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Old 05-30-2022, 11:07 PM #11
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DeanBJJ,

I've been traveling with limited broadband so I could not reply.

The tissue/cellular damage NEVER heals because neurons do not heal or regenerate and levels needed to heal damage. A bone or skin makes scar tissue. There is not such thing as scar tissue in the brain matter.

The brain actually continues to 'suffer damage' after the original injury as the neurons and other healthy cells separate from the damaged/malfunctioning cells so those cells can be instructed to die and be absorbed. Using tRNA, transmitting RNA, they send out die signals to prevent those malfunctioning cells from disrupting the pathways of the healthy cells.

There are diagnostic systems that can compare various post-injury brain functions to baseline/pre-injury function. The injured brain will show failure when under stress even though it may operate at a higher level during non-stress activities.

If your physio had truly had 17 concussions, I can guarantee he is not functioning at pre-injury levels. His tolerance for stress is greatly reduced. How does he define/diagnose a concussion?

Most concussion diagnostics are very subjective and depend on the patient's observation skills of their symptoms. They may not even consider some symptoms as indicators. They confuse anxiety/startle from the impact with a concussion.

You have been told a lot of pure BS. That is common as everybody who goes to a concussion seminar thinks they are experts. Whether it is an IMPACT or CNS Vital Signs or Headminder or other seminar, they are industries looking for profits. Their focus is supporting engaging in at-risk sports with a primary focus of establishing Return to Play criteria. The Zurich Consensus on Concussion in Sports and other later global sports conferences have struggled to acknowledge the risks because they cause athletes to leave the sports WHERE THE SPORTS INDUSTRY MAKES A PROFIT.

Trying to diagnose a concussion by trying to analyze the forces involved is meaningless. Your motorcycle crash cannot be analyzed. Your loss of consciousness could have been a vagal response, syncope, concussion LOC, or from a myriad of causes. Corotid or vertebral blood flow could be the cause. The reduced blood flow could have caused damage. Nobody can say.

BJJ is an at risk combat sport. Make your own mind about how you want to live you life.

But, as I said elsewhere, considering BJJ is like asking, Can I have sex until I get a little bit pregnant.


I have lived with neurological/behavior/cognitive/memory struggles since 1965. I've suffered 5 events since then that each set me back further. In 2001, 1 minor event changed my life. That does not count the other 8-10 mild concussions.

My wife lives life without her right leg due to cancer. I would never minimize her struggles but I would trade my right leg for a healthy brain with no questions.

There is an old saying. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
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This thread has not gotten out of my mind in weeks....I guess when your on the side of permanent damage/problems that last a lifetime. We wish we could persuade them to change their ways?

But it seams it wont.....If I had a second chance I would not go to work that ugly day! I cant change the past, but only what I do today effects my future.

I wish the best to the poster. Read a few hundred threads, maybe that could change your mind?

Good luck
Thanks for the response man!!

Are you on the side of permanent damage/problems? If so I am sorry to hear that. Believe me, I'm not taking any of this lightly. I'm constantly battling internally about whether I should quit BJJ or continue.

I understand about risking a possible long term/permanent injury, but I have to ask myself. If I am so worried about that, then I shouldn't ride a motorcycle ever again, or I shouldn't snowboard, or should drive a car, or do many other things that COULD cause an injury right?

I think that is the biggest thing I am struggling with internally. If I give up BJJ to protect my brain, then riding a motorcycle seems hypocritical because if I come off that I am probably going to be FAR worse off. Or doing snowboarding where you fall on your ***, tumble, land funny etc.

I just feel like it is a "what if" situation with everything and I wanted to try and live my life sensibly but not just avoiding things all the time.
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DeanBJJ,

I've been traveling with limited broadband so I could not reply.

The tissue/cellular damage NEVER heals because neurons do not heal or regenerate and levels needed to heal damage. A bone or skin makes scar tissue. There is not such thing as scar tissue in the brain matter.

The brain actually continues to 'suffer damage' after the original injury as the neurons and other healthy cells separate from the damaged/malfunctioning cells so those cells can be instructed to die and be absorbed. Using tRNA, transmitting RNA, they send out die signals to prevent those malfunctioning cells from disrupting the pathways of the healthy cells.

There are diagnostic systems that can compare various post-injury brain functions to baseline/pre-injury function. The injured brain will show failure when under stress even though it may operate at a higher level during non-stress activities.

If your physio had truly had 17 concussions, I can guarantee he is not functioning at pre-injury levels. His tolerance for stress is greatly reduced. How does he define/diagnose a concussion?

Most concussion diagnostics are very subjective and depend on the patient's observation skills of their symptoms. They may not even consider some symptoms as indicators. They confuse anxiety/startle from the impact with a concussion.

You have been told a lot of pure BS. That is common as everybody who goes to a concussion seminar thinks they are experts. Whether it is an IMPACT or CNS Vital Signs or Headminder or other seminar, they are industries looking for profits. Their focus is supporting engaging in at-risk sports with a primary focus of establishing Return to Play criteria. The Zurich Consensus on Concussion in Sports and other later global sports conferences have struggled to acknowledge the risks because they cause athletes to leave the sports WHERE THE SPORTS INDUSTRY MAKES A PROFIT.

Trying to diagnose a concussion by trying to analyze the forces involved is meaningless. Your motorcycle crash cannot be analyzed. Your loss of consciousness could have been a vagal response, syncope, concussion LOC, or from a myriad of causes. Corotid or vertebral blood flow could be the cause. The reduced blood flow could have caused damage. Nobody can say.

BJJ is an at risk combat sport. Make your own mind about how you want to live you life.

But, as I said elsewhere, considering BJJ is like asking, Can I have sex until I get a little bit pregnant.


I have lived with neurological/behavior/cognitive/memory struggles since 1965. I've suffered 5 events since then that each set me back further. In 2001, 1 minor event changed my life. That does not count the other 8-10 mild concussions.

My wife lives life without her right leg due to cancer. I would never minimize her struggles but I would trade my right leg for a healthy brain with no questions.

There is an old saying. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Thanks Mark, I do appreciate all your help on this.

I'm really sorry to hear about your wife and also your long term struggles due to your concussions. Have you had 5 major concussions and 8 minor ones then? May I ask what long term issues you suffer if you don't mind sharing. At what point (how many concussions) before you started to notice the long term effects.

When you talk about the neurons never healing, the damage etc, what actually happens then long term? Let's say someone had one concussion their entire life. Are you saying that even one means that they are not as cognitively intelligent? Or that the brain is forever "weaker" in a sense?

I wouldn't mind reading some Thesis's or research papers about what you are describing. I would love to find out more about it.

My Physio is going off his Rugby career where he had "bell ringers," was side-lined due to knocks and has definitely had a fair few concussions.

So with a lot of the stuff I have been told being BS, can you explain exactly what parts? I really want to know and am very interested in understanding the facts (or as much about concussions factually) as I can.

Is any of the things I have been told true? Like different things mimicking concussions, or that doctors really still don't know the true long term effects of concussion, how to prevent them, or even how to 100% diagnose a concussion?

I'm really torn, because as I said in response to the previous comment, I feel like if I quit BJJ, then I also have to quit riding motorcycles, quit snowboarding, quit driving a car because I could get a whiplash or head injury etc etc. Basically, I feel like I have to quit anything that COULD cause a concussion, but then I could slip over and hit the back of my head and give myself a major concussion which my friend recently did sadly.

She has had 5 concussions in the last 18 months sadly and is not doing very well (was off work for like 6 - 12 months) and just keeps getting them accidently like slipping over and hitting head, or getting something accidently thrown at her.

I was trying to go back to BJJ to say to myself I wouldn't let this fear of head knocks control my life. I'm trying to be careful by drilling more, rolling less and rolling less intensely but yeah it is a tough time.
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BBJ is all about trying to control the other person with moves that can easily cause injury. Injuries are expected.

Motorcycle riding and snowboarding are not about trying to hurt or gain physical control over an opponent. Injuries are accidental.

I'm not going to get into the details other than to say, I had to drop out of college because I could not endure the stress. I would crash during exams and tests. I had the same experience at 10th grade after a concussion from heading a soccer ball. My academic skills declined greatly.

My academics were a roller coaster after my severe concussion at 10.

The rugby community is just starting to acknowledge the damage players have suffered. Rugby players have a culture of "nothing will keep me down" except those who get hurt with long term consequences are disregarded as they leave the sport.

People of mediocre intelligence do not notice the differences as much as people of higher intelligence.

If you don't want your fear of head impacts to control your life, you have a choice to ignore that fear. It does not change the risk. Live your life. Just don't try to get people like me to affirm your choices.

My short term memory is horrible. It tests in the bottom 10% of the population even though my intelligence is in the top 12% to 2% of the population. Driving on busy streets is a terror because my brain is constantly reacting to the fast movement around me.

My mother and my wife have both observed serious negative changes in my personality.

Look up anhedonia.... Yeah. It sucks. Visual aphasia, afantasia, verbal/expressive aphasia,

I used to have a photographic memory. Now, I can't look at a object and look away and describe it.

I post online because I can read what I was just thinking and typed because if I said it, I would not remember what I just said so I could continue the thought and comments.

There are many activities you can do that have a lower risk than BBJ. BBJ is about ego, not enjoyment.
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BBJ is all about trying to control the other person with moves that can easily cause injury. Injuries are expected.

Motorcycle riding and snowboarding are not about trying to hurt or gain physical control over an opponent. Injuries are accidental.

I'm not going to get into the details other than to say, I had to drop out of college because I could not endure the stress. I would crash during exams and tests. I had the same experience at 10th grade after a concussion from heading a soccer ball. My academic skills declined greatly.

My academics were a roller coaster after my severe concussion at 10.

The rugby community is just starting to acknowledge the damage players have suffered. Rugby players have a culture of "nothing will keep me down" except those who get hurt with long term consequences are disregarded as they leave the sport.

People of mediocre intelligence do not notice the differences as much as people of higher intelligence.

If you don't want your fear of head impacts to control your life, you have a choice to ignore that fear. It does not change the risk. Live your life. Just don't try to get people like me to affirm your choices.

My short term memory is horrible. It tests in the bottom 10% of the population even though my intelligence is in the top 12% to 2% of the population. Driving on busy streets is a terror because my brain is constantly reacting to the fast movement around me.

My mother and my wife have both observed serious negative changes in my personality.

Look up anhedonia.... Yeah. It sucks. Visual aphasia, afantasia, verbal/expressive aphasia,

I used to have a photographic memory. Now, I can't look at a object and look away and describe it.

I post online because I can read what I was just thinking and typed because if I said it, I would not remember what I just said so I could continue the thought and comments.

There are many activities you can do that have a lower risk than BBJ. BBJ is about ego, not enjoyment.
You might be right. As much as I love BJJ tonight might have been the final straw for me.

I was rolling again and was in Mount (on top of opponent) and was digging for a choke and because my hands were tied up I got bumped aggressively forward (a legit technique to create space to escape), but I couldn't break my fall forward and my head drove straight into the mat.

I was only maybe 15 - 20cm off the ground because I was low and I hit my forehead and the mat is somewhat soft so I am hoping I don't have another head injury/concussion. I feel pretty much fine, maybe SLIGHTLY and dizzy but nothing bad. I had a cold last week and still kinda recovering so that could be part of it anyway.

But I ended up accidently smacking another opponents face into the mat as I went for an inverted armbar into omoplata transition and I smacked the back of the guys head accidently into the ground and his nose started bleeding HEAVILY.

But I was at home thinking, if I keep doing this even small hits will add up eventually and I was thinking about how I have been feeling this week. I'm only studying so I can pace myself but I think, wow once I get into 9-5 workdays if I keep this up I might struggle to maintain that level of brain activity in the future.

It was just playing on my mind. And I think what worries me was I always thought it would be sort of acute. Like I'd get a major head injury, my IQ would diminish and not fully recover.

But I'm starting to think that it might be slower and sneakier than I thought, where if I keep going this way, over a few years I might notice a subtle decline over a period of years, especially as I will get more and more knocks, even small ones.

You make a good point about how snowboarding and motorcycle riding are not ACTIVELY trying to control and are more accidents when something happens.

However, I don't think it is fair to say BJJ is ego because it is a sport like any other and something I love. It is not about trying to smash someone, it is a complex game where you can flow, move and develop your body.

But yeah, I think it might be time to hang it up.

Also, would you consider what I did likely to cause a concussion? I feel mostly fine, slight pressure in head but that happens a lot from minor knocks and my anxiety anyway.
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Thanks for the response man!!

Are you on the side of permanent damage/problems? If so I am sorry to hear that. Believe me, I'm not taking any of this lightly. I'm constantly battling internally about whether I should quit BJJ or continue.

I understand about risking a possible long term/permanent injury, but I have to ask myself. If I am so worried about that, then I shouldn't ride a motorcycle ever again, or I shouldn't snowboard, or should drive a car, or do many other things that COULD cause an injury right?

I think that is the biggest thing I am struggling with internally. If I give up BJJ to protect my brain, then riding a motorcycle seems hypocritical because if I come off that I am probably going to be FAR worse off. Or doing snowboarding where you fall on your ***, tumble, land funny etc.

I just feel like it is a "what if" situation with everything and I wanted to try and live my life sensibly but not just avoiding things all the time.
Yes I have been disabled for over 15 years....Lots of problems for me, so its one day at a time...I was never able to pass the tests to drive again, so every moment of my waking days has been affected.

I wish I had some hobbies, watching tv fills lots of my time...It is a boring life but I cant deal with loud anything, people, to much of excitement of anything.

About this time last year I was terrified as we had a wild fire 10 miles away, being trapped, the smoke everywhere, and knowing I couldnt get far walking...So 6 years ago I got a real service dog to help me in public.

So you can see that my life has been ruined by my TBI....If I could change what happened on January 2, 2007 I would....
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