If you look at all of the claims of being bumped and having symptoms come roaring back, the vast majority do not even qualify as neck trauma.

Guys, How do you react when you see somebody hit in the groin on TV or even in real life? Often, it is a whole body flinch.

When I see somebody hit in the head on TV or Netflix, I get a visceral reaction almost like an electric shock.

When I am startled, it can take me an hour to settle my body and mind down.

If I bump my head as I often do, I just acknowledge the bump and move on. Sometimes, my brain will sense an impending bump and respond with Ouch, even if I did not make contact.

If somebody asks me about concussion headaches, which I have had many, I will sense a headache until a few minutes after the conversation ends. I have had chronic headaches that lasted 6 to 9 months twice in the last 25 years after a concussion. My brain has memorized that sensation very well.

Every symptom of a concussion can be caused by the brain replaying memories of past symptoms.

Amputees often experience something called phantom limb pain. It feels like their missing limb is in pain. They have no nerves within a foot of where the pain sensation is. The brain has memorized the pain experienced before the amputation and when it is triggered to check on that pain, finds no sensation so it plays the old pain from memory.

The more people play these old memories, the more this phantom concussion symptoms will play. Some call it a flashback. Some say it is PTSD.

I wonder if a therapist skilled with EMDR (Eye Motion Desensitization and Retraining) can help. It helps a lot of trauma victims.

I used to have bad set backs from turning my head from side to side until I realized it was causing neck inflammation. I learned to moderate such movement and my neck developed better stability. It took more than a year to see improvement. How many of you have been disciplined to moderate your lives to help your body and mind heal?

It was no different than me needing to learn better discipline regarding my injured back and shoulder. It took 2 years consistent discipline of not doing things that strained my back and shoulder to see improvement. The physical therapist had been pushing me to hard.

We need to take charge and be our own best healer.