Head and brain injuries often come with life changing consequences. As one of the most important organs in your body, any damage to your brain could have a lasting impact on the way you live your life and can also pose a risk to your health, both short and long term.
While cricket may be thought of as a slow paced game with limited action, it doesn’t mean that the risks are fewer. In a professional game of cricket, the ball can weigh in the region of 155.9g and 163g, and travel at speeds of up to 90mph. For the batsman standing in front of the ball, this can pose a huge danger of head and brain injury.
Cricket is one of many sports where wearing a helmet is compulsory, however moderate to serious head injuries are not uncommon and players are often subject to broken jaws, cracked skulls or concussion. While head injury fatalities are rare in cricket they do happen, with the most recent example being Australian cricketer Phil Hughes who passed away in hospital following a test match back in November. Read More
Lindsay Preston was only 18 when, during a driving lesson, she suffered 42% burns to her body including significant burns to her face, scalp, neck, right arm and both hands. In addition, she suffered multiple amputations to her fingers, various neurological injuries and a severe head injury.Lindsay was injured after the car she was driving during a professional driving lesson emerged from a junction into the path of an oncoming vehicle; it then burst in flames with …
