Focal and diffuse brain injury

how it must feel to get hit in the head so hard, that the diagnosis is a concussion; a bruise of the brain; truly traumatizing, isn’t it? When is getting a concussion alright for you, is it okay when you’re young and your neck and brain are still in development or when you’re older and your body is all beat up and used; which one? Definition of Concussion: Acceleration and/or deceleration of the brain within the skull (Collins). Symptoms of Concussions: Physical symptoms - headaches, nausea,…

A concussion is a brain injury characterized by an onset of impairment of cognitive and/or physical functioning. Even though concussions are considered "invisible injuries", they are still very serious head injuries that can have long lasting affects even 30 years later. Athletes shouldn't be able to participate in any physical activity until they are evaluated and signed off by a medical professional not just signed off by their coach. Concussions are serious head injuries that can affect a…

Student athletes, with a concussion, or any other traumatic head injury need to sit out of participating longer to let the brain fully heal. If this happens to occur to you, you're at a greater chance for a concussion. Any kind of trauma to the head is dangerous, if you get a concussion you need to stay out longer; you must be completely functional in able for you to return. This is because many athletes are obtaining long term brain damage due to them returning to the field of play before…

Sports-related injuries provide a combination of extensive and inevitable problem as they are responsible for up to 25% of severe eye injuries worldwide. Eye injuries from blunt forces and penetrating objects may cause morbidity, disability, and blindness. Most of these injuries are preventable if and only if the information regarding the detail of injury is available. Each sport induces its own injury to the eye owing to variation in the ball’s size, speed, and mechanical properties. Although…

net. But when people are not careful, they can really injure yourself. Three common injuries are eye injuries, concussions, and mouth injuries. Eye injuries are very common. They usually occur when someone is hit in the eye with fingers, elbows, and possibly the ball itself. (Moms Team, N/A) But luckily, many injuries are minor and almost none required surgery. Also, less than 10% were major. Of course eye injuries would be common, with all that kicking, pushing, shoving and hitting, and the…

There are many types of brain structures that could be affected by a concussion, and cause minor or serious damage to the brain and cranium which could lead to long-term effect or temporary effects. A couple I have found are the occipital lobes, the frontal lobes and the parietal lobes. The occipital lobes are located in the back of the head, if the concussion hit the back of the cranium then this would cause damage to the occipital lobes. Therefore, resulting in damage to your vision, because…

The video Big Hits, Broken Dreams revolved around Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injuries of high school football athletes. It is something that athletes are all too familiar with on a daily basis. Just one single hit could end up being more fatal than anyone would think about. Concussions are very common with those who play rigorous sports because of the constant person-to-person contact or even contact of the object they play with, like a football. One issue with this is the idea of do the…

of a collision, and therefore increase the effective mass of their head. Adults do not have this problem. • Water content: the younger individual’s brain is still developing, so it is hypothesized that “differences in glutamate receptor expression, expression of aquaporin 4 by microglia, and brain water” make it more susceptible to brain injuries and swelling when compared to adults (Meehan et al. 3). • Vasculature: younger individuals…

activity involved in football, one cannot rule out the possibility OJ could have suffered a concussion, could this typical injury could have turned the man America loved into a cold hearted murder suspect? Concussions are typical injury experienced by high contact sports such as football, soccer, volleyball and many others. They occur when a high impact sport causes a “Complex brain injury….that affects numerous body functions” (Shroyer 1) Symptoms of a concussion can be varied depending on the…

general term for brain dysfunction and can include a number of syndromes and diseases (Hockenberry & Wilson, 2015). Specifically, traumatic encephalopathy is the result of trauma or force to the head, which is what occurred to patient J.M. However, encephalopathy can also be caused secondary to infections, anoxia, metabolic problems, and drugs (Hockenberry & Wilson, 2015). In this case, forceful trauma to the head can cause further brain damage due to bleeding in and around the brain. If…