Logan Coleridge was used to taking hits in football. He'd been playing since he was 6 years old and had sustained several concussions . But after a helmet-to-helmet impact during his freshman year of high school in August 2023, he started having debilitating symptoms.

The New Jersey teen said he was very dizzy and had trouble balancing. His memory was "terrible," and he had a "severe" light sensitivity, he said, along with "terrible headaches." Previously a strong student, he now struggled to focus in the classroom and couldn't remember school assignments or what he read in class.

"I've got concussions in my past, and it wasn't like a normal one," Logan said. "I knew it was something else."

Logan Coleridge (#9) on the field. Becky and Barry Coleridge

More alarmingly, Logan wasn't

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