How to Protect Yourself if you Can’t Fight or Run

What can you do if you are attacked, out-numbered, can’t fight, and can’t escape? How to protect your head and most of your body. What causes brain damage, and how to avoid it.

There is a person who moved to this country (Australia) because he thought it would be safer than where he was from. He was attacked about one month after his arrival. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time - like most attack victims. Also like most attack victims, he did not deserve what he was about to receive.Two of this planet’s lowest forms of scum approached him, it was at night, and he ended up on the ground with two low-life’s kicking him on his head. He woke up in hospital with brain damage. He could not walk or talk properly. After reading about the attack in a local newspaper, people, good people, wanted to help.

Floods of household items and money were delivered to the police station, handling the case. One lady has even given her time to help his wife and two kids. She cleans their house, does their shopping and whatever else she can do.

What can you do if you are attacked, out-numbered, can’t fight, and can’t escape?

All you can do is go into damage control mode. Drop to the ground before you are knocked out; lie down on you side and curl up into a ball. Turn your arms into a makeshift crash helmet and use them to protect your head. This is vitally important, to protect yourself, you MUST remain conscious, and that means protecting your head!

Protecting your head

To protect your head when you are on the ground and on your side, one arm should be on the side of your head and bent at the elbow. Use it like a pillow, between the side of your head and the ground. Position it so that your closed hand is protecting the back of your neck.This positioning will protect half of your face, half of your forehead, and the back of your neck and spine. The top of your head will be exposed, but it is pretty hard, so it will be able to take more than the sides, front, or back. Your other arm should be made to do the same job.

Your other arm will take most of the beating. Position it the same way as described above. Your upper arm should cover your ear; your elbow should be pointing forward and bent. Your hand should be closed into a fist to protect your fingers. But more importantly, your fist should be protecting the back of your neck and spine. That covers your head, but what about the rest of your body?

Protecting your face, throat, ribs, heart, lungs, stomach, and groin

Remember the first step: drop to the ground, lie down on you side and curl up into a ball. Curl up into a ball by lifting your legs up, bending at the knees, and tilting your head forward. Try to touch your chest with your chin, and your forehead with your knees. By using your arms as a crash helmet, your legs to protect most of your vital organs, and fragile body parts, you leave few vulnerable areas open.When lying on your side, with your legs bent up and close to your head, the side of you rib cage is exposed. If you are hit in this area, you will naturally want to move your arm and hand away from your head to protect that area. You have got to keep protecting your head – always! Instead, tense your body and roll over.There are two things you can do to protect the side of your body, without compromising your head defenses:Tense up, so that your stomach and waist muscles are tight. This will cause your body to become more solid, and you will feel less pain. You can tense up even if you are not being hit on the side of your rib cage - it will help.

The second thing you can do is roll over onto your back with you arms and legs still in their assigned positions. This position is much less secure, so keep rolling until you are on your other side, or roll back as soon as you can.

Hits to the side of your head

If you were in a car crash and you got brain damage, chances are that you were in a side on collision – tee-bone. Why? Because you brain will move sideways more than it will, forward or back. Also, there is less space between the side of your brain and the inside of your skull – it will hit the side more easily. When the side of your brain hits the inside of your skull - like any other part of your body - it will bruise. If the hit is hard enough, you will get brain damage.

When you are hit on the head, you will stop your brain from moving sideways by lying on your side. If you roll onto your back to protect your ribs, you can be kicked on the side of your head. As you now know, it’s the hits to the side with sideways movement that will do the most damage.

Damage control

If you are knocked unconscious, you will have no control over where you are being hit. You need to be consciously aware of where your attackers are, and what they are about to do to you. Try to control where you are being hit, so you don’t get any major damage. What I mean by major damage is long-term, permanent disabilities, or damage that causes your death. Protect the exposed and vulnerable areas.When you are on the ground and curled up in a ball, the back of your neck and spine is the most vulnerable area. Your upper, middle and lower back can cause problems. Your kidneys are also exposed.Concentrate on the exposed areas. Use your feet to turn your body around so that you don’t get hit more than once or twice in the same place. Try to take most of the hits on your legs. You must ignore the pain and concentrate on protecting yourself!

Coping With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.

Conclusion

At the end of the day, all you can do when there is nothing you can do is, go into damage control mode. Drop to the ground before you are knocked out; lie down on your side and curl up into a ball. Protect your head and do the best you can to protect your body. Stay conscious and control the damage.

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