This hits close to home for me because I went through this in my first season of independent ball. I got a concussion diving for a ball to my backhand side while playing short. It had been raining and they had the speedy-dry stuff on the field... I dove, but didn't slide. The doctor said it was "rapid deceleration of the brain."
Its a tough situation, because you don't feel injured, you don't look injured. Teammates and coaches were not understanding - in fact I was released off the disabled list during the ordeal. (An illegal transaction that had to be rectified later.) I wanted to post these links just to give it some attention. Its something to be careful with. I still get groggy if I work out too hard - 4 years later.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/articl...b&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/ne...jp-concussions081710
Anybody in the northeast with concussion stuff, I went here: http://www.sportsconcussion.net/
When I took the visual memory part of the impcat test, I was in the bottom 7th percentile when I was concussed... I was in the 97th when I was healthy. Pretty hard to adjust to a curveball when your brain doesn't process information correctly!
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