He thought it would blow over, now Rik has been living with constant pain for almost four years: ‘But I keep hope’

A headbutt during a football match turns the life of Rik Hoogendoorn (28) completely upside down. What starts as a ‘mild concussion’ turns out to be the starting signal of years of chronic headaches, loss of work and a difficult search for recovery. “I wake up every day with a bit of a headache, at the end of the day it’s unbearable.”

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