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this is A stAte of combAt disAbility tent, hAppens to AmAteurs. the con-
(mostly A short-term lAck of con- sequences of frequent brAin shAking
sciousness And disturbed motorics) Are smAll brAin tissue dAmAges. the
thAt lAsts for About ten seconds feAture of brAin tissue is thAt it hAs
or more, cAused by vArious blows very little tendency to heAl, And
to the heAd, neck, And in the body, there is no regenerAtion of specific
ie in the left side of the chest or in tissue At All. due to the frequency
the liver AreA (then A mild uncon- of All these injuries, in some of the
sciousness is felt). After the brAin combAtAnts, lAter, there Are grAd-
concussion, the Athlete mAy return uAl chAnges in the brAin structure,
to sports Activities in ten to fifteen which ultimAtely cAuse the known
dAys, And compete, depending on the condition first described by dr.
severity of the injury, in two to mArtlAnd, followed by dr. cArrel,
three months. dr. muller, dr. jokl, dr. cAvA, As
well As mAny other sports doctors.
eye injuries Are very common in mAr- so todAy we usuAlly deAl with the
tiAl Arts. they cAn be different And post-trAumAtic encephAlopAthy of
their outcome depends on the type boxers.
of injury, As well As on vArious pos-
sible eArly And lAte complicAtions. some time Ago it wAs considered
the neck injuries, ie the cervicAl thAt this dAmAge wAs mostly con-
spine, Are Also not A rAre occur- nected only to boxers, but todAy it
rence. is known thAt the sAme dAmAge Af-
fects sAvAte fighters (french box-
if An Athlete fights without proper ing), kick boxing fighters, muAy
teeth protection thAt is prescribed, thAi fighters, mmA fighters
teeth, tongue, lips injuries And vAr- (ufc) As well As some other ones.
ious bone frActures, especiAlly the According to dr. steinhAus, even
lower jAw, mAy hAppen. one of the About 7% of All fighters (compet-
typicAl injuries of Athletes of vAri- itors) show signs of milder, And
ous mArtiAl Arts is the injury Above About 5% of the fighters Are signs
the eye known As the suprAorbitAl of chronic post-trAumAtic encephA-
Arch rupture. Also,vArious blows lopAthy. vArious experts in mArtiAl
in the nose cAn breAk the nAsAl bone Arts, for exAmple, vArious trAiners,
And the nAsAl cAvity. such repeAt- sports doctors, sports workers,
ed And incorrectly treAted injuries sports journAlists, And Athletes
deform the nose, resulting in A typi- themselves in vArious countries
cAl boxing nose. sometimes frequent hAve given this phenomenon or syn-
strokes in the eye cAuse An injury drome different, more or less de-
similAr to wrestling – othemAtomA scriptive nAmes. thus, for exAmple,
or deformAtion of the outer eAr. it in AmericA, the term punch drunks
hAs been Also found thAt with some Are used for the AppeArAnce of com-
Athletes, due to frequent heAd in- bAtAnts in the united stAtes, the
juries, As well As A greAter number germAns mention the nAme-we-
of eAr blows, this cAuses pArtiAl iche birne (soft peAr), the french-
heAring loss. d’ebriete trAumAtique (trAumAtic
Abhorrence).

during A long-stAnding sports cA- in the initiAl phAse of this injury
reer, some professionAl fighters in the person (contestAnt) hAs symp-
some mArtiAl Arts go through hun- toms like heAdAches, vomiting,
dreds of fights in which they gAin drowsiness etc. And during this
thousAnds of stronger or weAker first stAge the fighter Also shows
blows in their heAds. similArly, Al- significAnt chAnges in chArActer.
though something to A lesser ex- the fighter (contestAnt) grAduAl-

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