The History of Concussion

Are some sports going to be more at risk than others? We've dwelled in this programme quite heavily on rugby and also football. Are they isolated cases or are pretty much all sports at risk of this happening? If you wind back 10 years, people would not be thinking about concussion. The history of it is something I think we should look at but essentially problem with the brain is that although it is full of nerves, it's actually numb. So when it's injured, you feel nothing. That's why we as neurosurgeons can operate on people who are fully awake - if you're doing that on any other organ, it would be agony.