"Can I talk you into a cane at the very least? I'm scared to death you are going to fall and hurt yourself even further," Dr. Charles Dillard told McDonough, a 6-foot-2 senior at Benedictine. Krystina McDonough brought her 18-year-old son to the Traumatic Brain Injury/Concussion Clinic at the Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU in mid-September. Five weeks earlier, McDonough and another player collided helmet to helmet on the football field. Brett McDonough was in the hospital for three days and missed school for 2½ weeks. But Dillard, lead physician in the physical medicine and rehabilitation clinic, was not ready to let him walk on his own. "Right now, your brain is very...
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