Sunday, June 19, 2011

Why we should step up vigilance of concussions in teen girls

The volleyball thudded off the back of Hannah Zarnich?s head, producing an instant, searing headache. It was a hard shot, in part because Hannah was in her usual position along the front row, her back to the server, and hadn?t seen it coming.

She shook it off and kept playing. After the February game, the freshman at Chantilly High School took two Tylenol and finished the tournament, playing two more matches that day, though she felt lousy and didn?t play well.

But that night the scary stuff started. Over the next four weeks, Hannah at times couldn?t do her geometry homework because the symbols made no sense to her. She was intensely nauseated. She was constantly tired but had trouble falling asleep at night. She couldn?t understand the crawling words on her family?s TV screen. And she would become irritable at odd moments (yes, even more unpredictably than an average teenager).

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