The What — go directly toward sustaining it.
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Where This Comes From
An injured worker, left behind
CTE FIGHT was born from my own journey. I’m an injured Alberta worker who has been left behind by WCB — a workplace injury, seizure activity, and years of fighting a system that stopped seeing a person.
The full record of that fight — the documents, the correspondence, the proposals, the accountability work — lives on its own site, where it belongs. This page is for the fight ahead: awareness, healing, and building what comes next.
For my journey with WCB Alberta, visit WCBD.ca
About CTE Fight
Born from experience. Built for everyone still fighting.
CTE FIGHT started with one person’s long, messy journey through repeated head injuries, misdiagnosis, and “you’re fine” shrugs from a system that didn’t want to look too closely.
Instead of staying quiet, we’re turning that story into a platform: a place where people affected by concussions, suspected CTE, and lingering head trauma can find information, community, and hope.
This site is the home base for our charity work, our partnerships, our clothing and merch lines, and the conversations we’re opening up through TheRabbitHole.ca and other media projects.
CTE & Head Injuries
What we mean when we say “CTE”
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a brain condition associated with repeated hits to the head. It has been found in athletes, veterans, survivors of violence, and many others whose lives involved repeated impact or trauma.
Symptoms can include memory problems, impulsivity, mood swings, depression, anxiety, and changes in personality. The hardest part? It’s often invisible, doubted, or dismissed until lives are already unraveling.
We’re here to connect the dots: between symptoms and causes, between patients and practitioners, between “something’s wrong” and “this is what’s happening.”
Resources we’re building
- Vital statistics snapshot on head injuries and CTE.
- Evidence map of treatments and what’s helping people.
- Plans for retreats and healing-centre programs.
Future Support Tools
Wearable support & real-world signal capture
CTE FIGHT is built on awareness and action — but it’s also a platform for building practical tools that make life safer and more manageable for people living with brain injuries, post-concussion symptoms, and neurological instability.
One long-term goal is a wearable support device designed specifically for neurological health and day-to-day resilience — not fitness optimization.
Wearables already track heart rate, pulse, sleep, and stress indicators. We want to explore how shifts in these signals may correlate with neurological events, cognitive overload, confusion, or shutdown — especially when paired with real-world context.
Capturing this kind of data can help answer hard questions without forcing the person experiencing symptoms to become their own full-time note-taker: what triggered the episode, what the body was doing at the time, how long recovery took, and what patterns emerge over weeks and months.
The goal is not surveillance or diagnosis. The goal is support, continuity, and understanding — creating a clearer picture that can be shared (with consent) with caregivers, clinicians, and support teams.
Just as important is access during the moment. The vision includes a system that allows a user to speak, ask for help, ground themselves, and reach support when cognition is compromised. A calm, voice-accessible interface — potentially supported by AI — could act like a steady co-pilot when memory, language, or executive function temporarily fail.
Technology Pilot
Independent Technology & Accessibility Pilot
We’re documenting an independent, time-bound pilot examining how technology, documentation, and lived experience intersect for individuals living with brain trauma — with a focus on accessibility, continuity, and real-world usability.
This work is ongoing and adaptive. It’s a direction we’re building toward — grounded in lived experience, community input, and collaboration with researchers and technologists who care about real outcomes.
Merch That Funds The Fight
F*ck The What & CTE Fight clothing
Our clothing lines are more than fabric and ink. They’re conversation starters, fundraisers, and a way to wear your support out loud.
Every purchase helps kickstart and sustain the CTEFIGHT charity. A promissory tax receipt will be issued for all purchases once the charity registration is finalized.
Sample product groups
- F*ck The What – Hats (black & white versions)
- F*ck The What – T-shirts & hoodies
- CTE Fight & 369 logo series
The online store is being rebuilt. Final pricing and a full list of items will appear here when it opens — until then, preorders can be arranged through the contact section below.
Partners & Supporters
We don’t fight this alone.
Clinics, practitioners, businesses, and humans who stepped up or treated us fairly along the way deserve space on this page. This section highlights the people and organizations standing with CTE FIGHT.
Examples of partner categories
- Healthcare & alternative healing clinics
- Brands sponsoring events, retreats, or merch
- Research partners and brain-bank collaborators
- Community allies who supported the journey
Logos and names will be added here as relationships are formalized.
Blog & Book
Stories from the edge of “you’re fine.”
This section will house blog posts and excerpts from the book in progress – deeper dives into the lived reality of brain injuries, the healthcare maze, and building CTE FIGHT in real time.
Planned content
- Blog posts on head injuries, mental health, and advocacy.
- Draft chapters and excerpts from the book.
- Journey updates on retreats, merch, and partnerships.
Media & Conversations
The Rabbit Hole & live events
CTE FIGHT is connected to TheRabbitHole.ca, a podcast and media hub where we talk openly about brain injuries, healing, and everything that comes with them.
- The Rabbit Hole – long-form conversations and interviews.
- Live streams and events (DJ sets, Q&A, special features).
- Recorded talks and educational videos as they’re produced.
Links and embedded players can be added here once streaming and hosting details are finalized.
Take Action
Supporting the fight against invisible injuries
While we finalize the charity registration and payment systems, support can be offered through merch preorders, direct sponsorship, and collaboration.
- Helping fund treatment access and healing programs.
- Supporting the development of retreats and centres.
- Backing research and awareness campaigns.
A promissory tax receipt will be issued for purchases and donations made during this setup phase once the charity structure is complete.
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