The Fencing Response Compilation Video

"You go out; your hands go up."

The fencing response is an unnatural position of the arms following a concussion. Immediately after moderate forces have been applied to the brainstem, the forearms are held flexed or extended (typically into the air) for a period lasting up to several seconds after the impact. The Fencing Response is often observed during athletic competition involving contact, such as football, hockey, rugby, boxing and martial arts. It is used as an overt indicator of injury force magnitude and midbrain localization to aid in injury identification and classification for events including, but not limited to, on-field and/or bystander observations of sports-related head injuries.

For more information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing_response or google search "fencing response"

Source: Hosseini, A. H., and J. Lifshitz. Brain Injury Forces of Moderate Magnitude Elicit the Fencing Response. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 41, No. 9, pp. 1687--1697, 2009.

Audio: Rob Dougan - Clubbed to Death (Kurayamino Variation)

This video is intended for educational purposes. It aims to broaden public awareness of traumatic brain injuries as well as physical indicators of such head injuries, especially with respect to those occurring with high-contact sports. All clips were gathered from the YouTube public domain.

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[dragos7puri]

I want to thank you uploader for the video. Not only is it educational and I feel like I learned something important today but it is also artistic in a sense.

Thank you.

[TheBigCookie424]

@dragos7puri

Thanks for the kind feedback!

[vetgypsy]

thank you for this highly educational video. I didn't know what a fencing response was, but when I saw the hit that Nathan Horton took in the Stanley Cup and the way his arms were just frozen in the air...that image froze in my brain as very, very bad. When I saw it again from Donald Jones after the hit he got in the Bills-Broncos game, I finally did some research and found this video. More people need to see this.

[TheBigCookie424]

@vetgypsy

Agreed. This video was made so that it would be easier to "spread the word" about concussions and the fencing response. If seeing enough of these responses will "freeze" the negative association of fencing in your brain, then I have done my job!

[TheBigCookie424]

@asistancepleaseyes

It's hard to fall correctly when you're not conscious. Most of the concussions come from impact before falling.

[TheBigCookie424]

@cclose27

It was tough deciding on the music for this video. Rob Dougan was selected because he took a classical piece (which I was thinking about because I wanted something instrumental without lyrics) in Elgar's Enigma Variations and modernized/intensified it. I made the selection based on the juxtaposition between the morose orchestral intro/interlude/outro and the high-impact bass-and-drum segments to emphasize both the traumatic nature and violent impact of the injuries for both...

[MrRyan158]

what a wanker on part 5:03

[cwseet]

great compilation!

[MNico1992]

i havent watched the rest of the video but i gotta say the blue-shirted dude in the first clip is a scumbag. i would never be able to just leave someone like that after knocking them out, even if it was on accident. to hell with the game, at least pretend to give a shit about whether or not the guy is okay.

[hairesonyourchest]

Moral of the story: Don't play Football.

[shiron236]

@HillbillyPrince I've seen the hit before. More like double paralysis. It's not a fencing response at all.

[BMeister22]

Thumbs up if Tim Tebow brought you here. His is at 7:32.

[tphillpot]

thank u for this video would like more please 

[TheHunted113]

hahahaha



[TimbobJames]

Is it really that hard to watch?

[OxfordComma1019]

That was difficult to watch, but I'm glad I did. Good to know this sort of thing.