Question for docs about concussions.
Nov 7, 2011 | 05:14 PM
#11
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Take this with a grain, I'm not a medical professional, just a lifelong athlete who tends to participate in dangerous sports. Any preventative measure brings with it the false sense of security that you can be more aggressive with your activities, endure more frequent head trauma, or take impact and avoid detrimental after effects to the brain. The only way to effectively lessen brain injury is to lessen the opportunities wherein your brain is subjected to impact, and to lessen the severity of impact (mass of opposing object & speed of head or opposing object).
It means your head is delicate, and you have to treat it as such.
If you continue to subject your head/brain to trauma, you will suffer effects of that trauma. That's it.
Wear a helmet, avoid hitting your head. When you hit your head, even with a helmet on, you will injure your brain. The severity of injury will be dependent upon the force at time of impact.
I wish this wasn't the case.
I wish we could unplug our street brain, plug in a sports brain we could beat on, then switch back when we're done. I really do. Such a difficult limitation faced by athletes. Best protection is knowledge. Study brain injuries and concussions. This will make you a more thoughtful and safe competitor or athlete, you'll last longer in the sport, and your brain stands a better chance at retaining longer-term usability and less degradation.
It means your head is delicate, and you have to treat it as such.
If you continue to subject your head/brain to trauma, you will suffer effects of that trauma. That's it.
Wear a helmet, avoid hitting your head. When you hit your head, even with a helmet on, you will injure your brain. The severity of injury will be dependent upon the force at time of impact.
I wish this wasn't the case.
I wish we could unplug our street brain, plug in a sports brain we could beat on, then switch back when we're done. I really do. Such a difficult limitation faced by athletes. Best protection is knowledge. Study brain injuries and concussions. This will make you a more thoughtful and safe competitor or athlete, you'll last longer in the sport, and your brain stands a better chance at retaining longer-term usability and less degradation.
This assumes people have a Street Brain to begin with
to reality.....
Nov 7, 2011 | 05:32 PM
#12
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Super D is correct.
However, the original post is in reference to work out of my lab. We just submitted a follow up paper to Journal of Neurotrauma. You probably heard one of my collaborators who is prone to media discussions.
The approach is to decrease blood flow out the brain, temporarily causing the brain to swell, so it has less room to "slosh" around the inside of the head during trauma. This is preliminary work, and a novel approach to protecting the brain from itself.
However, the original post is in reference to work out of my lab. We just submitted a follow up paper to Journal of Neurotrauma. You probably heard one of my collaborators who is prone to media discussions.
The approach is to decrease blood flow out the brain, temporarily causing the brain to swell, so it has less room to "slosh" around the inside of the head during trauma. This is preliminary work, and a novel approach to protecting the brain from itself.
Nov 9, 2011 | 11:15 AM
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Thanks for the tips on the helmet guys, I do wear one but there is only so much taking an impact can do. We ski some pretty gnar shit and it only takes a hooked edge to get you body spinning uncontrollably and spinning your head like crazy. Concussions suck and they can take forever to recover from, so I want to prevent them!
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