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Originally Posted by Mark in Idaho
No, if there was a concussion, it was just one. Multiple bumps can make a single concussion worse in some cases. I wonder if you are concerned after seeing the movie "Concussion." Some have expressed anxiety about developing CTE from concussions and bumps they have suffered.
Padded carpet on the stairs can reduced the impact forces greatly.
Whether you lost consciousness does not matter. Unless one ends up in a coma or has low Glascow coma scores, short periods of LOC do not statistical make much difference
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Thank you, Mark.
I became extremely paranoid about CTE after learning about it; however, I did not learn about CTE from the movie "Concussion".
I believe I've messaged you about this before:
I don't recall ever sustaining a severe concussion. However, while I was a kid, I liked to wrestle my friends and cousin (I wrestled for "fun" for around 2 years?). And while I don't recall sustaining a concussion during wrestling, I'm still scared about developing CTE.
While I was a kid, I also did something to amuse myself: I shook (rotated?) my head rapidly like I was saying "no". And while I've heard some people say that your neck muscles probably can't produce injurious force to your brain (unless we're talking about something like long-term head banging), I'm still very concerned.
The only high school sport I participated in was Track and Field, so I wasn't taking constant hits to my head during high school.
However, I recall playing a few soccer game with my friends after the Track and Field season ended. During one of the games, I headed a soccer ball which was flying pretty high, and I recall quite a bit of pain. However, I stayed in the game, and I'm not sure if it was a concussion. I have never learned heading technique before this incident, and I deeply regret heading the ball that time. I might've headed another ball which was kicked pretty hardly either during the same game or during another game I played with my friends during that same period (after the Track and Field season). However, I'm not sure if this is just my mind playing tricks on me.
There was also another incident in which I hit the back of my head (moderately hardly or pretty hardly) against a wooden part of my bed while I was trying to lay myself down in bed. If I remember correctly, I was shocked (from hitting my head), and perhaps there was some pain. However, I'm not sure if I was concussed.
I am now 21 years old. I believe I am Obsessive-Compulsive (I think I've been this way for quite some time now), and there are times when I get very scared about developing CTE.
There are times when I feel like my mind makes up incidents that didn't happen. I constantly think about my life and try to recall every part of every incident in which I hit my head.
Mark, based on what I wrote here, what do you think are my chances of developing CTE?
Thank you very much!