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.”
Becky and Barry Coleridge 
More alarmingly, Logan wasn’t getting better. Several months of physical therapy had no effect, said Becky Coleridge, Logan’s mom. A neurologist who had been treating Logan since his diagnosis with abdominal migraines the year before prescribed two medications, both of which had negative side effects. An orthopedic doctor suggested looking at his neck. Other practitioners had no answers. Coleridge wanted doctors to prescribe an MRI, but wasn’t able to get one. Meanwhile, Logan was missing school almost every week. Over-the-counter medications couldn’t dull the headaches, and they were becoming more frequent.
In early spring 2024, Logan was able to see a concussion specialist after a particularly bad headache kept him from going to school.
“The first thing he said was ‘Nobody’s given this kid an MRI?'” Becky Coleridge remembered. The specialist prescribed the scan, as well as an X-ray of Logan’s neck. The Coleridges thought the scans might show Logan had an issue with his occipital nerve, which runs from the neck to the scalp.
The results were much harder to hear: Logan was diagnosed with an arteriovenous malformation, or AVM. It was a condition that he and his parents had never heard of before.
“Everything we read was very scary,” Becky Coleridge said. “At that moment, we realized the danger he had been in.”
Becky and Barry Coleridge 
What is an arteriovenous malformation?
An AVM is an abnormal tangle of blood vessels in the brain, said Dr. Andrew Russman, head of the Cleveland Clinic’s stroke program, who was not involved…
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