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Reader's Digest Canada
|June 2020
How to spot, and recover from, a concussion
SUMMER IS THE season for hiking, bike rides and playing sports outdoors. Unfortunately, it’s also the season of concussions.
More than just a superficial head wound, a concussion is an injury that occurs when a person suffers a bump, jolt or blow that causes the brain to bounce around within the skull, where it is suspended in cerebrospinal fluid. According to a 2017 report in The Lancet, 30 to 50 million people suffer from concussions and other traumatic brain injuries every year, and falls are the most common cause.
This story is from the June 2020 edition of Reader's Digest Canada.
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