Hi Soccer

I've never heard of the IMPACT test. It wasn't around when I had all my injuries. What is it?

I have a feeling that, even though I started deteriorating after the worst of my concussions at age 15 (hit by car), and lost my sense of smell and started with central apnea, everything got much worse after I did martial arts for 7 years ending when I was 45. I studied Aikido, which involves being thrown onto the mat a lot. You're trained in how to fall, but you are tumbling and slapping and hitting the mat all the time. I must have been thrown hundreds of times. While it taught me a lot, spiritually, there just wasn't information about aggravating previous injuries with this kind of thing.

Believe me, the person you will be when you are 50 will thank you for saving some brain matter until then. You could spend most of year 55 looking for your car keys... :-).

gershonb