I had a sparring session last week and my partner threw a hook and I turned the last second and was accidentally hit behind the head. It hurt for less than a second, and I continued the session feeling fine. The next day though I kind of felt a pain in the back of my head but not much else. I figured I would just sleep it off, but it is still here a week later. I don’t feel fuzzy or concussed or anything, I’ve been working, socializing, and editing a book just fine, but the pain is still there. It feels like a constant mini headache in the lower back area of my head. I asked a pro at my gym about it and he said that it’s a migraine, and that this type of stuff just comes with the territory of taking boxing seriously. I haven’t went back to the gym since I started feeling this, but should I be worried? Is this feeling normal?
would definitely go get checked out at hospital and hold off on sparring for at least a week or two after the pain goes a light headache the day of/after sparring on the front half of your head no biggie, just again hold off on sparring for a week (unless your some top contender?), back of the head a week after makes me nervous....just my two cents! re what the pro said, yeah headaches/pain are part and parcel of boxing but I would still take them all seriously/take precaution etc
Yeah, something similar happened some time ago. I was sparring regularly for months with very little rest days and felt fuzzy after a session so I took a month off. It was a break well needed and I’ve probably gone the last 8 or 9 months with sparring and training regularly with no issues, and then this happens. The only good thing I can say is that in the beginning the pain was constant but the past few days it’s been on and off. Yesterday I hardly felt it at all until I was about to go to bed and it came back again.
I once got caught on the temple, ear area with a hook, I thought I got them with a good right and stopped to see if they were okay (I should have rolled out to my right first) but he was fine, I missed my mark and a left hook found the side of my noggin high on my head, weird feeling for a day or two around the area but very faint and undramatic, cleared up fast... @Pat M and @greynotsoold might have ideas if you go to the doctor he'll tell you anything to stop you being hit in the head anymore lol.
BTW what were you doing to get away from that left hook to be hit there? did you literally just turn away from it? I can't picture it but if you describe how it happened I might have an answer to prevent being hit there again.
yeah I guess a doctor probably would but still there's a difference between the temple and back of head which is the key thing i think rather than just a bit of pain also sounds like he flinched/ moved to face away when seeing the hook come in
Of course there is a difference, but the point was sometimes it may just not feel right that something is “tender” and it may come good.
It wasn’t a hard session and I was trying new things. I attempted to roll under his hook last second and get an angle but I did it incorrectly and accidentally got caught in that area. The fact that we weren’t even going hard and I still feel the affects days later just shows how serious rabbit punches are.
Mocking around with a buddy of mine showing off my head movement got me hit in the back to the head by accident… I felt it for the rest of the day. Check your DM’s.