is a brain injury that occurs in infancy. This injury is most common in preterm babies but can still happen in full term babies as well. 75% of preterm babies with Periventricular Leukomalacia will have some kind of disability. Many people do not know what causes this‚ how this is diagnosed‚ what the treatment is and the outcome of the infants affected by this. This paper will give insight to what causes Periventricular Leukomalacia and what happens to an infant who has this brain injury. Many
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Traumatic Brain Injury During the recent Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts‚ Severe Traumatic Brain Injuries (sTBI) were a large portion of the wounded or deaths among Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and Allies. Pannell et al. (2011) analytical study of CAF soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan from January 2006-April 2008‚ concluded most common causes of deaths deemed preventable during the Afghanistan conflict of CAF members were hemorrhage (38%)‚ neurologic injury (33%) and blast injuries (16%). Neurological
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enough‚ but sadly‚ there are concerns to tend to after things cool down. There are many types of injuries you could sustain from a car accident. In a few fortunate instances‚ nothing really happens aside from a few scrapes as well as a big scare‚ but other less fortunate accidents have severe repercussions. The most prevalent ones are detailed below. Whiplash injury ranks as the most common personal injury sustained from automobile crashes‚ and all traffic accidents for that matter. It isn’t as serious
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Michael Dodgson NVQ 3 Adult Health and Social Care. Unit 4222.387 1.1 Define Acquired brain injury. An Acquired brain injury (ABI) is a term that’s used to describe an injury to the brain that has happened after birth‚ it is not possible to be born with an ABI but this can happen during the birthing process as it is not genetic or congenital. 1.2 Describe possible causes of acquired brain jury. There are various ways that you can get an ABI‚ such as traumatic accidents illness’s and
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Traumatic Brain Injury: Practices and Services for Support Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has often been referred to as the silent epidemic. Many of the signs and symptoms of the injury often go unnoticed and often take months or years to appear. TBI as define by IDEA and Broward County is described as: A traumatic brain injury means an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment
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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 pass out or forget
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Dementia awareness -CU238P What is dementia? Dementia is a gradual loss of brain functions. The most common form of dementia is caused by Alzheimer’s disease but there are many other forms of dementia including: alcohol related dememtias‚vascular dementia‚ frontotemporal dementias and Lewy body dementia. Key functions of the brain that are affected by dementia. Each case of dementia is different. The area of the brain affected will depend on the type of dementia. Dementia can affect every area
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P3/M2/D1 Ligament injuries The dictionary definition of a ligament is ‘’ A short band of tough‚ flexible‚ fibrous connective tissue that connects two bones or cartilages or holds together a joint.’’ This basically means a ligament is a connective tissue that unlike a tendon which connects muscle to bone a ligament connects bone and also stabilised a joint. When someone damages a ligament it’s called a sprain. An example of a ligament injury is an ACL injury (Anterior cruciate ligament injury). This type
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PERCEIVING SENSATIONS (A REACTION PAPER ON TEST YOUR BRAIN: PERCEPTION) Fourth of May 2015‚ Professor of General Psychology Annabel Choy presented a roughly 45-minute documentary to us‚ her students in section C1‚ concerning how the human brain interprets the various kinds of sensations it receives from the different sense organs of the human body. The storyline of the documentary revolves around the concepts regarding how our brains perceive our surroundings; how they process visual (eyes)‚ auditory
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350 Week 5 Discussion Question 1 Brain Injury shows the solutions to the following problems: View the Brain Injury video: What can the brain do to repair itself after traumatic injury? What does the recovery of the brain typically depend on? How does therapy facilitate in the restoration of lost brain function? Are there any other approaches‚ besides physical therapy that could assist in regaining the brain function lost from a traumatic brain injury? Your initial post should be a minimum
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