Focal and diffuse brain injury

As almost any athlete, will tell you, it’s easy to begin a new fitness routine or adopt a new workout technique. The difficult part, however, is actually reaching the goals set and taking your performance to the next level. Sports training is a physically and mentally demanding task that’s filled with countless pitfalls and lots of frustrations. But what if new technology could make the effort easier for athletes? The key might be to make sports training smarter - technologically, smarter that…

Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease, and a chronic condition, which means it progressively gets worse overtime. There is a substance called myelin that wraps around your nerves to protect them, but MS breaks down that substance, and your body attacks itself. The unprotected nerves can't function as they would with normal healthy myelin. The damaged nerves produce many symptoms. Some symptoms include; trouble walking, feeling tired, muscle weakness, blurred vision, numbness and tingling…

Players Had Brain Disease Linked To Head Trauma - By Souria Torres 10/05/17 Most football players as long as they could remember had been in football, Since the age of 5 that's all they knew. While many parents see no problem with this, it can damage the player for life without them even knowing about it until they're dead!! Terrifying right? In 2008, A new brain disease had surfaced. Now not so new now we know that a child 12 years and younger has a higher chance of developing the brain…

against skull fractures, but they are useless in preventing further brain damage. Research by Guskiewicz and Mihalik (2011), state that “sport-related concussion typically results from forces directly imparted to the head or indirectly through the neck, resulting in a combination of rapid acceleration and deceleration. Such forces create linear and/or rotational acceleration/deceleration on the brain.” This movement of the brain back and forth is commonly referred to as slosh (Guskiewicz &…

Are football players getting hurt to much? Football is one of the hardest hitting sports in the world. There are 300 pound beast running full speed at each other delivering a blow that would literally blast through walls, and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if they hit heads that's going to hurt. CTE is a form of disease which is found in people who got hit really hard in the head. So this is what the players have later in their life. They first stages aren't that bad but they can…

A BACK SPECIALIST CAN HELP WITH CHRONIC BACK PAIN What is chronic back pain The majority of people will experience some back pain in their lifetime and will usually get better on its own within three months. Chronic pain is described as pain that last for more than three months. There is nothing more discouraging than to realize you may be in pain for the rest of your life, relying of pain medications just to get through the day. Today, there are many treatment options available, but before…

this point, they will misidentify or forget family members. emotional changes start to become disturbing since due to their mental state they are unable to channel their energies into productive activities.the emotional changes can be due in part to brain chemistry and the patient’s psychological reaction to the current circumstances. The will begin to show purposeless behaviors such as fidgeting.f the patient’s fear of being alone frustration and shame regarding their circumstance frustration…

Although we do not yet fully understand their origin or their impact, the platelets and tangles of proteins that form in the brain appear to be playing a crucial role in degrading neural connections and ultimately killing neurons. Plaques are deposits of protein building up between neurons. Tangled are twisted fibres of protein building up inside neurons. They form naturally as…

health and injury in sport, as well as educate individuals on player safety (“NFL Makes $100m Pledge to Increase Research into Concussion”, 2016; Johnson, 2016). In addition, according to the NFL Player Association this the leading health concern in football (Johnson, 2016). The “Football Players Health Study” at Harvard University focuses on new ways of diagnosing and treating such injuries (Johnson, 2016). This has resulted in a potential advancement regarding Tau protein in the brain…

article Science Daily, “previous research has suggested that cholinergic input to the amygdala appears to strengthen emotional memories.” Memory that could be tuned, providing dreadful memories or dementia can be erased furthermore gone from the human’s brain. Enhancing the significant memories that everybody would love facing, as well by keeping their memories forever. Therefore individuals with post – traumatic stress disorder, dementia or even Alzheimer’s disease wouldn’t suffer anymore.…