>> So really, when it comes to recognizing concussion, you know, it takes a team.
It takes not only the healthcare providers who happen to be around, but it takes the coaches
and the teammates and the parents, everybody who is involved with the athletes.
And so education is immensely important in bringing the awareness of the injury
to everybody involved because that's where it starts to make a difference.
And so we developed our educational module with the express purpose of raising the bar
of knowledge across the spectrum of everybody who has to take care of this injury.
>> I had one specific hit where I hit the opponent
across from me, and it was head to head.
My head was down, and after that, I was -- I wasn't quite myself.
Through the game, I played the game.
Coach asked me, you know, are you all right?
You know? Of course, I'm all right, you know?
I felt like I had -- you know, my bell was rung.
I knew that.
You know, I knew I hit my head.
A little -- maybe a little dizzy, but other than that, you know, I just had my bell rung.
It's no big deal.
I'm going to finish out the game.
Everyone around me was telling me, that, you know, there's something not quite right.
But I was thinking, no, I'm fine.
Who are you -- you know?
I'm fine. I'm playing.
I'm fine. You know?
I really started noticing the after effects within that night into the next morning.
I was dizzy.
My head was throbbing, just multiple amounts of pain just from everywhere.
It wasn't just one specific.
It was my head was hurting.
I was irritable.
I couldn't quite -- concentration wasn't quite on.
Emotionally, I was just -- I was like a rollercoaster, you know?
Which isn't me.
>> We simply thought that a concussion was basically a headache
or you had to be knocked out.
We didn't --