They've done it again!
Yet another Jacksonville team has made us proud by winning a National Championship.
Last year the Jacksonville Axemen Rugby Team won the National Championship (although this year they were defeated in round one of the playoffs). This year, the Jacksonville Sharks Arena Football Team made all of Jacksonville proud by winning ArenaBowl XXIV.
The team returned to Jacksonville on Saturday August 13th, at around the same time that I was returning from lecturing at the FAPA (FL Academy of Physician Assistants) Summer conference on MS and how to perform a neurologic exam. At the airport, a reporter commented to me (I am the Jacksonville Sharks and the Jacksonville Axemen Team Neurologist) that no players had a concussion this past year -- this is inaccurate but understandable. The general Public mistakenly associates concussions with only glaring brain injury, however concussion are often more subtle. Tim Tebow's concussion in October 2009, helped raise some awareness regarding concussions (see the video), although it is very hard to believe that it was his first. To further raise awareness, Dr. Kantor joined the medical advisory board of the Seeing Stars Foundation.
We call concussions mTBI (or mild traumatic brain injury), but they are not always so mild.
- Dr. Daniel Kantor, MD
Medical Director
Neurologique
Board Certified, Headache Medicine
info@neurologique.org
www.neurologique.org
Sunday, August 14, 2011
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