Focal and diffuse brain injury

`It's important to understand the complexity of the human brain. The human brain weighs only three pounds but is estimated to have about 100 billion cells. It is hard to get a handle on a number that large (or connections that small). Let's try to get an understanding of this complexity by comparing it with something humans have created--the entire phone system for the planet. If we took all the phones in the world and all the wires (there are over four billion people on the planet), the number…

A new bride suffers retrograde amnesia after a traumatic brain injury and loses the memory of ever having met her husband in this romantic drama based on actual events. Paige suffers a traumatic brain injury in a car accident that results in retrograde amnesia. She awakens in a hospital room having lost several years of her life, and the memory of ever having met Leo and marrying him. Leo attempts to remind Paige of their relationship and reclaim their life prior to the car accident. Although…

people associate football as a dangerous sport and some injuries can be career and even life-ending. When football first started as a sport in the early 1900s, there was no knowledge about the impact of the physicality needed and endured throughout games. Because of the constant body-slamming, brain injuries have become more and more common with football players. This has sparked a movement to create a safer game of football and treat injuries more seriously than they used to. In my research…

Brian’s simple night out ended with him acquiring a traumatic brain injury or TBI, which would forever alter his life as he knew it. The effects of a traumatic brain injury can vary from mild to severe, based upon both the location of the injury and the severity of the shock. Individuals with a mild TBI can experience headaches, confusion, blurred vision, fatigue, and changes in mood and behavior. However severe traumatic brain injuries, such as in Brian’s case, can cause nausea, seizures,…

In “What is the Safest Sprint Starting Position for American Football Players?” by the authors Bruno Bonnechere , Benoit Beyer, Marcel Rooze and Jan Serge Van Sint studied concussions in football at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Their objective was to evaluate the safety of the three sprint starting positions. The lack of safety in American Football has caused many athletes to receive concussions. Concussions have been linked with, “[I]nduc[ing] neuropsychological and cognitive…

departments with a traumatic brain injury. Journal Pediatrics, in ‘Report: Pressure On Teen Athletes Soars’ by WCPO, said, “Teen athletes between 14 and 19 years old apparently had increased emergency rooms for concussions went up from 7,000 to almost 22,000 a year.” Then, some of these kids could keep playing without telling anyone they got hurt, by playing with an injury they make themselves more susceptible to a bigger injury. Plus, in high school the most common injury for football are the…

to your left you can see all of the safety equipment that you will be used to keep you safe. At the bottom you can see all of the equipment and how it will help guard your body into fuller detail. HELMETS The brain is a very important part of the body And getting a concussion or head injury could be life threatenging so It is important to always be wearing a head guard. There are many different types of head guards to choose from. By wearing a helment during boarding your head…

Presbycusis Hearing loss associated with the aging process, presbycusis, involves all things that lead to hearing loss in elderly people. Presbycusis commonly affects an individual’s ability to understand speech in noisy environments, process acoustic information, and localize sound sources. A large proportion of the elderly population over seventy years and older suffer from presbycusis (Lin, Thorpe, Gordan-Salant, & Ferrucci, 2011). The elderly population is at a high risk of developing a…

and distress” (Swayne). This negative effect is based off the mind, such as confusion or distress, while other negative effects can be based off the body such as injury or harm to oneself. “Dementia patients’ inability to consent and their confused responses lead to yet another reason to tread carefully in this area: the potential for injury” (Swayne). From my introduction, the alzheimer’s patient who began to move around with joy, may have been able to accidentally hurt himself if he had fallen…

is it that the reward outweighs the risks of people getting hurt. Most of the concussions on little kids come from kids hitting others the wrong way. Football can get a lot of people hurt, like concussions can put people into hospitals or serious brain problems. Kids should not play football, kids are risking possibly there life just so they can be like their friends of favorite football players. “The article states that several NFL players have stated that the game is so dangerous and risky…