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Concussion?
Yesterday, at gymnastics practice, i fell and hit the back of my head off of the floor. This floor was kinda soft, but it still hurt when I hit my head. My head hurt for a few minutes after that, but then the pain mostly went away. I kept practicing and I still felt pretty good, just a very slight head pain. Today, I was volunteering for something and I had to stand up for hours with only a few breaks, and I got a small pain in my head/eyes and I slept for a few hours afterwards. Do I have a slight concussion? Should I go to the doctor?
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Hi, Thank you for your question. After such head impact such kind of neurological symptoms are common due to extent of damaged part of brain and may remain symptomatic or progress in future. Although any sure success cure can not be assured in such cases, but symptomatic relief or it may decrease with period of time, physiotherapy, avoiding any triggering factors and life style modification help you in certain extent. Please arrange an appointment with a neurologist who will evaluate the further prognosis here and can provide you an appropriate treatment. Hope this helps.
Gymnast, you, your teammates, and your coaches may benefit from a tool called imPACT, which was created specifically for your question. The impact website is impacttest and the Concussion Resource Center has great information. Take good care.
I am mainly concerned because the same thing happened to my teammate a few days ago. Everyone thought she was fine, and she kept practicing after her fall, but later she was diagnosed with a minor concussion. She felt fine afterwards, no headaches or anything. So I thought the same thing might have happened to me?
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