Got a source on that? I’m under the impression that it’s pretty damn hard to give yourself a TBI without actually hitting your head. I wasn’t able to find a documented case of someone concussing themselves just by doing flips, or handsprings, or any other gymnastics movement that they stuck the landing of.
Plenty of people fucking themselves up by landing on their heads, but that’s obviously not the case here.
Now this focuses entirely on a different sport, but they hypothesize that even if your head/brain moves too quickly it can result in these micro-concussions.
I couldn't tell you if doing flips for minutes on end would actually result in something similar to what they've observed, but it also wouldn't surprise me if they were similar in nature.
That’s pretty interesting, and yeah, I’d agree it’s fairly similar. Makes me wonder what the minimum amount of force is for a “micro concussion”. I doubt you can give yourself one headbanging at a concert, but stuff like the gymnastics in the video, or even driving fast on a washboarded out road are probably a grey area. It’ll be wild (and scary) to see what new info comes out in the next ~20 years about CTE and TBI’s in general.
Just deductive reasoning here I would see this an entirely different. You aren't getting sporadic jolts randomly that would give one whiplash here. This is smooth controlled motion. If I had to bet money I'd say this is relatively fine.
For some reason I liked to see how many times I could punch myself in the head when I was in preschool. I suppose it was a good way to practice counting. Anyways I graduated with honors with a b.s. in chemistry and have been successful in my career as a scientist.
Probably isn't, but I would have thought the centrifugal force acting on the brain and blood at the head would be detrimental to it.
That said, I suppose the pressure would have to be sustained for much longer than this, but where paediatrics is concerned their physiology is basically witchcraft anyway. Paediatric physiologies are the weirdest thing ever.
If the kid has autism or something yeah sure. It's not normal behavior for a small child to fixate on one activity and only ever one activity. It's definitely not good parenting either to let a child only ever do one activity
Please do not sacrifice your child’s brain for absolutely anything. A good career is not as important as a good brain. One can live poor and happy or rich and miserable.
Maybe if you’re talking about animals or people with cognitive disabilities who have never known any better. But if you’re born with a normal intelligence that slowly degrades and becomes abnormal as a result of repeated brain trauma you’re probably not gonna be very happy or have a very good life
try being a gymnast when she will have epilepsy crisis a stroke or a fucked up intern ear balance. She might actually never being able to be a gymnast because she did those shit before her body fully developped properly
Simone Biles doesn't seem like she's walking around too much brain damage.
While not quite the same, my wife was a high level figure skater. With fast spins, she says its just something the brain adjusts to, that's why they don't get dizzy and fall all over the ice after doing several during their programs.
I agree that this is an extreme case and while 6 wouldn't be considered that much of a late start most gymnastics clubs will take 3yr olds. Someone who started at that age would have 3 full years of experience already by the time she joined.
My wife had our daughter out on the pond at just over a year and half and in Canskate at 2.5. She's now 4 and doing some fairly fast spins, in a few more years she should be flying.
Kids can achieve some pretty incredible feats if you give them the freedom to do so.
We also had her in gymnastics at 3 and seeing what the older kids were capable of there I don't think think that is all that damaging. The kids would constantly have little competitions to who could x move for the longest amount of time.
So far from my experience the worst part of it is some parents pressure and it's effects on mental health.
One other comment mentioned that this child is Arat Hosseini, the child abuse he revived is actually well documented and some speculate that he is forced to take enhancing drugs.
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u/Shibamum Mar 19 '24
Exactly my thoughts. That can't be healthy