Concussion
Concussion
- Author/Seller
- Frankie Lipman
- SKU:
- 9781761067624
$33.00
The revealing, confronting and shocking story of how sports-related concussion and the damage it causes can change a person's life and the impact it has on their family.
This is the concussion book everyone has to read.
Concussion has become one of the biggest issues to face contact sports. Only in the past decade have the
consequences of repeated head knocks become better known, and the science is still rapidly catching up. For years,
people who have suffered repeated concussions had been called 'punch drunk' or 'in dreamland', a tacit recognition that
blows to the head suffered during their sporting careers led to permanent damage. But with the discovery of CTE, or
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, in the brains of deceased football players, it is now known that the onset of a form of
dementia, caused by repeated concussions, can strike people as young as those in their thirties and forties.
This is what has happened to Michael Lipman, a former rugby international who came out in public in 2018 as having had
a diagnosis of early-onset dementia and probable CTE.
With incredible courage and candour, Michael and his wife Frankie Lipman tell their story. For Michael, the damage was
already done before he met Frankie. He was a retired footballer in his late thirties, prone to some moments of bizarre
behaviour and memory loss when they fell in love. Since then, they have become parents together, during a period in
which Michael's challenges have grown and grown. They now face a future of living with Michael's degenerative brain
condition, and their purpose in writing this book is to give a wake-up call to contact sports and to parents with children
considering playing them.
Their book is a mix of personal story and scientific inquiry. As they have come to terms with Michael's condition, Frankie
has undertaken an exploration into the science of concussion in the effort to help him. Michael has become active also in
an ongoing class action in Britain by retired rugby players now facing the reality of life with early-onset dementia symptoms.
This is the concussion book everyone has to read.
Concussion has become one of the biggest issues to face contact sports. Only in the past decade have the
consequences of repeated head knocks become better known, and the science is still rapidly catching up. For years,
people who have suffered repeated concussions had been called 'punch drunk' or 'in dreamland', a tacit recognition that
blows to the head suffered during their sporting careers led to permanent damage. But with the discovery of CTE, or
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, in the brains of deceased football players, it is now known that the onset of a form of
dementia, caused by repeated concussions, can strike people as young as those in their thirties and forties.
This is what has happened to Michael Lipman, a former rugby international who came out in public in 2018 as having had
a diagnosis of early-onset dementia and probable CTE.
With incredible courage and candour, Michael and his wife Frankie Lipman tell their story. For Michael, the damage was
already done before he met Frankie. He was a retired footballer in his late thirties, prone to some moments of bizarre
behaviour and memory loss when they fell in love. Since then, they have become parents together, during a period in
which Michael's challenges have grown and grown. They now face a future of living with Michael's degenerative brain
condition, and their purpose in writing this book is to give a wake-up call to contact sports and to parents with children
considering playing them.
Their book is a mix of personal story and scientific inquiry. As they have come to terms with Michael's condition, Frankie
has undertaken an exploration into the science of concussion in the effort to help him. Michael has become active also in
an ongoing class action in Britain by retired rugby players now facing the reality of life with early-onset dementia symptoms.
