Everyone always laughs at hitting someone in the head with a punch/can of beans/baseball bat/2x4/karate chop/whatever and knock them out. The joke being that the person will wake in ten minutes or an hour like in the movies and theyâll go about living again.
In real life if you knock someone out cold with some kind of hit to their head ⊠youâve more than likely killed them or put them in a place where they will die within the next hour or two.
False LMFAO.
Source: semi pro snowboarder whoâs been knocked out many times
Being knocked out is literally one step before dead and can have serious aftereffects like parts of your swollen brain dying because thereâs too less space for a swollen brain in your skull.
I too was once knocked out as a child and barfed 3 days afterwards with memory loss.
Take care of yourself.
It is not one step before death. Holy shit are you being dramatic.
I had a TBI as a result of a double impact - minor concussion where I didnât pass out skateboarding (and didnât know it), then the next day friendly fire collision with a friend in the park snowboarding. I was knocked out for five minutes, had an out of body experience, came to very aggressively with a permanent change of personality that persists to this day half a lifetime later. That being said I was nowhere near death, had a I been knocked out into a coma things would be different.
TBIs are nothing to mess with, they change you for life. ADHD like symptoms, mental health struggles, aggression and explosive anger, memory loss, gaslighting from medical professionals about the severity of the injury (the 2000s were roughâŠ) and opening yourself up to abuse by future significant others because you donât trust your own memory. Never mind the struggle to maintain employment or how TBIs are invisible disabilities that are tough to get workplace accommodations for.
TBIs are serious, even when they are âmildâ (a complete misnomer). But being knocked out â being knocked into a coma which is one step from death. Nor does it mean youâre having a brain bleed. Your brain is inflamed and itâs key not to impact it again for a ~month while the inflammation recedes. Because I had a double impact I ended up permanently damaged. I worry about CTE and dementia later in life as Iâve had other hits to the head since, including getting knocked out momentarily while riding for work.
FYI in case anyone asks - yes I wear a helmet and was wearing one the day of my TBI. Helmets donât prevent concussions at all, they prevent skull fractures, punctures and lacerations. The helmet saved my life because it prevented skull fracture but more importantly laceration, as my friend collided into my head with the edge of her board first.
No you probably havenât been knocked out multiple times for seconds. Or you have a very rare brain condition that triggers that on light taps.
28 years of snowboarding and skateboarding will do that.
I ride over 100 days a year for the last decade and used to be paid to do so. Itâs an occupational hazardâŠ
I got briefly knocked out skateboarding a couple times and snowboarding a couple more. Ever catch your heels? If you know you know. My TBI was skateboarding the first day and got a concussion without losing consciousness and didnât know it, the second day was snowboarding and a friend landed on my head in the park. I was out for 5 minutes. Which is a relatively long time in terms of âmildâ head injuries.
One of my brief knock outs was when I got hit while working⊠almost 20 years after the TBI. The tbi makes losing consciousness happen quicker but a lot of my brief knock outs were pre TBI.
Youâre actually dead and died in that second knock out ⊠this is purgatory and youâll be commenting like this for a few thousand years.
Iâm no scientist, doctor or medical professional ⊠I just know that its dangerous to try to knock someoneâs noggin really hard to try to make them pass out. Dangerous to the point that there is a good chance that it can kill someone.
Being knocked out is certainly not good, but itâs not automatic death like youâre suggesting.
Depends where you hit and how hard. Itâs the emergency shutdown because of concussion. If the concussion was too hard, it can swell and then it gets dangerous. Not to mention fragile places like temple or neck.
Wdit: concussion, not convulsion
That is⊠Incorrect, there is about a 30% death rate within one year of brain trauma but there is absolutely no data showing that someone is going to die within an hour of being knocked unconscious more often than not, especially if they are young
Iâm not saying that youâre wrong. You sound like you might know what youâre talking about. I just like publications and medical evidence. I trust that you wonât take it the wrong way.
That is⊠Incorrect, there is about a 30% death rate within one year of brain trauma [âŠ]
Source?
[âŠ] but there is absolutely no data showing that someone is going to die within an hour of being knocked unconscious more often than not, [âŠ]
Do you have a metastudy or something for that?
especially if they are young
That last sentence, do you have a source for the difference in outcome depending on the patientâs age?
A weird amount of people were triggered by you asking for evidence. A reflection on our times.
Bricolo, A., Turazzi, S., & Feriotti, G. (1980). Prolonged posttraumatic unconsciousness: therapeutic assets and liabilities⊠Journal of neurosurgery, 52 5, 625-34 . https://doi.org/10.3171/JNS.1980.52.5.0625.
And itâs not on me to find the burden of truth for you. Thatâs a logical fallacy and a bad arguing tactic
at least show the studies youâre referencing instead of just saying you have them and asking for others to show theirs
Source?
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15038-concussion This work (not for the 30% thing but just in general)?
So I once slipped on a puddle while jogging (in the wrong place) and hit the back of my head on sedimentary tiles.
Since I had stiffened my neck, trying to stretch it backward (yes I was doing that while jogging on wet tiles), my head hit the ground hard.
After about 2 minutes, I fainted for ~10 seconds. Was fine later.
Thatâs the problem with anecdotal evidence. You can always find that one person who fulfills the criteria but whoâs outcome doesnât match.
Of course you can be fine afterwards. But thereâs a considerable risk that youâre not, and experiencing symptoms of a traumatic head injury does warrant a visit to the hospital.
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No.
Every time I get reminded of Le Mis I hear this youtube poop in my head and start giggling.
And even if you havenât killed them outright, they can have permanent disabilities.
If you, or someone you know, gets knocked out, or experiences other symptoms of a central nervous system trauma after a hit to the head, please seek medical care immediately. Itâs not one those âtake two aspirin and letâs see how it goes in the morningâ kinda things.
Iâm just one person, but during my life Iâve seen this multiple times. I will refrain from boring you, and doxxing myself, by telling my anecdotes. Suffice it to say that I have known people who would have been dead if they hadnât gone to work with a âbad hangoverâ, or ended up with narcolepsy or chronic encephalopathy. And that was separate people BTW.
Lemmy will make up any excuse to be violent towards women, huh?
Try thinking, for once ever, about why they made it a woman. And why this story with extreme violenece towards women appealed to so many on Lemmy. Try thinking about why thatâs relevant when we have womenâs rights being actively eroded with Project 2025.
Or donât think and stay smug in your little man cult. Be a gender narcissist and abuse women because of your delusional beliefs. Harm everyone and everything because you lack humility and honesty. Fucking cowards, all of you.
Fake: Anon doesnât have a dad
Gay : Anon didnât hiton a woman
