{"id":5315,"date":"2018-12-10T10:09:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T15:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5315"},"modified":"2018-12-10T16:25:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:25:26","slug":"why-did-i-get-a-concussion-ice-skating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/10\/why-did-i-get-a-concussion-ice-skating\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did I get a concussion ice skating :(?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5298\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5298\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5298\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-12-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"Why did I get a concussion ice skating :(?\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-12-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-12-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-12.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why did I get a concussion ice skating :(?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oh,\u00a0so sorry to hear that! But you asked why: If you&#8217;re going to get a concussion, &#8220;unintentional fall&#8221; is the likeliest cause, and it&#8217;s certainly easy to fall unintentionally while skating. I didn&#8217;t find stats on skating college students, but 13% of high schoolers who played sports in 2017 had suffered at least one concussion. (BC only: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/statista-concussions\">bit.ly\/statista-concussions<\/a>) So you, if you ask around, you&#8217;ll find you have a lot of company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh,\u00a0so sorry to hear that! But you asked why: If you&#8217;re going to get a concussion, &#8220;unintentional fall&#8221; is the likeliest cause, and it&#8217;s certainly easy to fall unintentionally while skating. I didn&#8217;t find stats on skating college students, but 13% of high schoolers who played sports in 2017 had suffered at least one concussion. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/10\/why-did-i-get-a-concussion-ice-skating\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why did I get a concussion ice skating :(?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5352,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions\/5352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}