Focal and diffuse brain injury

Concussion awareness is so important when it comes to not having a really safe helmet it could be the one thing keeping you safe from a concussion. Making sure you are wearing good and safe helmet is so crucial, it could be the determining factor between having a concussion or just a small bump. When it comes to actually finding a good helmet don't just trust a helmet if it´s a well known brand. You might think this doesn't make much sense, people usually assume that if a brand is well known or more expensive you will get more for your money. There are many different kinds of helmets that protect different parts of your brain with more support for a certain sport, so if someone tells you about this great helmet you would most likely try it even if it's for a complete other sport. When you go to buy a helmet try to find one…

some degree of head injury every year in the United States alone.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 1.7 million people in the United States have a traumatic brain injury each year. Brain injury can be defined as something that isn’t hereditary, degenerative, or present at birth that causes damage to the brain. The most common types of brain injury are traumatic brain injury, concussion, and stroke. Brain injuries cause “changes in metabolism and function of…

IV. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy Another major facet of sports-related concussions is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) as it’s considered to be a gradual neurodegeneration due to repeated mTBI (Gavett et al., 2011). Since there are many high-contact sports (such as football, hockey, boxing, etc.) as well as high chances of accidental injury in non-contact sports – repeated head injuries are very common (Gavett et al., 2011). This is another reason sports-related concussions…

Chris Stephan was your average high school student. He was seventeen, popular, athlete, and he loved spending time with his friends, until his life took a dramatic change of course. Chris was in a severe car accident that left him in a coma. Chris was so heavily injured that “Any little thing that Chris has been able to relearn or accomplish has been celebrated with joy and renewed with happiness.” Chris’s diagnosis was a “diffuse axonal brain injury” which means that his brain was not able to…

Dear University of Maryland Athletic Department, A person experiences a traumatic brain injury when there is an impact or sudden motion that brings the head to an abrupt stop, slamming the brain into the skull. This injury is known as coup-contrecoup. When the brain starts to bounce back and forth inside of the head then that part of the brain that hits the skull will be damaged, meaning the brain is injured on direct impact. When the brain bounces back to the opposite side of the skull then…

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability around the world. Every year, about 1.7 million people in the United States suffer head injuries, leading to 275,000 hospitalizations and 52,000 deaths (Curry, Viernes & Sharma, 2011). According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2015), falls among children and elderly are the leading cause of TBI, accounting for 40% of all TBI in the United States, whereas young adult males in motor vehicle…

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, with approximately 2 million reported TBI events in the US annually. The pathology of TBI is a highly complex process with both initial mechanical injury and delayed mechanisms. Primary injuries directly damage the neurons, axons, dendrites, glia and blood vessels in a focal, multifocal, or diffuse pattern. Primary injuries initiate a secondary, dynamic series of complex cellular, inflammatory, mitochondrial,…

games, such as, rugby, American Football or Ice Hockey can likewise be ruthless. Society was a great deal less brutal sixty or seventy years earlier when the kids were often instructed to box at school. That way they figured out how to control their hostility and to keep brutality in the ring. However, Boxing is not at all like whatever other game. The point of boxing is to hurt the other man, or more all to take him out. The game speaks to the most terrible and most fierce parts of human…

In many places inside the United States rodeo is a very big deal. Watching a person with an animal that’s showing every big of strength and speed God gave them can be the most amazing thing in the world. One of these most terrifying sports in rodeo is bull riding. Bull riding is where a man get onto the back of an animal that weights up to a ton and a half tying himself onto death and nodding his head to go into the most terrifying eight seconds of his life. Many people love to watch this sport…

Head injury constitutes a major cause of death in our country particularly in young and active persons. 1 person dies of head injury in every minute in India. Prevention, early and proper treatment will make a significant effect in reducing the morbidity and mortality due to head injury. DEFINITION: Injuries causing functional and/ or structural damage to the brain constitutes head injury and not just any injury causing damage to head and scalp region. Head injury can alter the functional status…