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Symptoms, this is when things need to get evaluated, you need to go to the emergency department and get looked at and maybe get some imaging to see if you have a skull fracture or if you have some bleeding. if you're not -- if you're tired or if you're maybe on some medications, for example, blood thinners, this can increase your risk for bleeding into your brain after hitting your head. >> and, you know, i can't help but think of the natasha richardson case, she hit her head skiing, she felt like she was okay. she would go lay down and that's one of the things you don't do. in his case, perha...

Yourself from a similar injury. >> reporter: formula one champ michael schumacher is used to danger at 200 miles an hour. but skiing the french alps on sunday, he fell, slamming his head on a rock. severely injured but reportedly still conscious and moving when he reached the hospital 90 minutes later. >> it's extremely common for a person to be initially awake after a head trauma, even a substantial head trauma. >> reporter: his condition rapidly spiraled, rushed in to emergency surgery and put in to a coma. doctors say schumacher would have died on the slope if he hadn't been wearing a helme...

>> reporter: formula one champ michael schumacher is used to danger at 200 miles an hour. but skiing the french alps on sunday, he fell, slamming his head on a rock. severely injured but reportedly still conscious and moving when he reached the hospital 90 minutes later. >> it's extremely common for a person to be initially awake after a head trauma, even a substantial head trauma. >> reporter: his condition rapidly spiraled, rushed in to emergency surgery and put in to a coma. doctors say schumacher would have died on the slope if he hadn't been wearing a helmet. a record number of u.s. skier...