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younger were treated in U.S. emergency departments for concussion or traumatic brain injury.”
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arolyn Thompson of Chestertown, Md. is a mom of a typical active six year old. This past February she signed up her son Finn for ice skating lessons in Easton as a fun diversion in the winter months. Unfortunately the fun was short lived. “He had just started to become more confident on the ice when suddenly his skates slipped right out from under him and he slammed his back and head against the ice,” Thompson shares. “He hit his head
17 or younger hard, but he was wearing a helmet. He were treated stood right back up after he fell, and By Joyce Heid in U.S. he never lost consciousness.” Initially Finn seemed fine. He emergency continued skating for about 30 minutes with no complaints. “It wasn’t departments until I took his helmet off,” Thompson says, “that he started to complain for concussion about it hurting his head, and his or traumatic eyes started blinking rapidly.” She thought his blinking was due to the brain injury windy conditions, but the next day his teachers sent a note home from (TBI)...” school about the blinking and she
