Can a slap to the back of the head cause damage?
 

Hello everyone, I’ve been slowly making progress on getting over my anxiety but when I’m almost close to getting over it for the most part another incident happens to me creating extreme worry. For example, today I got slapped in the back of the head by a friend at school (I’ve told him to not do it to me after the incident) but I am now very concerned of whether this has cause and damage to my brain? As soon as it happened the back of my head stung for a few minutes and afterwards I had some pain in my nose bridge and eye area and a mild headache on the sides of my head (which I think may have been a tension headache). Also it’s been a few hours since the incident and the back of my head feels numb but doesn’t hurt (only the sides of head hurt as of right now), but is it possible this would’ve caused brain damage? Also what would be the contact/acceleration duration of a hand impacting the back of the head compared to the head hitting against a wall?

I can't speak for others but you have already explained your OCD and anxiety so I will not encourage any validity to your question with an answer.

I’m not quite what you mean, can you please explain?

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I’m just wondering if this would be enough force to cause a concussion or subconcussive impact? And do infrequent subconcussive impacts still cause brain damage. If not then why do repetitive ones cause long term damage? Thanks in advance.

Infrequent sub-concussive impacts do not cause damage. It is the sub-concussive impacts that happen multiple times in a short period that do.

The average football player who plays in a contact position experienced 800 to 1000 sub-concussive impacts during a 16 week season. That is over 50 a week or 10 a day.

With no time for the brain to recover from these minor hits, the micro stresses become damaging.

Next time a friend slaps you in the head, knee him in the groin as a "welcome."

This is the last time I will address this with you. I will not validate your OCD behaviors. As experience has shown me, you will always have another bump that you think has caused brain damage.


Answer this simple question.

If this slap did cause brain damage, how would it change your life or what would you do differently moving forward?

btw, It did not cause damage.

Stop looking for reasons to think your brain has been damaged.

Thank you the for the reply :) I have been making good progress on getting over my OCD and am no longer worried about very tiny hits or bumps that worried me before and the anxiety is getting somewhat better. I was just concerned because that hit felt pretty hard. I just have one question though, if multiple hits cause damage why don’t infrequent hits cause damage? I don’t understand, wouldn’t the damage just be more evident?

Why does 10 minutes in the sun a day not damage your skin but 10 minutes an hour for every day for weeks does?

10 minutes a day give the skin time to recover. 10 minutes an hour does not.

Okay thank you I understand the gist of it quite better now, but what exactly happens inside the brain during a subconcussion blow?

Let go of this. You should not be feeding your OCD.