Reader comments: New MRI tests show concussion perils

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Anonymous | 1:35 p.m. March 18, 2008
The human mind, a very private world, that neither doctors(MD's),psychologists nor scientists can or will ever really understand. My first serious concussion - as a junior in high school. I played a whole first half of a football game in a stupor and then at half time was taken to the hospital. Soon, I lost all feeling below the neck. The next day most neurological connectors were back (miracle) and I could walk. Week later I was back on the football field. A year later as a senior, similar experience. Knocked out, concussion, total short term memory loss,then off to the hospital. Privately thereafter, for a good while, I thought I was going CRAZY!and later a recoginition that "certain memory skills" in math and analysis, that I'd keenly had, were mimimized or compromised. In part, the concussions for years, shaped my private identity - I knew something had happened to me, but there was no way to explain it, NO ONE to talk to. A lesson. Parents! If you have a youth that suffers a head bump, take care, monitor, watch,LISTEN,potentially keep the youth away from and off the sport field, and far from dark side crazy.
help! | 5:17 p.m. March 18, 2008
This article talked about the problems head injuries cause but nothing about how to fix these problems. Any ideas on how to get the head back to normal or how to deal with the headaches?
chris | 9:13 p.m. March 19, 2008
I experienced a head injury 10 years ago, it was more extensive than a normal concussion though. I am researching the long term effects this could have caused. Please contact me for further information. Thank You
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