I like to watch videos of people fighting from time to time and kept seeing videos of people getting put to sleep via jaw shot. How does this work? How does the brain immediately go unconscious like that? What causes the brain to shut off so quickly?
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there’s two ways:
1- the bouncing force is so hard that it jars the head so quickly that the cranial fluid cannot cushion the blow. this causes the brain to bounce off the skull and result in brain damage
2- the concussive blow is so hard on the brain steam/nervous system that it literally ‘shocks’ it off temporarily
(rare 3) – you can hit the arteries on the side of the neck hard enough to temporarily cause enough blood cut off to ko some one (usually seen with wheel or heel kicks, or karate chop style strikes)
im a bit of an mma nerd. also i super generalized some stuff here for the eli5 factor.
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