Possible Concussion and anexity over it.
 

Hi
First off, I would like to say I have chronic heath anexity (Usually about head/brain injuries).I'll be getting help but it's about a week away. Anyways, I was getting into the passenger side of the car and leaned my head down to avoid the car frame. I got into the car and sat down rather quickly..I felt some slight temporary neck pain from leaning forward and sitting down on impact with the seat.I didn't hit any part of my head, but the neck pain and my anxious self screamed whiplash and concussion.Basically could I had gotten a concussion from sitting down to quickly, letting gravity take over causing some force to rattle my brain when I came in contact with the seat when sitting.

Do you have a history of head injuries or where does your anxiety over hitting your head stem from? Based on what you said in your post, I really do not think just from sitting down in a car could cause enough force to be exerted to cause anything even close to a concussion. I do understand how the anxiety can kind of take over your mind with things like that though. Just this morning I dropped a very small light pillow on my head and I can't stop thinking about whether it could have potentially given me some kind of concussion even though logically I know that is just not possible. It kinda drives me crazy sometimes!

Just give it a few days and you will feel back to normal and probably won't even remember the incident. At least thats how it usually works for me, until something else happens where my brain won't shut up about whether that was a concussion or not!

Phin774,

Welcome to NeuroTalk.

A car seat has far too much shock absorption to cause a concussion from sitting down hard.

I did the numbers long ago. An 8 inch drop with 1/8th inch deflection would be 64 G's. With 1/4 inch deflection, the G's would be 32. With 1/2 inch deflection, the G force would 16 G's or less. A car seat has more than an inch of distortion, much more with a drop. At one inch, the G force would be 8. Stepping off a curb is 8 G's. If you can walk around and go up and down steps, you experience this force many times each day. This is not even a sub-concussive force.

btw, If your back and/or neck was bent, even more energy was absorbed. The curves in the back and neck are very good at absorbing impact forces.

What are you doing to help with your health anxiety ?

Why are you focused on head/brain injuries ? Did you have a personal experience ?

Phin,

My take is that would be impossible to be concussed from such an event.

If you did get a concussion from your description the whole world would be concussed from something every day.

The body is pretty durable and designed for life.

Bud