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What can cause concussion
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Text appears: “AIMS Games 2019”
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Text appears: “What can cause concussion?”
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Boy 1 at the AIMS event
Boy 1 – “Maybe you fall over and hit your head.”
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Girl 1 at the AIMS event
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Girl 1 – “If something were to wear to fall on your head or you were to bang your head on something then you'd probably get a concussion."
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Girl 2 at the AIMS event
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Girl 2 – “When you fall over like, if you are not wearing a helmet when you're riding your bike.”
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Girl 3 at the AIMS event
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Girl 3 – “Concussions can happen from anything, can happen from falling too hard somewhere that causes a massive shock to the brain massive moving to the brains”
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Couple of girls at the AIMS event
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Girl 4 – “In netball if like someone like bowls you over and you whack your head on the ground”
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Boy 2 at the AIMS event
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Boy 2 – “Getting tripped up on the netball court”
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Couple of girls at the AIMS event
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Girl 5 – “If you fall over”
Girl 6 – “Getting tackled hard and hit the head”
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Girl 7 at the AIMS event
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Girl 7 – “Like you can fall on your head something could hit your head”
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Girl 8 at the AIMS event
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Girl 8 – “Tripping over or banging heads with someone else”
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ACC SportSmart website address under the text
Accsportsmart.co.nz
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