All head injuries are potentially serious because they can damage the brain and make someone lose responsiveness. The severity of a head injury depends on how someone hit their head and how hard the impact was. A head injury may cause damage to the brain tissue or to blood vessels inside the skull‚ or even break the skull (a skull fracture). Clear fluid or watery blood leaking from the ear or nose‚ and a deteriorating level of response‚ are some of the signs of serious injury. The severity of a
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traumatic brain injury may be classified based upon severity‚ which in turn may determine the prognosis of recovery. Severity types include mild‚ moderate‚ or severe. Mild traumatic brain injury is commonly known as a concussion. These types of injuries are often seen in sports. Concussions are defined in terms of the duration of confusion or loss of consciousness‚ which may not exceed 30 minutes (Traumaticbraininjury.com‚ n.d.a). Prognosis is good with these types of injuries‚ although patients
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Traumatic Brain Injury or Head Injury A head injury occurs as a result of trauma to the scalp‚ skull or brain. Head injuries are classified as closed‚ in which there is no cut or laceration to the skin‚ or penetrating‚ in which the skin and/or bone of the skull is broken. Traumatic brain injuries range from mild (called mild traumatic brain injury) to severe. The symptoms of a head injury may occur immediately following trauma‚ or they may develop slowly over several hours or days. Specific types
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Sport injuries are universal and can be commonly found everywhere. These injuries can include a concussion‚ bone fractures or strains on muscles. Often‚ these injuries can be minor; however‚ these injuries contain the chance to be more serious and dangerous. Prevention of the sports injuries is the best way of combating it. Nerves located outside the brain and spine are less protected and are subject to injury during competitive sports causing this loss in memory and concentration. Altogether‚ sports
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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can occur frequently and may cause serious damage. TBI can happen when a bump‚ jolt‚ blow‚ or any head injury causes damage to the brain. MIllions of people a year suffer brain injuries in the United States alone. More than half of those million incidents require the patient to be taken to a hospital because of the severity of the injury. Depending on how severe the injury is‚ it could cause serious brain damage and potentially be life threatening. Half of all TBIs occur
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pleasure from it‚ employees make a living from it‚ and the community as a whole feels a sense of belonging form it. This being said‚ the moral burden of expanding the knowledge of long-term injury risks and coming up with a solution for this issue falls upon everyone. The prevalent issue in long-term injury in professional sports today is concussions‚ and the overwhelming scientific evidence that repeated blows to the head lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). In the past‚ this was known
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Traumatic Brain Injury Definition Traumatic brain injuries differ from other disabilities in that it’s an acquired condition‚ typically the result of a blow to the head or the head colliding with a solid object that causes the brain to impact the inside of the individual’s skull. This condition can also be the result of an object piercing the skull‚ eyes‚ or nose and entering the brain tissue. This type of injury can result in hematomas (ruptured blood vessels) and/or contusions (bruising of brain
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Researchers at the VA Boston Healthcare System found that 87 out of 91 deceased former NFL football players showed signs of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). A concussion is an injury that disrupts the normal functioning of the brain. Your brain is surrounded by spinal fluid to cushion it from your hard skull. If you are hit hard your brain may hit your skull and become injured. There may be no visible signs of a concussion at all. The symptoms of a concussion vary from each person. Some may
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recovery from traumatic brain injury? Wednesday‚ 13 July 2011 Answered by: Dr Rajas Deshpande M.D. (Medicine)‚ D.M. (Neurology) Fellowship in Multiple Sclerosis (UWO Canada) Fellowship in Movement Disorders (UWO Canada) Consultant Neurologist Q. My 41 years old relative had traumatic brain injury due to an accident last month. Since then he is in the vegetative state. MRI indicates acute infarction in bilateral superior cerebellum and diffuse axonal injury. His present status: eye response:
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brain injury emotions can be hard to control. A traumatic brain injury can change the way people feel or express emotions. A person may experience bouts of laughing or crying‚ which have nothing to do with how the person is actually feeling.
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