What Causes Traumatic Brain Injury

It is hard to find any person that is not affected by a traumatic brain injury or stroke, whether they personally experienced the brain injury, or they know someone who was affected by a brain injury. Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are any injuries to the brain caused by a range of bumps, jolts, and even penetrations, which have a negative impact on normal function in the brain. Concussions may be considered mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) because the people experiencing concussions have shorter periods of amnesia or unconsciousness, than severe traumatic brain injuries do. The number of traumatic brain injuries between 2001-2010 in the emergency department has increased by 70%, while the number of deaths from traumatic brain injuries has decreased by 7%. The leading causes of TBI between 2006-2010 are as follows, in order of most prevalent: falls, unknown or other
Hemorrhagic is uncommon but usually results in death; this occurs when an aneurysm, a weakened blood vessel, in the brain bursts. Ischemic stroke is the more common form of stroke and occurs when there is a blood clot in one of the blood vessels leading to the brain (National Stroke Association, 2014). Strokes are an interesting topic to research because they are fairly frequently experienced. Due to how prevalent strokes are, it is helpful in terms of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation to understand the neural bases of stroke and the brain structure after a stroke. Specifically the differences in brain structure after a stroke compared with brain structures before a stroke. Obviously with the lack of blood being able to get to the brain, there is going to be some damage to different brain structures, which can be seen in the symptoms after a stroke. This literature review will discuss how knowing the differences in structures after Traumatic brain injuries and strokes can help with the rehabilitation of the patients with