......it is carefully placed with surgery, and the control device that it is connected to is then implanted just under the skin just like a pacemaker. It could be incredibly damaging to get punched there, and may result In it having to be replaced....either just the device or perhaps even the probes in the brain if there was enough force from a punch to dislocate the wires along the subcutaneous portion of the wires that travel up the neck.
And the first placement usually the best since there is no prior scar tissue, etc.
I strongly sympathize with Kevin Faulk.