My 14 year old daughter was playing softball and suffered a concussion (she was not diagnosed until two weeks after the incident) while playing softball. A player from the opposing team slid into her and struck her extremley hard with an elbow to her forehead. The force of the impact drove her head back causing whiplash to her neck. We did not see the actual impact, but my daughter relayed the insident to us after the game. During the game we did notice she did nto seem herself. She just seemed "off" a little.

Unfortunately after the game, as indicated above, she told us about the incident, that she had a slight headache and her neck hurt. We thought the incident hurt her neck and since she was seeing a chiropractor for a back issue we would just let the chiroprator take a look at it during the next appointment. I did not notice anything mentally wrong with her but she complained she was extremely sore.

Over the course of the next two weeks she continued in school, but she was getting headaches in her PE class. Almost two weeks later from the day of the injury I came home in the afternoon and she was laying on the floor with a migraine type headache and cognitive issues-sensitive to sound and light. I immediately suspected a concussion.

We were able to get her into a doctor who is the local specialist on concussions. He diagnosed her with a concussion. Her symptoms were so bad that she could not attend school, so she missed the last 9 days of school. Other than going to Dr. Appointments she is not up to leaving the house. Two days ago her neck hurt bad enough we took her to the emergency room where they gave her a CT scan. It came back clean. However they said even though soft tissue is difficult to see there was possible inflammation at C-5.

The chiropractor and massage therapist both believe she suffered whiplash during the incident. Ever since the first headache three weeks ago she has had a headache and the cognitive issues (light and sound sensitivity) non stop. Her stomach hurts quite frequently, although she has never vomited. Additionally she does not fall to sleep easily but when she does fall a sleep she sleeps 10 to 11 hours.

When do these symptoms stop? She has never has a concussion before. Is it possible the whiplash is making the concussion worse? To say this condition is not frustrating is an uderstatement!