Amauter Boxing and brain damage....

Very, very rare. The kind of gloves used; coupled with the rules of amateur boxing and the headgear; seem to prevent a lot of the damage that can occur in pro boxing.

 

I was at an amatuer tournament in Austin about ten years ago when a kid died from a brain injury and I remember one kid collapsing after winning a tournament and dying a short while later from a brain injury.


My dr. tells me I show some symptoms of brain damage; short term memory loss, poor concentration and the left side of my body is considerably smaller and weaker than the right side of my body.

 

Wow, that's some heavy ****..:shock:

Anyone got numbers how many people died in amateur boxing?

 

Left side of your body weaker than the right?
How does that work to do with your brain?

 

http://www.usaboxing.org/100.htm

 

A left hook, LoL.
Most likely to have sustained damage to the right hemisphere (responsible for controlling the left side of the body).
The brain will rewire itself to compensate for the damaged half. However this creates a higher dependancy on the left hemisphere, creating a bias in terms of coordination and strength to the right side of the body. The damaged side will become less used and so will its corresponding body control.

Dammit Butch, do you still want to keep up Boxing? That does not bode well.

 

As far as I gather Butch is of the old school in that he trained and fought badly/too much and at the time thought nothing of it, but suffers today.
Am I right? No offense meant by it, but from your other posts I've understood this.

 

I can't be entirely sure it's from boxing or even if I actually do have brain dammage. I was advised to see a neurologist but I haven't done that. It's just some observations my doc made. Besides, cracking up a dirt bike, getting beaned with a baseball and a couple of seasons of high school football going head to head probably could have contributed more to any damage, if I do have any, than boxing.

Sometimes I will get up to do something and forget what it was that I was going to do a few steps after I start going.:huh

A few guys I knew were pro boxers and had or were starting to show signs of Parkinson's, Terry Daniels and Polo Saucedo but they were in a lot more fights than I ever was in.

I boxed from 1976 through 2001 off and on.

 

I still think amateur boxers getting some kind of brain damage is very very rare.
I've known people with a hundred+ amateur fights and have had no problem.
I myself have has 79 amateur fights and I have no medical problems, except things I've had before boxing.

 

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My mom made an interesting point that I had not thought about, Alzheimer's disease is prevalent in my family so I might be more susceptible than most to those kind of problems.

The most common injury to boxers, pros and amatuers is eye injuries.

 

I hate them eye injuries.

 

I dont think brain damage in the Ams is a veryt big prob... in Australia there are alot more serious injuries in football then Am boxing....

but man dont let the possible injuries stop u from boxing.. ya gotta do what ya want... theres heaps of risks of serious injury in just about anything anyojne does but we all still do them..

 

I would've thought a broken nose would be?

Isn't that like a prerequisite for every competing boxer?