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They are downplayed based off one reason – sports. Every day in the news you hear of athletes both in the professional and collegiate level having concussions all the time, and then they go back to practice not too long after.
As a result, it appears a lot less serious to the public than it actually is.
If you can't take the hit, then don't play the sport.
Yeah. sitcoms use the 'hit in the head' amnesia plot device. Fights on tv and in movies have people being punched out and then just waking up a little while later. People think they're invincible. It's amazing how fragile the human body is and how easily the brain can be damaged.
I have had only one concussion in my life . . . I was out for over 48 hours and my headache lasted for weeks.
That was back in 1962. No permanent brain damage, however – that kind of trauma to the head has been known to cause something called "Subdural Hematoma" which if not treated in time can cause death. This is what killed Sonny Bono, and that actors wife up in Canada . . . Both of their injuries were caused in skiing accidents(hitting a tree, I think).
Just my not-so-humble opinion. B)
The football injuries that I'm looking at now that are being studied are not concussions, but just cumulative brain damage from repeated hits (without the obviousness of a knockout blow), much as boxing has long been studied for. So I don't think that concussions are underplayed so much as general injury to the head and brain.