Watched a video of a doctor who specializes in head trauma. Shows that Patrick exhibits the classic fencing response (rigid limbs) which occurs during a brain injury. The issue isn't the contact with the ground, it's the sudden de-acceleration which causes the brain to hit the inside of the skull. It doesn't look like much however the video shows how his head is pulled down violently and then stops suddenly.
I really want him to be okay however if it would affect his health, he should not play.
Remember what it was like at 25... 50feet tall and bulletproof. Plus these athletes have been trusting their coaches their entire lives. [Reply]
Originally Posted by crayzkirk:
Watched a video of a doctor who specializes in head trauma. Shows that Patrick exhibits the classic fencing response (rigid limbs) which occurs during a brain injury. The issue isn't the contact with the ground, it's the sudden de-acceleration which causes the brain to hit the inside of the skull. It doesn't look like much however the video shows how his head is pulled down violently and then stops suddenly.
I really want him to be okay however if it would affect his health, he should not play.
Remember what it was like at 25... 50feet tall and bulletproof. Plus these athletes have been trusting their coaches their entire lives.
You know that they have actual doctors on the field, right? That the team employs the best doctors they can find to care for the players? [Reply]
Originally Posted by crayzkirk:
Watched a video of a doctor who specializes in head trauma. Shows that Patrick exhibits the classic fencing response (rigid limbs) which occurs during a brain injury.
Just posting my opinion from a source that sounds rational. I'm not a doctor. I don't want it to be true, I want Patrick to be healthy and play. [Reply]
Originally Posted by crayzkirk:
Just posting my opinion from a source that sounds rational. I'm not a doctor. I don't want it to be true, I want Patrick to be healthy and play.
I was just pointing out the same thing happens with the carotid shock thing. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Marcellus:
I was just pointing out the same thing happens with the carotid shock thing.
Yeah, I saw that. I watched the video again and the individual also went into a detailed description of Dirty Dan and targeting. I think there might be a bit of bias showing through as well. [Reply]
Originally Posted by crayzkirk:
Just posting my opinion from a source that sounds rational. I'm not a doctor. I don't want it to be true, I want Patrick to be healthy and play.
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
You know that they have actual doctors on the field, right? That the team employs the best doctors they can find to care for the players?
I lost consciousness by having my neck compressed in the exact same way that Mahomes' neck was compressed. It does disoriented you, but the "fencing response" BS also happens when you lose consciousness without a concussion.
I am not saying that Mahomes isn't technically concussed, but I believe that it would be secondary to a possible neck injury as far as keeping him off the field next Sunday.
Originally Posted by ChiefsFanatic:
I lost consciousness by having my neck compressed in the exact same way that Mahomes' neck was compressed. It does disoriented you, but the "fencing response" BS also happens when you lose consciousness without a concussion.
I am not saying that Mahomes isn't technically concussed, but I believe that it would be secondary to a possible neck injury as far as keeping him off the field next Sunday.
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He could have some kind of neck injury; there was a lot of torque involved in that incident. But he wasn't concussed. Literally didn't hit his head on anything hard enough, and his head didn't even accelerate/decelerate fast enough to induce one. Whether it was the defender's forearm or the lower edge of Mahomes' helmet, something compressed the side of his neck hard enough to hit the "bingo" button, and the lights went out for a couple seconds. [Reply]