Case #1 — ICA cervical
Lived experience, not medical guidance. This is one grappler’s anonymized report, shared with consent and moderated before publication. It cannot tell you what is safe for you.
- Artery segment
- ICA cervical
- Mechanism
- Choke
- Treatment
- Antiplatelet
- Outcome
- Recovering
- Age range at time of injury
- 41–45
- Sex
- Male
- Years of grappling experience
- 1–3
- Belt rank at time of injury
- White
- Month and year of injury
- June 2026
- Time from injury to diagnosis
- 1–4 weeks
- Presenting symptoms
- None — found incidentally
- Months until return to training (if returned)
- 3 months
Imaging findings
dissection with pseudoaneurysm on CTA