Head injury Any trauma to the scalp‚ skull or brain‚ TBI. Head trauma includes an alteration in consciousness‚ no matter how brief. Common causes: motor vehicle crashes and falls. Firearm‚ assaults‚ sports-related injuries‚ recreational accidents. Deaths occur at three points in time after injury: 1) Immediately 2) within 2 hours 3) 3 weeks after the injury GCS on arrival is also a strong predictor of survival: GCS < 8 30% to 70% chance of survival. GCS > 8 indicating >90% survival. Neurological
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Fluid Percussion Brain Injury (FPI) Model – Miami: Animals were anesthetized (70% N2O‚ 1-3% isoflurane‚ and 30% O2) 24 hr prior to injury and surgically prepared for parasagittal FPI as described previously.19 Briefly‚ a craniotomy (4.8 mm) was performed at 3.8 mm posterior to bregma and 2.5 mm lateral to midline. A plastic injury tube was placed over the exposed dura and affixed to the skull with adhesive and dental acrylic. The scalp was then sutured closed‚ and the animals were allowed to recover
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The article “The Effect of Protective Headgear on Head Injuries and Concussions in Adolescent Football (Soccer) Players” by J. Scott Delaney‚ Ammar Al-Kashmiri‚ R. Drummond‚ and J. A. Correa‚ the authors examine the effectiveness of protective headgear in teenage athletes. For their study they focused on the Oakville Soccer Club in Oakville‚ Canada‚ using soccer players ages 12-17. The athletes were to fill out a questionnaire examining their 2006 season‚ asking information about concussions they
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placement within a rehabilitation ward as part of my common foundation year The ward environment I was working on was a very relaxed‚ small and intimate ward for individuals needing intense rehabilitation due to or following a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The ward consisted of an eight bedded in patient facility with a 200+ out patient facility. Based on the ward was a full multi-discipline team consisting of nursing staff‚ occupational therapists‚ speech and language therapists‚ psychologists
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SPINAL CORD INJURY CASE STUDY 2 Abstract This spinal cord injury case is about my 50 year old brother named Kevin that fell off our mother’s roof and fractured his vertebra at the T5-T9 level. He is now a paraplegic that has come to live with my family. What is his functional level to this day? What are the capabilities and functional limitations
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Concussion‚ a mild traumatic brain injury‚ it may leave you temporarily unconscious and an aftereffect that will leave you confused and incapacity. These head injuries can be caused by violent blows to the head or can also be described as a violent shaking of the head or body. Since studies on head injuries have increased over the past years there has been a lot of attention on concussions‚ how they can be prevented and the affect that it has on the brain. The attention has been so high that the
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the body and the brain. A spinal cord injury is of course devastating‚ because it can have such long lasting effects. The spinal cord is so important to the body’s overall ability to function that any injury to this area can be debilitating. Of course‚ the type and severity of the spinal cord injury will affect the long-term outlook of an injury victim. Two Types of Spinal Cord Injuries: There are two basic categories when it comes to spinal cord injuries. They are either classified as incomplete
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Spinal Cord Injury Report: Complete Paraplegia of Frances F. Introduction: The spinal cord is an important structure for the communication between the body and the brain since it containing the spinal nerves that are in charge of the motor and sensory pathways. Therefore‚ a spinal cord injury (SCI) can affect the pathways of these motor and sensory signals depending on the location of the lesion (Kirshblum‚ Burns‚ Biering-Sorensen‚ Donovan‚ Graves‚ Jha‚ & Waring‚ 2011). A 38-year-old female patient
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traumatic brain injury? Do you know what causes traumatic brain injuries? The most common traumatic brain injury is a concussion. One of the most common causes of a traumatic brain injury is not wearing a helmet. Traumatic brain injuries caused by not wearing a helmet can ruin your life and cost you lots of money. A concussion can ruin your life for forever and a day. “According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ 1.7 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury each year in the
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there might be an impairment in their arousal when someone suffers a brain injury‚ thus‚ having an effect on the role of recovery in relearning a motor skill (Goldfine & Schiff‚ 1). In athletes who have suffered a concussion‚ they might have problems with arousal. Concussions often occur frequently in sports such as lacrosse or football and can change the ability for arousal for certain athletes. Knowing this‚ it will help me in trying to figure out what best ways to get the athlete’s arousal up
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