How to File Successful Whiplash Claims Whiplash is a term that most people have heard from time to time. It is a term that is often associated with an accident where vehicles are involved. Though many have heard the term, they may not be aware of what whiplash actually is. Whiplash is an injury that is caused when an individual’s head or neck is jerked quickly in a forward or backward motion. This jerking motion can result in a stretched or torn muscle or tendon in the neck.…
A concussion is an injury to the brain. It can be caused by a blow to the head, or any movement that shakes the brain inside the skull. The brain is a soft organ surrounded by spinal fluid and protected by a hard skull. Normally the fluid acts like a cushion for the brain, but if the blow is hard enough, the brain can crash into the skull and be damaged. Some common symptoms that you could experience after having a concussion would be headaches, blurred vision, and sensitivity to light and noise.…
Although, the symptoms of phantom pain cause more physical distress, phantom sensation can equally cause emotional distress in the patient. It is evident that chances of experiencing pain in the phantom limb increase if the individual experienced pain prior to the amputation (Flor, 2002). For example, if an individual has a melanoma in their leg and after several operations, doctors have failed to completely cut it out, the patient may decide to amputate the leg before the cancer can spread. It is therefore, suggested that the patient’s chances of experiencing chronic phantom pain increases as they would have experienced continuous pain after a few prior operations. However, when people that are born without a limb report similar phantom sensation,…
The shot being referred to throughout this essay is that between 01:42:05 and 01:44:17 of Hitchcock’s psychological thriller film Vertigo. Before this shot takes place, we ,along with John ‘Scottie’ Ferguson, have been lead to believe that Madeline Elster committed suicide, jumping out of the church bell tower at Mission San Juan Bautista. In the time following the suicide, Scottie becomes emotionally unstable and blames Madeline death on himself, his acrophobia holding his back from climbing the stairs to stop her from jumping. During this time, he is constantly reminded of her in his everyday life until one day his eye is caught by a woman who reminds him of Madeline, despite their difference in appearance and follows her up to her apartment…
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 film Vertigo is now considered by the American Film Institute to be the best film of all time. With that title comes some flack for “beating” out all of the other films that come out ever. Obviously this title is subjective and doesn’t make the film anymore better or meaningful than it previously was, but the backlash from film critics are kind of ironic being about Vertigo. People are writing article after article and blog post after blog post about how Vertigo doesn’t deserve to be on the top of the list and that they or they collective group knows what the “best” film ever is. Wanting Citizen Kane back on top of cinema.…
Concussed Football /ˈfo͝otˌbôl/- a form of team game played in North America with an oval ball on a field marked out as a gridiron. Football is a fast paced, action packed, hard hitting game. Football is one of the most popular sports in North America. Football was my passion and I played on a team since 4th grade… that is, until I got a concussion during a game in 8th grade. How I got my concussion.…
Fall Prevention in Hospitals, Adult WHAT ARE SOME SAFETY TIPS FOR PREVENTING FALLS? If you or a loved one has to stay in the hospital, talk to the health care providers about the risk of falling. Find out which medicines or treatments can cause dizziness or affect balance. Make a plan with the health care providers to prevent falls.…
Symptoms that you could have a concussion could be dizziness, headaches, imbalance, confusion, memory loss, loss of consciousness, vision change, hearing change, mood change, and fatigue. All of these symptoms could become a major problem in your lifetime. If you have imbalance you could potentially fall and hurt yourself even worse and it could take longer to recover from. If you have a headache you would be unable to continue or focus on your work at school, place of business, or other important events. Memory loss could cause misunderstandings or unnecessary arguments.…
The word “concussion” derives from the Latin verb concutere which means “to shake violently. To put it simply, a concussion can be described as; a blow to the head which in turn creates a plethora of physical and cognitive symptoms. Knowing general information about concussions is common. People understand how they happen and how to take care of them. They understand that it has something to do with hitting your head and moving your brain.…
A concussion is a disease that affects the brain from a dramatic force towards the head, which causes the brain to move around in the skull. Many times the brain hits the skull, which leads to a bruise and thus bleeding. In addition, a concussion can cause people to suffer memory loss, headaches, nausea, and bad balance, etc. Most concussions are ranked as mild, because concussions cannot be life threatening. Because of the continuing brain growth, younger people hold more risk whenever obtaining a concussion.…
Section 1: One paragraph (approximately half a page) summary of the information presented in the article or video In The Brain Changes Itself, the chapter titled “A Woman Perpetually Falling” is a case example of a woman that feels that she is constantly falling due to the damage of her vestibular system that controls her sense of balance. Cheryl Schiltz, a 50 year old women that contracted a bacterial infection following a hysterectomy and was treated with gentamicin. With excessive use of gentamicin can damage the semicircular canals, three joined structured in the inner ear which gives us a sense of balance and provide our body with information about orientation and movement of our body in space. Cheryl vestibular system is severely damage which makes her constantly felt like she is falling over. Paul Bach y Rita, a professor at University of Wisconsin Medical School and his team have developed a…
These happen all the time when you see people getting hit in the head hard and people say wow that’s was a good hit. The person that got hit maybe suffering from a concussion which will make people feel confused and unconscious. Sometimes you may not even be knocked unconscious to get a concussion. How a concussion starts. First, someone must be struck in the head hard, the person's brain then must slide and slam into the front and back…
Essential Tremor A tremor is trembling or shaking that you cannot control. Most tremors affect the hands or arms. Tremors can also affect the head, vocal cords, face, and other parts of the body. Essential tremor is a tremor without a known cause.…
Strokes are the third leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for 140,000 deaths each year in the U.S., and over 5 million worldwide. They are caused by blood clots or vessel ruptures in the brain, causing the death of the surrounding brain cells. There are two types of strokes: ischemic strokes and hemorrhagic strokes. Ischemic strokes are caused by blot clots that form in the brain, called thrombotic strokes, or form in other body parts and travel to the brain, called embolic strokes. This type of stroke accounts for 87% of all stroke cases.…
There are many symptoms that may lead someone to think that you may have a concussion. This leads to you going to the doctor and getting diagnosed and treated which brings you to having a successful…