Concussion - personal experience, plus research
| November 15, 2022 02:42PM |
Let's start with Dr. Daniel Amen. From an on-line bio:
"Dr. Amen is a physician, psychiatrist, teacher, and multiple New York Times best-selling author. He is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on applying brain imaging science to clinical psychiatric practice. He is a board certified child and adult psychiatrist and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association... Amen Clinics have the world's largest database of functional brain scans relating, totaling nearly 90,000 scans on patients from 93 countries.
Dr. Amen is the lead researcher on the world's largest brain imaging/brain rehabilitation study on professional football players, which not only demonstrated significant brain damage in a high percentage of retired players, but also the possibility for rehabilitation in many with the principles that underlie his work."
In my own experience as an educator I learned a great deal from Dr. Amen's published work on ADHD and brain injury. Dr. Amen and others have produced research showing that concussion may not be attributable to an immediate direct blow, that initial symptoms of concussion may not show immediaately, and can last as long as three months when they do. Damage from concussion, unrelated to initial symptoms, can be lifelong. c.f. Junior Saeu.
From my own experience, I have been concussed several times. (That may explain some on my posts
) Once I was knoched out for over ten seconds (I was told later and don't remember
by a log that fell sixteen feet. I got up, shook it off, and eventually completed the heavy, physical work I was doing.
The following day I was scheduled to row the river with guide clients - heavy-duty, physically demanding work, conducted while being a tour guide and recantuer in addition to helping clients with casting and fishing strategies.
I did all of it - and still have a crystal-clear picture in my memory bank of a small one-minute part of it, although the rest of that time period, from waking up immediately after the knockout until two days after is a complete blank.
Draw your own conclusions, herd brothers, as to how and what I've described here could be affecting Stafford right now. I know he's a warrior and would want to be out there ASAP. I also know that a person's own assessment post-concussion - you don't even know you've been concussed - isn't the best. I had no business being out on the river the day after I got concussed, but I didn't know that.
I'll treasure that Super Bowl victory and will never forget what Stafford and Kupp put together on that last drive. He's a great quarterback - he had a chance to play up to his potential in a few games last year. And if we don't see him again for the rest of the year, or even if he and Kelly decide it's time to watch those four beautiful little girls grow up without exposing daddy to the risk of further life-damaging injury, I'll understand and be grateful for what was.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/15/2022 03:20PM by mtramfan.
"Dr. Amen is a physician, psychiatrist, teacher, and multiple New York Times best-selling author. He is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on applying brain imaging science to clinical psychiatric practice. He is a board certified child and adult psychiatrist and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association... Amen Clinics have the world's largest database of functional brain scans relating, totaling nearly 90,000 scans on patients from 93 countries.
Dr. Amen is the lead researcher on the world's largest brain imaging/brain rehabilitation study on professional football players, which not only demonstrated significant brain damage in a high percentage of retired players, but also the possibility for rehabilitation in many with the principles that underlie his work."
In my own experience as an educator I learned a great deal from Dr. Amen's published work on ADHD and brain injury. Dr. Amen and others have produced research showing that concussion may not be attributable to an immediate direct blow, that initial symptoms of concussion may not show immediaately, and can last as long as three months when they do. Damage from concussion, unrelated to initial symptoms, can be lifelong. c.f. Junior Saeu.
From my own experience, I have been concussed several times. (That may explain some on my posts
) Once I was knoched out for over ten seconds (I was told later and don't remember by a log that fell sixteen feet. I got up, shook it off, and eventually completed the heavy, physical work I was doing.The following day I was scheduled to row the river with guide clients - heavy-duty, physically demanding work, conducted while being a tour guide and recantuer in addition to helping clients with casting and fishing strategies.
I did all of it - and still have a crystal-clear picture in my memory bank of a small one-minute part of it, although the rest of that time period, from waking up immediately after the knockout until two days after is a complete blank.
Draw your own conclusions, herd brothers, as to how and what I've described here could be affecting Stafford right now. I know he's a warrior and would want to be out there ASAP. I also know that a person's own assessment post-concussion - you don't even know you've been concussed - isn't the best. I had no business being out on the river the day after I got concussed, but I didn't know that.
I'll treasure that Super Bowl victory and will never forget what Stafford and Kupp put together on that last drive. He's a great quarterback - he had a chance to play up to his potential in a few games last year. And if we don't see him again for the rest of the year, or even if he and Kelly decide it's time to watch those four beautiful little girls grow up without exposing daddy to the risk of further life-damaging injury, I'll understand and be grateful for what was.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/15/2022 03:20PM by mtramfan.
