NH+Head+injury+Article+Summary

This video focuses on problems with concussions in high school football. Players tend to not tell their coaches when they think they have had a concussion because they want to keep playing so that they don’t let down their team or appear to be weak. Some players don’t even know enough about concussions to even say that they may have had one. Kort Breckenridge, 19, is used as an example. He suffered from a concussion while playing one night but didn’t tell anyone. About a month later, he made a normal tackle, no significant head impact at all, but he began to be disoriented and his coach pulled him out of the game. A few minutes later, while sitting on the sidelines, he lost consciousness. He was life lighted to the hospital where he was diagnosed with second impact syndrome where cerebral blood flow increases, arteries swell past capacity, and pressure builds inside the brain, often leading to coma and death. They had to remove part of his skull to relieve pressure. He was in a medically induced coma for 3 weeks out of his 3-month hospital say. Now he stays and works on his family’s farm. He is slower and walks with a limp. He tires easily. He says that if he could change anything, he would still play football just more safely, and if he felt even the slightest buzz he would pull himself out.

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