About the Industrial Concussion Institute
The Industrial Concussion Institute helps workplaces recognize a possible head injury, get the worker to the right care, and document what happened.
The Institute
The Industrial Concussion Institute (ICI) provides education and protocol guidance for recognizing and responding to concussion risk in industrial and occupational settings. Our focus is awareness, recognition cues and referral pathways, not diagnosis or clearance.
Our core tool is ICAT, the Industrial Concussion Assessment Tool. It’s a free, open-source head-injury recognition and documentation tool built for the workplace. ICAT is not a diagnostic instrument.
We also offer evidence-informed talks and training for teams that want to put recognition, referral and documentation into practice.
About the mark
Most concussion brands use a brain. The Institute's mark starts on the industrial floor instead, with the hazard diamond, the shape every worker is trained to notice. In flowcharts, the diamond also means a decision point, and a suspected concussion is both a caution and a decision. The steps cut through it show structured escalation: recognize, refer, document, each step rising to the next. They also echo a worker's stepwise return to duty. The open path splits the mark into two equal halves, the first responder and the clinician, meeting at a safe handoff. In one shape, it says what we exist to do: structured escalation through workplace risk.
Founder & Lead Researcher
Sheldon Victorine, MS, ATC, CSCS
Sheldon Victorine is from Hawaii, and his path into human performance started in uniform. He served 7 years in the U.S. Navy as an aircraft firefighter, and that’s where he began his studies in human performance.
He went on to earn his undergraduate degree in kinesiology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, with a specialization in health and exercise science, and then his master’s degree in athletic training, also from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Sheldon Victorine, Founder & Lead Researcher
On the sideline with collegiate athletics
His career has taken him through just about every setting the profession offers. He started in orthopedics, then worked in the traditional setting with high school and collegiate athletes. As an athletic trainer, concussion management, evaluation and head injury in sport were always part of his scope.
He went on to run an in-person private practice specializing in injury rehabilitation and human performance, helping his clients get out of pain, move better and get back to doing what they love.
Coaching a client in private practice
Working with tactical operators in training
From there he transitioned into military and tactical athletic performance. That’s where one thing became impossible to ignore: head injury doesn’t just happen on the field. It happens to those who serve, and he saw it continually with military and tactical populations.
Building on that foundation, Sheldon transitioned into health, safety and ergonomics, where he honed his skills of body mechanics in the workplace. To Sheldon, that work closely resembles human performance, with the same goal of keeping people healthy and capable, just in the occupational setting. The questions are familiar: how people move, where load and fatigue build up, and what keeps them working without getting hurt. He has owned and launched evidence-informed injury-prevention and ergonomics initiatives, including hands-on lifting and body-mechanics training, footwear and equipment programs, risk assessments and hazard corrections. At follow-up, the departments his training targeted showed reductions in recordable and musculoskeletal injuries, along with strong feedback from the people who went through it.
A paper mill, one of the industrial settings where safety and ergonomics work happens
Coaching injury prevention on the warehouse floor
It also showed him that head injury happens in the workplace too, even more so in industrial settings. The tools and norms built for athletes don’t fit the people doing the work, and closing that gap became the next chapter of his career.
He brings a deep toolbox to that work, built over more than two decades of training, study and practice. It started in the Navy, where he trained across conventional bodybuilding, CrossFit, Olympic weightlifting and endurance work. His undergraduate studies took him into high-level sports performance and athletics, and his graduate program shifted the focus to human performance optimization, injury management and rehabilitation. Since then he has gone deep into continuing education and other schools of thought, including Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS), the McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT), the Mulligan Concept, the Functional Movement Screen (FMS), Functional Range Conditioning (FRC), the Fascial Distortion Model (FDM) and breathwork, and he keeps learning and growing his repertoire of skills.
Today he is an NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and has spent 7 years as a certified athletic trainer (ATC). He is well versed in sports nutrition, has completed OSHA 30 training, and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Safety Management at West Virginia University, graduating in August 2027.
In 2025, he served on the Continuing Education Committee of the Oregon Athletic Trainers’ Association, and since 2025 he has served as a Governor-appointed member of the Oregon Board of Athletic Trainers.
He also runs Movement Based Therapy (MBT), where he helps people move better, feel better, and live with purpose.
His why is simple: everyone who clocks in deserves to clock out and go home in one piece.
Outside of work, Sheldon is always learning, and he loves helping spread the word on rehabilitation and optimizing human performance so more people can move without pain and function at their best. When he’s not doing that, you’ll find him traveling and spending time with his wife, their three children, and Sox, the family’s blue heeler shepherd.
Credentials
U.S. Navy veteran, 7 years
Undergraduate degree in kinesiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
MS, athletic training, University of Hawaii at Manoa
MS, Safety Management, West Virginia University (expected August 2027)
ATC, 7 years
NSCA CSCS, since 2018
Over 2 decades in strength and conditioning and human performance
Sports nutrition
Trained in DNS, McKenzie MDT, Mulligan, FMS, FRC, FDM and breathwork
OSHA 30
Continuing Education Committee, Oregon Athletic Trainers’ Association, 2025
Governor-appointed member, Oregon Board of Athletic Trainers, 2025 to present
Founder & Lead Researcher, Industrial Concussion Institute