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Old 01-29-2014, 02:55 AM
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Default Young skier 2nd head injury in 5 weeks

My 14 year old daughter is a competitive big mountain freeride skier. She wears a POC helmet with MIPS. 5 weeks ago she crossed her tips and slammed her head on snow. No blackout, she laughed got up and skied away. By the next run a big headache came on and she felt unwell. By the time she came down 2 hours later she was feeling dazed and was slurring her words. The doc diagnosed her with mild concussion symptoms. I was ultra conservative, dark room, no screens, noise, or school for a week. Her biggest symptom was tiredness and by the end of the week she seemed good. Two days ago I got a call from ski patrol to meet at the clinic because she slammed her face on hard snow, profuse bleeding from her nose and scraped face. Again she did not black out and other then the shock of the fall she felt ok compared to how she felt the first time. The dr checked her out and said that there did not appear to be any concussion symptoms. That night she had a mild headache, the next morning a sore neck and difficulty stringing good sentences together during an english exam and now day 3 mild headache and tired. She has a big competition coming up in two weeks time. The conditions on the mountain are horrible, low snow year lots of rock and ice. This makes me beyond nervous. I would like her to sit out this weekend and possibly still compete in two weeks. Or should I be pulling the pin on the competition too? This is her passion and her dream so it's a very difficult situation and I worry that she downplays how she is feeling.
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