How many concussions did you have?

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by ckissick

and a lot of soccer, even in England where they rough you up pretty good.

Just for a little levity.....

[Pazuzu]

3 times out cold. Once playing some sort of recess game, head to head, only I went down.
Second, who knows what happened, the neighbor found me out on in their yard, I must have gone off my bike and hit the sidewalk. Lost about 24 hours from that one.
Third, sitting on a tennis net farting around, fell backwards, straight down to the concrete. Woke up to my two friends freaking out, they didn't bother, you know, calling for help or anything...


That kinda stuff doesn't happen to kids these days, sitting on the couch playing video games and getting fat is much safer than being outside doing stuff...

[Racerbvd]

A LOT, I'm Sure!! Between decades of BMX, skating, surfing, and the other "fun stuff" guys do

[MARISOL78sc]

too many to remember unfortunately. Played Football throughout College.

[911boost]

One, playing hockey on a frozen lake. Split my chin open too, was knocked out cold. I’m

[Tobra]

Just one, car hit me on my bicycle.

[jamesnmlaw]

Seven. No, six. Yeah, that's right, eight.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by jamesnmlaw

Seven. No, six. Yeah, that's right, eight.

None of mine were "official".... but the way we played without helmets (tackled) and the hits we took would sit yer azz on the bench in the NFL these daze ....

[JavaBrewer]

Two major ones that I know of. I was ~ 12 and executed a perfect endo on my bicycle and woke up a while later getting the blood washed off by my Dad. About 20 years ago I passed out in a store and my head hit the concrete floor. Halo skull fracture and was in ICU for a couple days. Wife said the sound of my head hitting was sickening.

[Charles Freeborn]

Originally Posted by JavaBrewer

Two major ones that I know of. I was ~ 12 and executed a perfect endo on my bicycle and woke up a while later getting the blood washed off by my Dad. About 20 years ago I passed out in a store and my head hit the concrete floor. Halo skull fracture and was in ICU for a couple days. Wife said the sound of my head hitting was sickening.

First or maybe second year of riding a bike I got spooked by a car horn and went head first into a mailbox. Woke up on the couch of the mailbox owner. No harm no foul. Bu
t were those different times....


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[RSBob]

Just one three years ago when on vacation in S Africa. Memorable ride in the Ambulance through Durban careening through the streets. E.R., tests, M.D. x-rays all cost..... drum roll please.... $45 U.S. thought I was hallucinating again.

[mattdavis11]

Just one that I recall. I pulled myself out of the game at half, told the coach no more. 12-13 years of age. I caught hell, until the back up QB got pummeled, over and over.

I'm no Tom Brady.

[onewhippedpuppy]

I'd say 3-5, and I didn't really play organized sports. My parents wouldn't let me play school football either. This thread is a great illustration of why people freaking out about their kids playing football is stupid, very few of the concussions listed here actually are related to football.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

I'd say 3-5, and I didn't really play organized sports. My parents wouldn't let me play school football either. This thread is a great illustration of why people freaking out about their kids playing football is stupid, very few of the concussions listed here actually are related to football.

That's why I started this thread....some folks want to make it illegal for kids to play organized, SUPERVISED, tackle football, before a certain age...methinks they've had way more concussions than I did.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by KC911

That's why I started this thread....some folks want to make it illegal for kids to play organized, SUPERVISED, tackle football, before a certain age...methinks they've had way more concussions than I did.

Well then, if we are going to practice some amateur science based on forum observations, I'm going to take a whack at it if you don't mind.

We cannot have a friendly discussion about gas cans in the forum because one guy that has previously bragged (in PARF) about multiple concussions including twice cracking his own football helmet cannot control his aggression.

Aggression after Traumatic Brain Injury: Prevalence & Correlates
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2918269/

Aggression is one of the most common consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI)......................

A total of 107 subjects with first-time closed head injuries were recruited within three months of trauma from the acute trauma unit of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Brain Injury (rehabilitation) unit of Kernan Hospital, University of Maryland. Evaluations were completed only on participants able to give informed consent; we evaluated the ability of participants to give informed consent based on their treating physicians’ opinions and based on the abilities of the participants to accurately summarize the study and their roles in it.

But hey, trust your own science, and I'll trust mine and that of the medical profession.

And if you want to contact me, I'll be out for a while checking out the weather in my backyard for evidence of global climate change.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by kach22i

Well then, if we are going to practice some amateur science based on forum observations, I'm going to take a whack at it if you don't mind.

We cannot have a friendly discussion about gas cans in the forum because one guy that has previously bragged (in PARF) about multiple concussions including twice cracking his own football helmet cannot control his aggression.

Aggression after Traumatic Brain Injury: Prevalence & Correlates
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2918269/


But hey, trust your own science, and I'll trust mine and that of the medical profession.

And if you want to contact me, I'll be out for a while checking out the weather in my backyard for evidence of global climate change.

WTF...and who are you talking about? I'll shoot yer azz if you come after my old skool spouts....but it'll be friendly fire . I did play "at" organized football in grades 7-8...but I was a scrawny runt trying to play against young men with facial hair. The point is...stupid laws won't stop stupid kids from doing stupid schit...unsupervised

Not then...not now, not ever...

[onewhippedpuppy]

Congrats captain obvious, we all know concussions are bad. This thread is also good evidence that despite what the lying media wants you to believe, football is not the only way to get a concussion. A friend of mine played college soccer, he wagers that he easily had 10 concussions between taking a header wrong and colliding head-on with other players. One of my friends currently has a 5th grader playing club soccer, in one game they lost players to a concussion, a broken orbital bone, and a broken arm. ONE GAME. My 8th grader has played tackle football since 3rd grade, I can remember maybe one broken arm and two concussions for any kid on his team during that timeframe. The good in organized sports, any of them, dramatically outweighs the bad.

[legion]

My six year old plays hockey (and my two year old is itching to get on the ice). I must say that I'm hesitant to let him compete when he gets older and checking becomes allowed. (This is usually when the concussions start for hockey players.)

That said, it's my understanding that CTE is bad for boxers and football players because of repeated concussions over a lifetime. They estimate that some of these folks have had over a hundred concussions in their lifetime and as many as a dozen each year of playing. I don't think that one or two concussions in a lifetime is much of a concern.

[wdfifteen]

No concussions that I know of, but I got my bell rung pretty good a few times playing football.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by legion

My six year old plays hockey (and my two year old is itching to get on the ice). I must say that I'm hesitant to let him compete when he gets older and checking becomes allowed. (This is usually when the concussions start for hockey players.)

FWIW I think youth hockey helmets should be redesigned to provide better protection to the back of the head. I saw a kid go down on his back and the helmet slid up allowing the back of his head to contact the ice hard, That was a scary 5 minutes.