A healthy brain will dictate Macartney's return to racingNine days post-injury, and he still has symptoms:...the injury Macartney sustained in a scary crash during the Hahnenkamm downhill Jan. 19 at Kitzbühel was a severe concussion — and the only thing that can fully heal a bruised brain is time and rest. A lot of rest. Doctors have instructed the 30-year-old U.S. Ski Team veteran downhiller to rest and let his brain heal.
"The medical team at USSA will measure Macartney’s brain function and alertness with impact tests built around the baseline test Macartney took when he was 100 percent healthy. Six days after the accident, in which Macartney crashed off the final jump of the Streif course and banged his head multiple times on the icy track and losing consciousness, he was battling a slight headache and a general feeling of cloudiness.“It’s an overall feeling of cloudiness, not as sharp on the recollection of certain people’s names,” Macartney said. “[I’m] going through things and saying, ‘oh yeah, what was that thing I was just talking about half an hour ago.’ A lot of that stuff is still not 100 percent.”
