Is it possible to sustain a brain injury without hitting your head?
Physics dictates how the force and effects of an incident translate and transmit into the brain and its associated structures. So, yes, your head does not need to hit anything to cause an injury. For example, military studies show that blast injuries alone can change the structures of the brain.
You don't even have to be going very fast to sustain an injury. A significant amount of force can still be transmitted to the brain, such as when being struck by a very slow-moving bus.
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