https://rollerderbyathletics.com/steps-players-can-take-toward-a-healther-brain-safety-culture/ Wed, 27 Nov 2019 02:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.9 https://rollerderbyathletics.com/steps-players-can-take-toward-a-healther-brain-safety-culture/#comment-203606 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 06:36:13 +0000 https://rollerderbyathletics.com/?p=48543#comment-203606 Thank you so much for caring about this. I’m a nurse practitioner and former derby girl. I quit playing roller derby a few years ago because of how much it was negatively impacting my brain. I never had a down and out black out concussion – just repeated stuns to the head at practice. The impact was undeniable. My cognition was impaired for hours after each hard hitting practice/bout. Four years later and my brain still isn’t quite the same. I miss derby all the time but for me it’s not worth the risk anymore. I’m so glad I stopped when I did – one more good hit and I could have been in serious trouble. So glad to see discussion about this issue. Thank you.

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