Ronda Rousey reveals A terrifying episode that lived during his career in the UFC that continues to affect today. Actually, it was more than a chapter, rather the reason for her retirement as a fighter. AND Dana Whitepresident of the company, was key in it. The “Rowdy” tells everything in the podcast UNTAPPED.
► Ronda Rousey, Dana White and a neurological study
«Fortunately, now I have much more information about what was happening to me, and I felt that it could not be honest about what I was piercing physically without people thinking they were putting excuses. And I also felt that no one owed an explanation, especially if they were going to throw shit about that. So yes, I first needed to find out what was happening.
Recently, Dana sent me to a long -term neurological study for fighters, and we really achieved – I don't want to call it 'advances', but If we could diagnose many of the things that were happening to me (and that still happen to me)and I just didn't have that information at that time … I couldn't give me that information at that time, you know? And now I can explain it better. I do not torment with that. It was the best I could do with what I had.
These are brain shocks, but we also discover that it has a lot to do with migraines … Epilepsy is hereditary in my family. My sister, my uncle, my grandmother. In each generation, someone is epileptic, and there is a relationship between epilepsy and migraines. When I was a child, I used to have migraines. I had to use a imitrex pen that I had to inject, do you understand me? If I felt that a … I lost great vision portions. They are called 'auras', and lost the ability to read, and they gave me these unbearable headaches … but they stopped appearing when I was younger.
Speaking to Dr. Charles Bernick, I think, at the Cleveland Clinic, he told me that people suffering from migraines are more susceptible to brain shocks. And the more shocks you have, the easier it is that the impacts activate a migraine. And he explained that not all migraines include sharp headache. That part is not always present. So what we believe I was happening is that I entered a cycle where, the more they hit me, the easier it was for those impacts to trigger episodes of migraine.
And in these fights … it turns out that two of my triggers are the bright lights and the blows on the head. So they hit me, and basically lost great parts of my vision, my perception of depth and my ability to follow movements quickly and make decisions in a second fraction – basically everything I need. I thought I had a brain shock, which was 'outside' although I was not staggering or lost my balance.
I had to retire because this happened to me more and more frequently. To the point that a simple jab left me almost blind. And he (the doctor) believes that what happens is that, due to all the previous shocks, now these impacts are activating migraine episodes, which means that my neurons are overexcited and then turns off …
This could change everything, because there may be solutions. I thought I was just going to deteriorate until I was, I don't know, doing it. Great, right? I thought: 'This is my life now, I have to stop this or I will accelerate it.'
And now, thanks to all this information, I will start seeing specialists in migraines and neurologists who could really help me treat this. This kind of thing felt that if I mentioned them, people would think they were only inventing excuses. But now that I am receiving help and diagnosis and all that, I feel more hopeful than ever.
And instead of thinking: 'Well, this is part of the process, I just have to retire before I get worse,' Now I think there is something I can do to improve. So, yes, I just didn't have this information before. I didn't know what to say, beyond: 'Something happens to me and I can't continue fighting for that.' “
