Description

This week we have an interview with Chris Martin. Chris has a story of training BJJ and unknowingly receiving damage to his neck. This damage would later result in a stroke. This interview helps create awareness of strokes and how to train BJJ safely.

We talk about:

• How training BJJ caused an injury to his neck that ultimately caused a stroke
• What happens when someone gets a torn carotid artery
• How younger people get strokes
• Some ways to tell if someone is having a stroke
• FASTER Face, Arms, Stability, Talking, Eyes, React
• How he trains with a stent in his neck
• What causes damage to the neck and the arteries
• The latest news for BJJ4Change

Links:

• What is a stroke?
• Types of strokes
• Stroke Symptoms: From Fast to Faster
• BJJ4Change

Quote of the week: "Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow." Dwight Eisenhower

Article of the week: Level up with Positional Sparring

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