Favelian Girl Hit In The Head By A 4X4 And Left Unconscious

i think she died

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Brain dead? Or what happened there? Looks like a system crash.

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See how her fists clench, elbows and wrists flex, and shoulders adduct and/or flex? This is called decorticate posturing, and indicates severe brain damage has all but certainly occurred involving the cerebral cortex.

I can't say the extent from this video alone, but add in the seizure, and she's almost certainly never going to be remotely the same, if she manages to live at all.

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This happens regularly combat sports without causing people to β€œnever be remotely the same”. While it's possible that the damage is severe, she could also wake up with a headache and no other immediate side effects.

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They don't swing a 4x4 on top of your head in combat sports. Surely there are different degrees of this type of injury and this is a very severe example.

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I've taken blows like that to the head from steel and concrete in industrial accidents and I would say what saved me from similar consequences was my neck stopping my skull from bouncing around as much as hers did. She doesn't seem like a very strong person and while all head injuries that involve decorticate posturing are serious, she is probably less resilient to injury than an athlete would be.

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looks like they fucked up her spine too. would probably be a vegetable even if she survives

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It's possible, she could certainly have fractured vertebrae, but if the spinal cord was severed it wouldn't be able to send the signal to posture that way.

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Decorticate posturing? Idk man

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Yes, most KO's are not that bad but it does happen every year multiple times and most of those it happens to, while I'm sure it isn't good, are not permanently disabled by it.

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I think I should have walked it back a little, idk about "never remotely the same" but I would be really surprised if there were no significant neurological consequences to head trauma resulting in both decorticate posturing and what looked like a tonic-clonic seizure.

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I was also surprised when I looked into it. It seems less than 40% of people who experience it live, but my experience with it has always been with athletes who probably have a far better outlook than the average person suffering a similar injury. Many of the effects of even serious concussions, when they are not fatal, can be more subtle than immediate personality changes or intellectual impairments, but that doesn't mean they aren't significant.

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Extremely well put. Thanks for your two cents and summary of reading.

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Thank you!

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She survived

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Wow, good. Source?

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Accidentally made her go full retard.

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Gave her that scrambled egg treatment.

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