Introduction
Brain injuries where something my parents worried about when I was growing because I played numerous physical sports; I didn’t worry about the repercussions of high impact sports or what could have happened. Now as a professional educator I worry about my student’s educational ability due to a brain injury they may acquire or may have been born with. Why is a brain injury so important for educators to recognize? What happens to that child in the classroom after sustaining a brain injury? Does it affect only the student’s metal or physical abilities?
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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is defined when the brain is disrupted from its normal function by a blow to head, jolt to the head, or a penetrating head injury. (Sports-related Head Injury, 2014) This is when the brain bounces around the inside of the skill like a pinball machine. Imagine if you had a medium ball of play-doe and you place this item into a hamster ball; now shake the hamster ball as hard as you can a few times. After several shakes, retrieve the play-doe and place it on the table. Ideally this example was to simulate what happens when fragile brain tissue is pounded into skull. …show more content…
This leads to different parts of the brain moving at different rates, which the force for the impact can stretch and tear nerve tissue. (Menon, 2015) When this occurs, it can throw off the balance of ion and chemicals to the brain that can damage nerve cell functions. Fiber nerve cell can eventually heal but if they are severely injured this could lead to permanently loose of their ability to send signals and communicate with other brain cells. (Menon,
Brain injuries where something my parents worried about when I was growing because I played numerous physical sports; I didn’t worry about the repercussions of high impact sports or what could have happened. Now as a professional educator I worry about my student’s educational ability due to a brain injury they may acquire or may have been born with. Why is a brain injury so important for educators to recognize? What happens to that child in the classroom after sustaining a brain injury? Does it affect only the student’s metal or physical abilities?
Body
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is defined when the brain is disrupted from its normal function by a blow to head, jolt to the head, or a penetrating head injury. (Sports-related Head Injury, 2014) This is when the brain bounces around the inside of the skill like a pinball machine. Imagine if you had a medium ball of play-doe and you place this item into a hamster ball; now shake the hamster ball as hard as you can a few times. After several shakes, retrieve the play-doe and place it on the table. Ideally this example was to simulate what happens when fragile brain tissue is pounded into skull. …show more content…
This leads to different parts of the brain moving at different rates, which the force for the impact can stretch and tear nerve tissue. (Menon, 2015) When this occurs, it can throw off the balance of ion and chemicals to the brain that can damage nerve cell functions. Fiber nerve cell can eventually heal but if they are severely injured this could lead to permanently loose of their ability to send signals and communicate with other brain cells. (Menon,