Concussions -- Suffering Through Recovery

Concussions have slowed the return of athletes, even ended their careers. Now as the world watches and waits for the return of the Pittsburgh Penguins' Sidney Crosby, researchers are learning more about why some athletes are taking months to recover from even noncontact concussions. The key lies in the finely-tuned system in the brain that helps make elite athletes so successful. ESPN injury analyst and licensed physical therapist Stephania Bell reports on vestibular concussions and takes us on the long, slow journey to recovery of Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts. Host Bob Ley will discuss the topic with Dr. Robert Cantu and former MLS MVP Taylor Twellman, whose career ended due to vestibular concussion symptoms.

"Lonely -- there's some very dark times. There's some times where these things can take you to really bad places, where you're sitting in a room and you don't know what's up and what's down, and what's ever going to be normal again and what's not." -- Brian Roberts, Baltimore Orioles second baseman, on the recovery process

"When I first saw Brian, he had very classic symptoms of someone who is going to have a hard time recovering from concussion. He was foggy, he was dizzy, he was tired, he was having headaches." -- Dr. Micky Collins, specialist at the University of Pittsburgh's Sports Medicine Concussion Program

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